Despite the increased attention the sixth Sustainable Development Goal (clean water and sanitation) has brought, access to water in Sub-Saharan Africa is worse than ever: there are more people without access to water now than there were in 1990.
In order to fix the problem we need to understand what’s going wrong with our current approaches. That was the aim of an Atlas Award-winning study published in Water Resources and Rural Development, by researchers at Glasgow Caledonian University in Scotland, the University of Malawi in Malawi and the University of Lusaka in Zambia. Interestingly enough, since women and school aged girls are typically tasked with water fetching, by providing water access and sanitation authors feel there is an effect on others SDG like SDG 10 (reduced inequalities), SDG 4 (quality education) and SDG 5 (gender equality)
Effective communication to citizens is of prime importance during public health crises involving water.
This paper provides a systematic study of the location choice of new polluting firms driven by the 11th Five-Year Plan's water pollution reduction mandates in China.
The expansion and operation of water supply systems under growing demands, hydrologic variability, and water scarcity requires strategic decisions on supply sources for reducing and improving relia
An international review of stormwater regulation and practices, especially for low-exposure, landscape irrigation schemes in urban environments, was undertaken with a view to identifying what could be
Urban water management via Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SuDS) has been successfully applied in cities worldwide.
Urban source separation infrastructure systems have a promising potential for a more sustainable management of household food waste and wastewaters.
The primary objective of this study is to determine what drives states to plan for the impacts of a changing climate.
This paper discusses the CO2 footprint of California's drought during 2012–2014.
The sustainability of water resources depends on the dynamic interactions among the environmental, technological, and social characteristics of the water system and local population.
