Water

The Mara River Basin (MRB), home to over a million people across Kenya and Tanzania, also supports critical wildlife populations in the renowned conservation areas of the Masai Mara National Reserve and Serengeti National Park. The basin is facing

New research from Concordia University will analyse weather and environmental variabilities in Canada and their effect on natural and socioeconomic resources. The hope is that the outcome of the study will be beneficial for creating management strategies to reduce the impacts of climate change and extreme weather.

The management of transboundary waters in increasingly becoming more challenging, and climate change is likely to exacerbate these pressures. Not least because climate change is a global issue, adaptation will require an international response.

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Recent human-interface wildfires around the world have raised concerns regarding the reliability of freshwater supply flowing from severely burned watersheds. Degraded source water quality can often be expected after severe wildfire and can pose

A GreenSource initiative has installed nine football fields across South Africa in an effort to combat the country's water scarcity. The fields can store and clean up to 17 million litres of rainwater annually, while children use them to play. Each field provides water to an estimated 2,400 individuals.

After the 2015 Nepal earthquakes, a number of initiatives are now in place to better prepare the country for similar disasters in the future, including a Disaster Management Act, new building codes, and reconstruction of houses and sanitary installations.

As climate change takes hold, India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands are seeing more irregular rainfall. This, combined with the fact that the coastal soil is thin and struggles to absorb much water, has forced local farmers to find ways to adapt, for example by planting vegetables and fruits instead of rice.

Panii Jibon (Water is Life) is an initiative led by the HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation and implemented in collaboration with its local partners. The project aims to address water-related threats and vulnerabilities of an already-impoverished population