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Displaying 4 of about 4 resultsBy Claudia Sadoff and Mark Smith
Water is essential for drinking, sanitation, and food production; for billions of people, however, water access and quality are limited. The COVID-19 pandemic has further amplified the impacts of these water inequalities. Claudia Sadoff and Mark Smith of the International Water Management Institute assess the…
By Claudia Sadoff, Director general of the International Water Management Institute and Mark Smith, Deputy director general, International Water Management Institute
To survive the coronavirus pandemic and minimize the adverse impacts of future shocks, we must address global water insecurity and inequality now.
June 4, 2020 — COVID-19 has, like n…
The COVID-19 health crisis has caused wide-ranging socio-economic disruption worldwide. This has exposed and aggravated existing social imbalances. The pandemic has called for unprecedented measures to protect those so close to our heart: our parents, grandparents, the elderly and vulnerable. Taking a risk management perspective, this crisis has pointed…
By Christina Chan
The climate change crisis continues to create unprecedented risk for humanity. Extreme weather threatens food security, increases poverty and inequality and contributes to the spread of disease. Now, also faced with the economic fallout from COVID-19, billions of people are struggling to adapt and survive to both crises.
These threat…