World Water Week News // WASH Media Award: Six journalists win prestigious media awards geared towards improving reporting on water, sanitation and hygiene
Media in general and journalists in particular are key partners for sanitation, hygiene and water sector professionals in their awareness raising,…
Publication // Large-scale Water Storage in the Water, Energy and Food Nexus. Perspectives on Benefits, Risks and Best Practices
The paper provides an overview of the current status of large scale artificial water storage development and its functions in the water, energy and…
The Guardian // To solve climate change, let's move beyond climate change
Water, energy, food - these three issues are the essential holy trinity of environmental sustainability. They are maddeningly intertwined and their…
Video // The Global Resource Nexus: An Overview
Transatlantic Academy Senior Fellow Philip Andrews-Speed, gives a brief introduction to the 2011-2012 Collaborative Report " The Global Resource…
Ghana Business News // AfDB approves EUR 690,000 African Water Facility grant for Kenyan pastoralists
The Kenya project is one of six case studies conducted in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda designed to evaluate the performance of rainwater…
World Water Week Stockholm 2012 // FAO Programme @ Stockholm 2012
This year, the overarching theme of the World Water Week in Stockholm is Water and Food Security. Feeding the world population in the future with…
Reading List // IISD: Water-Energy-Food Nexus
IISD Library has started to compile a list of resources on research on the water-energy-food nexus.
Money Morning // Economist Richard Duncan: Civilization May Not Survive "Death Spiral"
Richard Duncan, formerly of the World Bank and chief economist at Blackhorse Asset Mgmt., says America's $16 trillion federal debt has escalated into…
New York Times // Corn for Food, Not Fuel
The price of corn is a critical variable in the world food equation, and food markets are on edge because American corn supplies are plummeting. The…
Publication // Climate change, water stress, conflict and migration
The presentations during the conference on climate change, water, conflict and migration, held on 21 September 2011 in The Hague, the Netherlands,…
ecoCENTRIC // Drought and the Food, Water and Energy Nexus
What a difference a year makes. Last spring, farmers along the Mississippi River watched in horror as the Army Corps of Engineers blew up levees to…
Messages for Rio // New Drivers for Sustainable Urban Development - Key Messages on Green Urban Economy from Bonn to Rio
Three focal areas need to be addressed for a transition to a Green Urban Economy, which promotes environmental well-being and improved quality of…
GrowingBlue // Blue is the new green
A survey of leaders at this year's World Economic Forum in Davos revealed that, for the first time, water-related risks are among the top 5 concerns…
The Guardian // Live blog from Oxford University: food, water and energy for all
Jo Confino blogs live from the high level Resource sustainability conference at Oxford University's Smith School, which is looking at new ways to…
Video // Investment opportunities in energy, water and food security
James Cameron of Climate Change Capital on the investment opportunities in the NEXUS