The Magpie River has become the first in Canada to be granted legal personhood rights, part of a growing global movement pushing for the Rights of Nature to be legally…
Adapting to Climate Change Impact on Water Resources in the Andes (AICCA), a collaborative initiative between Bolivia, Peru, Colombia and Ecuador, seeks to improve the interdependence between agriculture and natural…
Ceres’ Valuing Water Finance Taskforce and the World Bank’s 2030 Water Resource Group, among others, are acting together to address water as a systemic risk to business, people, and biodiversity….
With long dry spells and short wet periods, water availability is become increasingly unpredictable. This has had an impact in the cost of water and hence we now see instances…
COVID-19 has illuminated the life or death importance hygiene and sanitation around the world. While people have been dying due to lack of hygiene and sanitation since the beginning of…
In December, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange started trading a new ticker for futures tied to the Nasdaq Veles California Water Index – NQH20. This is a big step forward in…
The Mar Menor, Europe’s largest saltwater lagoon set in Murcia, Spain, has been a victim of what many refer to as “ecocide”: deliberate human activity that violates the main rules…
Farmers and workers in northern Mexico have ambushed National Guard soldiers and seized a dam to stop water payments to the US. With ever-decreasing rainfall and rising temperatures, the exchange…
Isla Urbana, an interdisciplinary group of designers, urbanists, engineers, anthropologists, educators and artists, aims to build a water-responsible culture in communities across Mexico by integrating education and community empowerment with the installation of rainwater harvesting (RWH) systems.
According to researchers from the Environment Agency Austria, microplastics have been found in human stools for the first time. The study showed that all 8 of the participants from Russia,…
A Greenpeace East Asia study of 39 brands of table salts from all over the world revealed that 36 contained plastics. The South Korean research team noted that the density…
A recent report shows that more than 7% of the world’s oceans and 15% of the land now have protected status, taking us closer to the goal of creating nature…
