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Better monitoring of groundwater is important for sustainable management.
The water crisis is a women’s crisis. Women need to be equal partners in the process of creating more just and effective water governance systems.
Stemming the water crisis in the western US will require cities and rural areas to work together to make water use on farms – the largest source of demand – more efficient.
‘Hyperscale’ warehouses filled with computer servers use water for electricity and cooling.
Water and climate issues are expected to cause more than one billion people to migrate by 2050.
Treatment rates are still low in many developing countries.
More than two billion people live without reliable access to clean water.
Just as America’s highways, sewage systems and water pipes need fixing, so does the growing gap between rich and poor. Trump and the Democrats could use that money to address both.
One of the major scenes of a potential water crisis and conflict is the Nile River.
China has successfully implemented afforestation to counter desertification. But, today, it faces another risk: its waters are declining.
Smart meters may help water saving initiatives as the drought persists in South Africa’s Western Cape. It can help those who need achieve saving targets.
At present, the Middle East and North African region contains 7% of the world’s population but only has access to 1.5% of its renewable freshwater supply through rainfall.
There is an increasing demand for water in cities like Cape Town. The current drought exacerbates this. But there are ways to use and save water sustainably.
The water crisis in South Africa could have been avoided through better planning.
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Visiting Adjunct Professor, School of Governance, University of the Witwatersrand
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Global Change Institute, University of the Witwatersrand
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Part-Time Professor of Economics, The New School
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Visiting Professor, King's College London
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Professor in Engineering, Chair in the Internet of Things, Stellenbosch University
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Academic Officer, Institute for Integrated Management of Material Fluxes and of Resources (UNU-FLORES), United Nations University
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Posdoctoral Researcher in Local Energy Systems, University of Oxford
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Visiting Scholar, University of Guelph
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Senior Researcher and Associate Professor, The Nordic Africa Institute
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Researcher in Resources Governance and Sustainability, University of Surrey
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Regents Professor Emeritus and Morris K. Udall Professor of Law & Public Policy Emeritus, University of Arizona
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Senior Research Fellow and Cluster Coordinator Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS) and Adj Prof McMaster University, Canada, United Nations University
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PhD Candidate, Department of Physical Geography, Utrecht University
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Head: Sustainable and Resilient City Initiatives Unit, EThekwini Municipality; Honorary Professor, University of KwaZulu Natal and Co-Chair of Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Researcher, Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London
