Blogs

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Protecting Environmental Water from Antimicrobial Resistance

Improving antimicrobial resistance-related water quality standards will be essential to protecting the health of half a billion people worldwide.

26 Jan 2022

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New Tools to Map Flood Risk Will Help Bring Disaster Planning Up to Date

A new flood mapping tool and forthcoming artificial intelligence-driven models will generate current and future flood risk maps.

07 Dec 2021

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Data Drought in the Global South

The Global South is in need of developing the ability to generate quality and actionable data to overcome development challenges.

08 Nov 2021

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Where on Earth is a Water-secure World?

Water security standards must be more clearly defined and quantified, and need to relate directly to the number, type, and scale of problems.

27 Oct 2021

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Needed in the Global South: Wastewater Collection for COVID-19 Detection

Monitoring wastewater for COVID-19 provides real-time insight into viral spread, enabling timely preventative and coping measures.

05 Oct 2021

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Water Scarcity: Coming Soon

An urgent paradigm shift of water management and use is needed to ensure global taps don't run dry sooner than we expect.

05 Aug 2021

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Water: A Matter of Survival in the World of Pandemics

With the pandemic negatively impacting SDGs achievement, intense focus is needed on the world’s most chronic water, sanitation, and hygiene problems.

08 Jul 2021

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Climate Crisis: Elephants in the Room are Getting Nastier

Increasing climate change-induced food insecurity and human displacement highlight the necessity to modernise existing policies and platforms.

01 Jun 2021

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Rethinking Water-Migration Interlinkages Within the Context of the COVID-19 Crisis

In a time of compounding disease outbreaks, it is vital to understand the connections between conflict, migration, and water, sanitation, and hygiene.

11 Dec 2020