Climate change threatens to undermine efforts to improve water security and end poverty. So how can planners ensure that water and sanitation programmes are resilient to climate variability and change?
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How to stop #hard2reach people dropping off the research agenda?
The ‘invisible poor’ are an under-researched group that are critical to understanding the linkages between poverty and water security.
Gender and water security: the rest of the puzzle
Ask most people what the link between gender, poverty and water is and they’ll refer to the role of women in collecting water. However, this is only one piece of a much bigger puzzle linking gender and water to natural disasters, food security and even child marriage.
Water security isn’t a short-term issue for refugees
Access to water is a huge challenge for refugees. In more than half of refugee camps around the world, refugees cannot secure the minimum daily water requirement of 20 litres per person, let alone water to support livelihoods.
Water for agriculture: managing the land and rains in the Ethiopian highlands
Reflecting on a diagnostic field visit to Ethiopia, Andrew Dansie’s blog draws attention to the role of water storage, agriculture, and land use in water security and rural livelihoods.
Water on all sides: reflections on Bangladesh
‘Bangladesh is for a water scientist what London is for a banker or Hawaii for a surfer.’ Edoardo Borgomeo’s blog on the recent REACH diagnostic field visit to Bangladesh.
