PARIS, France, March 22, 2024 (ENS) – Tensions over access to clean water are aggravating conflicts worldwide, finds the United Nations World Water Development Report 2024, just published by ...
The world needs to better manage its freshwater resources but thirsty new technologies touted as solutions could lead to “serious problems” if left unchecked, a UN report warned. Roughly half ...
Climate change and poor planning are causing major water scarcity crises in multiple cities and regions around the world, and the United Nations is warning that tensions over water are worsening ...
The UN labour organization warned Monday that over 70% of the world's workforce is likely to be exposed to excessive heat ...
Paritosh Kasotia is an International Program Manager at the Iowa Council for International Understanding. She is also President of the United Nations Association-Des Moines Chapter. The ...
Some 800,000 people in a Sudanese city are in 'extreme and immediate danger' as worsening violence advances and threatens to ...
Britain's Thames Water said on Monday it would spend an extra 1.1 billion pounds ($1.4 billion) on tackling sewage spills and ...
Antonio Guterres says war is being waged on the Sudanese people, warns of escalating unrest in el-Fasher, Darfur.
Waterborne diseases are spreading in Gaza due to a lack of clean water and rising temperatures, the United Nations ...
The northwest Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has issued a flood alert because of glacial melting and warned of a ...
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday painted a dark picture of the situation in the Middle East, warning that ...
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is calling for “urgent de-escalation” of hostilities in a phone conversation with ...