Water scarcity is one of the most pressing development challenges of our time. Today, 2.4 billion people live in water-stressed countries. Many are smallholder farmers who already struggle to meet ...

Climate change has many signals—rising sea levels, melting glaciers, stronger storms—but the first and most immediate sign for most people on the planet is water. Not too much of it. Not too little.

Water scarcity might seem like a distant problem in a world where three-quarters of the planet's surface is water. Yet this precious resource increasingly finds itself at the center of humanity's most ...

From data centers to agriculture, tightening water supplies are reshaping global markets, exposing trillions in assets, and pushing companies toward water-positive strategies.

Water scarcity has long been discussed as a crisis waiting to arrive. The latest global scientific assessment suggests that moment may already have passed. In J ...

Depending on where you live, the global water crisis may not yet be tangible. And yet for billions of people around the world, this “invisible risk” is already a stark reality, as Christian Bréthaut, ...

Contamination of China’s fresh water resources from industrial pollution and inadequate sewage treatment is seen by Chinese residents as the nation’s most critical environmental priority, according to ...

A study published in Nature Food by researchers from the Politecnico di Milano and the University of California at Berkeley provides forward-thinking answers to the debate on the role of environmental ...

Your correspondent moderated a panel discussion with global experts in desalination, international development, and water economics at the ceremony announcing the teams that had qualified for the ...