EurActiv // Water Week chief: Better management, governance needed
Droughts, poor land use and water access have all contributed to recent volatility in food prices and regional food emergencies. To address such…
Scoping the Water-Energy-Pollution Nexus in Urumqi and Qingdao
A Preparation of China's Ministry of Environmental Protection Co-Control Program - by Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Energy Live News // UN calls on nations to adopt drought policies
Michel Jarraud, WMO Secretary-General said: "Climate change is projected to increase the frequency, intensity and duration of droughts, with impacts…
Poster // Maximising the Benefits: Water, Food and Energy Matrix
by Victor Muyeba and Jackson Mulenga, Devolution Trust Fund, Zambia
Publication // Wasted: How America Is Losing Up to 40 Percent of Its Food from Farm to Fork to Landfill
Getting food from the farm to our fork eats up 10 percent of the total U.S. energy budget, uses 50 percent of U.S. land, and swallows 80 percent of…
Programme // Programme of the World Water Week 2012 - Water and Food Security
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SIWI at the World Water Week 2012 // SIWI World Water Week Programme
Increasing imbalances in the world's water and food security situation are unfolding. The differences between those who have access to plenty of…
SIWI // Feeding a Thirsty World
The World Water Week 2012 in Stockholm will zoom in on food security and the global water situation. This is warranted not least from the perspective…
AlertNet // The Battle for Water - Feeding the thirsty: Why we need integrated thinking on water and food security
The World Water Week 2012 will focus on food security and the global water situation. To bring some perspectives to that debate Stockholm…
nature // Farmers Deplete Fossil Water in World's Breadbaskets
Irrigation has helped farmers feed a population that has now reached 7 billion people. But in many places farmers have overused underground aquifers…
Arab Innova // ACWUA joins the Middle East and North Africa-Network of Water Centers of Excellence (MENA NWC)
The Arab Countries Water Utilities Association (ACWUA) has been chosen to join the MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA-NETWORK OF WATER CENTERS OF…
The Guardian // China's coal expansion may spark water crisis, warns Greenpeace
China's plan to rapidly expand large coal mines and power plants in its arid northern and western provinces threatens to drain precious water supply…
AlertNet // Experts mull global system to monitor water resources
A global system to monitor management of water resources would help governments secure food and water supplies for the future, a U.N. expert due to…
The Guardian // The world is closer to a food crisis than most people realise
Unless we move quickly to adopt new population, energy, and water policies, the goal of eradicating hunger will remain just that. Time is running…
The Guardian // Poo power celebrated as solar toilet wins sanitation prize
Human waste attracts less funding than other development projects but Reinvent the Toilet challenge recognises that better hygiene can cut healthcare…