An interview with Mark Smith, Director of the IUCN Global Water Programme, and Ger Berkamp, interim Executive Director, IWA

Based on the 2005 Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA), IUCN Water developed a new diagram on ecosystem services which aims to more intuitively demonstrate the extent to which both rich and poor livelihoods are dependent on the sustainability of ecosystems and the variety of services that they provide.

The Water-Energy-Food Security Nexus is this month’s hot topic at the IWA Water Wiki in conjunction with the IWA/IUCN Nexus Dialogue on Water Infrastructure Solutions

A blog by Rebecca Welling, Project Officer with IUCN’s Global Water Programme.

From 11 until 17 March, the Post 2015 Water Thematic Consultation focuses on the water, energy and food Nexus and offers a consultation platform for everyone to engage in the discussion.

Andy Wales, Senior Vice President Sustainable Development for SABMiller, explains the water-food-energy Nexus and why is it so important.

Q&A with Dr. Rabi Mohtar, Executive Director of Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI)

An interview with Diego Rodriguez, Senior Economist and Task Team Leader TWIWA, World Bank on the World Bank Initiative “Quantifying Tradeoffs of the Water-Energy Nexus”.

The ADIREC side event focused on the various policy and technology options for meeting future energy demand and their different implications on water resources. Already, water availability is a major constraint for the energy sector.

New report: as much as 2 billion tonnes of all food produced ends up as waste. Institution of Mechanical Engineers calls on urgent action to prevent 50% of all food produced in the world ending up as waste.