Water

In 2018, a cholera outbreak hit four regions in Niger, where nearly 4000 cases were reported. The EU subsequently provided humanitarian aid to support the provision of free medical treatment and awareness-raising campaigns. In a matter of days, ALIMA, a medical NGO, set up a cholera treatment centre that was operational for four months until the epidemic ended.

A new report reveals that water flows in the Murray Darling river system have failed to improve under an AUD 13 billion rescue plan and, in some cases, have become worse. The research indicates that the Murray-Darling Basin Plan is floundering, which is due to state governments in New South Wales and Victoria failing to deliver on water flow promises.

The Millennium Drought prompted higher reliance on desalination plants among Australian capitals, but came with massive design, construction, and maintenance costs, as well as major electricity consumption, even when idle. Now that drought has returned to the southeast and cities are reactivating their plants, governments can expect to incur steep bills.

The Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists has conducted a study to fill a gap in publicly available research that evaluates whether environmental water recovery has led to observable increases in river flows at two key sites along the Murray-Darling

As climate change brings worse extreme weather that increases groundwater salinity and stresses health systems, worsening women's lives, female villagers in Odisha are raising their voices through Self Help Groups. The organisation has formed eleven councils to allow women to share the impact of weather-related disasters on their livelihoods and discuss solutions.

The Venezuelan government's inability to manage its strained water resources during the 2013-2016 drought, which was described as the worst in 40 years, worsened existing water, food and energy shortages. With a restless public condemning the government's mismanagement, the drought will have played a part if Maduro's administration falls during the current crisis.

The Future Resilience for African CiTies And Lands project is bringing together various city stakeholders in a series of “Learning Labs” in southern African cities to co-explore how to address systemic risk issues. Learning Labs have provided new and innovative spaces to collaborate and build relationships where lines of communication have not yet existed.

Several Himalayan spring-fed rivers are in danger of drying up because deforestation, prompted by poorly planned urbanization, has prevented trees from holding rainwater and later releasing it to them. Overextraction of groundwater and climate change impacts have also exacerbated the drying, but local women are taking action by replanting trees.