Water

The insurance industry is increasingly aware of the emerging challenges associated with disasters and climate change. An emphasis on loss and damage by itself runs the risk of limiting this risk to being reactive and compensatory as opposed to promoting

This assessment aims to summarize the collected evidence, analytics, and recommendations and to provide an overview of the status of hydrological information and service delivery systems, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. While

According to new research, as the climate changes for the worse over much of the semi-arid regions of India, the increasing demand for irrigation could lead to dry wells even if there is better groundwater recharge. Smallholders are especially at risk, as many do not have access to the needed finance, technologies and knowledge to cope with climate change.

Experts in Houston are considering establishing floodwater funnels that lead to an underground tunnel system, which will whisk rainstorms away to the Houston Ship Channel. However, it is still difficult to determine whether such a tunnel system would have greatly minimized the historic flooding Houston saw in 2017.

This Convention establishes agreement between all signing parties to mitigate pollution impacts on transboundary waters and to ensure the ecological integrity of transboundary waters, all the while guaranteeing that waters are used reasonably and

Tens of thousands of survivors of Kenya's worst floods in recent years are living with barely enough food to eat two months after the disaster. While water levels have receded and many people have returned home, aid workers in the worst affected region of Tana River county say most of those displaced were still living in camps with little means of survival.

Studies have shown dams can create numerous small pools of standing water in which malaria-transmitting mosquitoes breed. Smart dam design is necessary, and using remote sensing, scientists can now determine the perimeter of reservoirs created by dams, taking into account the role that rainfall, temperature and shoreline slopes will play in malaria transmission.

Malaria transmission – associated with morbidity, mortality and constraining economic development – has been reduced by more than 40% in Africa in the twenty-first century. Large dams, essential to achieving Africa’s development goals, have nonetheless