Water

The WMO is revamping its strategy on water in order to face up to the unprecedented challenges posed by hazards. WMO formally assumed the direction of the World Water Data Initiative, given that better data is key to better management of water. It also launched a new innovation call from the WMO HydroHub facility to support operational hydrology.

With increasingly extreme weather, Zimbabwe has released three climate change policies: the Child Friendly Climate Policy is designed to educate school children about climate change; the Climate Smart Agriculture Policy focuses on ensuring farmers adopt climate-friendly practices; and the National Climate Policy aims to implement greener legal structures.

The ADB has approved a $6.5 million grant as additional financing for the ongoing efforts to improve water resources management in the Pyanj River Basin. The grant will help expand the scope of the current Water Resources Management to include capacity building and institutional development of the State Agency for Hydrometeorology of Tajikistan (Hydromet).

New research warns that India's rainfall patterns are changing, with various areas experiencing either less or more average rainfall, which could trigger either floods or droughts. This change threatens food and water security, exacerbating the current water stress.

Adaptation to water insecurity can create valuable opportunities to redress imbalances in decision-making power between men and women. When it comes to the issue of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), an SEI project in Burkina Faso is developing a new Empowerment in WASH Index that aims to identify imbalances and measure successes.

According to a new study, even “modest” action to limit climate change could help prevent the most extreme water-shortage scenarios facing Asia by the year 2050. Fighting climate change along the lines of the 2015 Paris Agreement would reduce by around 60 million the number of people facing severe water problems.

This report presents a self-consistent risk-based assessment of water availability and use under future climate change and socioeconomic growth by midcentury across southern and eastern Asia (SEA).

The Technical Report presents the work done by UCCRN for the Future We Don’t Want project. The Report contains results from the data analysis of six major global urban vulnerabilities to climate change based on several key hazards, as well as case studies