End Water Poverty

Opinion: Voice of Civil Society Muffled in Post-2015 Negotiations for Better Future

By Esmee Russell
In September, the United Nations will agree on new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which will set development priorities for the next 15 years. The draft goals that have been developed are ambitious – they seek to end poverty and ensure no one is left behind.

Will Governments Keep Their Promises on the Human Right to Water?

By Dilip Surkar
It was a dramatic moment at the United Nations when it voted in 2010 to affirm water and sanitation as a human right.

U.N.’s Post-2015 Agenda Skips the Right to Water and Sanitation

By Thalif Deen
A U.N. working group mandated to formulate a set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for the post-2015 development agenda is being accused of bypassing water and sanitation as a basic human right: a right long affirmed in a General Assembly resolution adopted back in July 2010.

Bangladesh Ailing After Aila

By Robert Stefanicki
It has been four years since Cyclone Aila struck Bangladesh, triggering floods and widespread destruction. But the villagers of Koira subdistrict, among the worst affected of the 11 districts hit by the cyclone, are yet to recover from its impact.

Conserve Water or Perish, Warns U.N. Chief

By Thalif Deen
Just 17 years from now, nearly half the global population could be facing water scarcity, with demand outstripping supply by 40 percent.


z_library