Rio+twenties // Sustainable Development Goals for the New Generation
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have become a contentious proposal among Member States that are currently negotiating the outcome document…
Slides // Water, Energy, Food Nexus: A Perspective Through Eyes of Water Policy
by Dr. Jerome Delli Priscoli, Institute for Water Resources, US Army Corps of Engineers, Governor World Water Council, Editor in Chief Water Policy,…
Video // The Water-Food-Energy-Climate Nexus
The World Economic Forum's "Water Security: The Water-Food-Energy-Climate Nexus" provides a first-ever comprehensive assessment of the global water…
Water for Electricity: Resource Scarcity, Climate Change and Business in a Finite World
The need to keep climate change within safe thresholds will require rapid emission reductions, and widespread deployment of low-carbon technologies…
Publication // International Rivers' Contribution for the Rio+20 Compilation Document
International Rivers welcomes the opportunity of Rio+20 to provide input into this critical process and offers the following comment and…
National Geographic // Quiz: What You Don't Know About Food, Water, and Energy
How much energy and water go into the food you eat?
Slides // Power and the Water, Food, Energy Nexus
by Andrew Etzinger, ESKOM, held on the SAWEF Conference in South Africa
Publication // 2012 UN-Water Status Report on the Application of Integrated Approaches to Water Resources Management (Full Report)
This report, based on an analysis of data from more than 130 countries, looks at the issues that pertain to the management, development and use of…
Water-Energy Nexus // No water, no energy. No energy, no water.
The interrelationship between water and energy goes around and around. Increasing demands on water from the private and public sectors are impacting…
Policy Paper // Deliverables by UN-Water
for the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development
Economist // How to feed a planet
Why the world needs an agricultural revolution in Africa The Economist's Daily Chart
Rio+20 // The Last Push for Rio
The Rio+20 Summit is less than a month away. Policymakers and civil society representatives have been advocating for the inclusion of the nexus…
SciDev.NET // Innovation "must consider water, energy and land jointly"
More technological innovation is needed to fight growing resource scarcity, but it will only be successful in achieving sustainable development if it…
Economist // How to feed a planet, continued
Today's Daily chart, using data provided by Cargill, is the nearest thing to a snapshot of everything you need to know about feeding the world. It…
Publication // 2012 UN-Water Status Report on the Application of Integrated Approaches to Water Resources Management (Executive Summary)
This report, based on an analysis of data from more than 130 countries, looks at the issues that pertain to the management, development and use of…