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Only 3% of the earth’s water is freshwater; about two-thirds of it is frozen in glaciers and polar ice caps and we have long over-stretched this precious resource.

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New video: learning and dialogue, key steps to building water cooperation across borders

A new video, produced by the IUCN BRIDGE team, aims to give an insight into the learning and dialogue that takes place during BRIDGE workshops. Entitled ‘BRIDGE: How to build water cooperation across borders’ is now available on YouTube.

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Visual Storytelling: Infrastructure Solutions for the Volta Basin

This Shorthand tells the story of the WISE-UP Project in the Volta Basin, Ghana.

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SUSTAIN: Sizing up Africa’s major development corridors
13.07.2017
Driven by investment, business, technology and the dynamism of its people, Africa is changing at a rate perhaps unmatched in recorded history. Of the 20 fastest growing economies in the world, nine are in Africa. The continent’s population will double to 2...
Transboundary benefit-sharing: discussing the opportunities for the Sio-Malaba-Malakisi basin
12.07.2017
The Sio-Malaba-Malakisi (SMM) basin, shared between Kenya and Uganda, faces constraints from reduced water quality and quantity in large parts of the river catchments. Despite the potential for development and investment, the basin remains underdeveloped,...
GROW GREEN: new partnership to demonstrate benefits of nature-based solutions in cities
26.06.2017
Innovation will be the focus of GROW GREEN, which stands for "Green Cities for Climate and Water Resilience, Sustainable Economic Growth, Healthy Citizens and Environments." This new five-year demonstration project aims to achieve climate and water...