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Water: The Future We Want
Last week I was a speaker at a Global Water Intelligence summit in Rome. The organizers asked the panelists to imagine a perfect water future in 25 years and then re-engineer what is necessary to get...
View ArticleLessons from Hackers
It’s been almost 8 months since the World Bank Group convened the first Water Hackathon. The Water Hackathon brought nearly 1000 computer programmers in 10 cities around the world together to compete...
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Financial Sustainability and Public-Private Partnerships, or Back to Basics
At a session at the IWA conference in Busan, Korea, panelists debated the current thinking about public and private roles in supply chain management. All agreed that any sense of dichotomy was, as...
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At a Loss for Words
The overwhelming theme of the IWA conference in Busan Korea this week is to enable societies to get more value from their water systems. Highly technical events that focus on the latest science aimed...
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What Does Water Look Like in a 4-Degrees World?
All climate negotiations have been based on staying below 2°C above pre-industrial temperatures. Yet it looks increasingly unlikely that that will be possible. A new report, Turn Down the Heat: Why a...
View ArticleMeasuring is Managing
Water management lies behind most of the great development challenges of the 21st Century. It's obvious but we too often forget that we won't be able to achieve food security, energy security, healthy...
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New Ways to Measure Heat on Earth's Surface Could Revolutionize Agricultural...
Yesterday, on the eve of World Water Day, NASA and the United States Geological Survey released the first images from the thermal imaging band of its latest launch of the LANDSAT satellite. The...
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Cutting Water Consumption in Concentrated Solar Power Plants
Concentrated solar power (CSP) systems are a great promise for renewable energy at scale. But they can use a lot of water, which is a problem since they tend to be located in places where water is...
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Water Integrity: What's It All About?
June 5-7 saw the first ever international forum dedicated to Water Integrity, dedicated to promoting transparency, accountability and participation across the entire practice of water. The Water...
View ArticleWhy a 4-Degrees World Won't Cause Just One Water Crisis
There is much talk of a water crisis. We who work in water don't really see just one; we see lots of different water crises already now, getting worse as we move towards 2 and eventually 4 degrees...
View ArticleWhy a 4-Degrees World Won't Cause Just One Water Crisis
There is much talk of a water crisis. We who work in water don't really see just one; we see lots of different water crises already now, getting worse as we move towards 2 and eventually 4 degrees...
View ArticleWhy a 4-Degrees World Won't Cause Just One Water Crisis
There is much talk of a water crisis. We who work in water don't really see just one; we see lots of different water crises already now, getting worse as we move towards 2 and eventually 4 degrees...
View ArticleFrom the World Water Forum: Feeding Nine Billion People
In a session on water’s role in food security at the 6th World Water Forum in Marseille, the director of the Food and Agriculture Organization, Mr. Alexander Mueller, has just outlined water's role in...
View ArticleWhat Happens in Vegas?
Las Vegas is extreme in many ways, perhaps in no way more than in its water management. We were delighted to host 'Water Czar' Patricia Mulroy, general manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority...
View ArticleA Sustainable Development Goal for Water?
As the 2015 endline for the Millennium Development Goals draw to a close, the process of developing the next goals is underway. The World Bank has been involved with the UN and others for some time,...
View ArticleThe next phase of forest action
© Andrea Borgarello/World Bank Last year, over 100 countries included actions related to land-use change and forests in their nationally determined contributions to fight climate change. At the World...
View ArticleReducing the health burden due to pollution
Photo: © Simone D. McCourtie / World Bank Heavy smog compelled New Delhi to declare a pollution emergency last week. As air pollution soared to hazardous levels and residents donned masks, India’s...
View ArticleFrom the World Water Forum: Feeding Nine Billion People
In a session on water’s role in food security at the 6th World Water Forum in Marseille, the director of the Food and Agriculture Organization, Mr. Alexander Mueller, has just outlined water's role in...
View ArticleWhat Happens in Vegas?
Las Vegas is extreme in many ways, perhaps in no way more than in its water management. We were delighted to host 'Water Czar' Patricia Mulroy, general manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority...
View ArticleA Sustainable Development Goal for Water?
As the 2015 endline for the Millennium Development Goals draw to a close, the process of developing the next goals is underway. The World Bank has been involved with the UN and others for some time,...
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