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Prevent, adapt and mitigate water insecurities
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- The Task Force on Water Security and Resilience acts as a hydro-diplomatic platform of multilateral exchanges to prevent, adapt and mitigate water insecurities. The Task Force draws valuable lessons from experience of the past to shape the present governance model, adapted to environmental or local circumstances.
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Water security is precarious in conflict and disaster zones, and threats to water security are manifested through negative impacts on water resources and related ecosystems, both in...
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The impacts of these rapid changes on water availability and quality are costly. They undermine ecosystem health and the function of world-class parks and protected areas, traditional and subsistence ways of life, built infrastructure and food and energy production. The quality of drinking water supplies in rural and Indigenous communities has beco...
The federal government has raised the issue of water in its recent budget with interest in two primary areas: drinking water in Indigenous communities and the impacts of climate change on Prairie water resources. The federal government earmarked an additional $739 million in the budget to eliminate drinking-water advisories on reserves. Since 2015,...
Most water management decisions are made locally through provincial and Indigenous jurisdictions. Yet the majority of our major river and lake basins straddle boundaries and cut across jurisdictional boundaries, rights and responsibilities, requiring the involvement of multiple provinces and Indigenous communities — and sometimes the United States....
This publication presents the strategic orientations endorsed by the WWC General Assembly for the period 2019-2021. It includes initiatives around water security, water and climate change, resilient communities and human settlements, financing water, and IWRM.
The Brief, produced by UN-Water Task Force on Water Security, aims to capture the dynamic and constantly evolving dimensions of water and water-related issues, and offers a holistic outlook for addressing water challenges through the umbrella of water security.
Water security, thus, is the principle priority for the World Water Council’s strategy for 2019-2021--but not water security at any price. Water security must be sustainable, designed to respond simultaneously to social, economic, and environmental pressures.
the OECD to promote and accelerate a transition to water security, by connecting policymakers and practitioners through global and country level consultations and through an expert task force analysis of the links between water security and sustainable economic growth.
