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by - Despite years of requests, Javanese villagers can't get the government to tell them the facts about their polluted river. Meanwhile, their fishing catches―and income―continue to decline.
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A new report from World Resources Institute’s (WRI) The Access Initiative reveals that Asian countries are not effectively telling people if the water they use for drinking, farming and fishing is polluted or dangerously toxic.
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by Alberto Pallecchi - August 28, 2017Rome's famous fountains went dry this summer as mounting water stress took its toll. To avoid a repeat, the city must patch leaky infrastructure, incentivize efficiency and reuse wastewater.
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WRI’s Water program studies local water data and governance, and shares best practices in order to advance context-driven, meaningful water management.
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by Leah Schleifer - August 24, 2017The global water crisis can be summed up in these "seven deadly sins," from climate change to leaky infrastructure, that water researchers and officials will try to tackle during the 2017 World Water Week.
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by Ayushi Trivedi, Natalie Elwell and Sara Walker - August 10, 2017As they struggle to care for farms and families in a changing climate, women in the developing world face unfair burdens related to their gender. A shift in approaches could increase agricultural yields and advance equal rights.
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by Hidayah Hamzah - July 31, 2017When Jakarta isn't submerged by floods, its residents experience incredible water stress. These twin problems—too much water and too little—are linked by a common solution: restoring the watershed's forests.
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by Tianyi Luo - July 26, 2017Thermal power plants rely on water for cooling, which means droughts can push generation offline. In India, reports describe this vulnerability—itself just another reason to speed the transition to renewables.
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by Jiao Wang, Leah Schleifer and Lijin Zhong - June 29, 2017Nearly all of the world's electrical generation relies in one way or another on water. Climate change will stress water resources, potentially undermining the power sector.
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by Betsy Otto and Suzanne Ozment - May 16, 2017This Infrastructure Week, it's time to look beyond building new pipes and pumps. Growing, restoring and preserving America's "natural infrastructure" like forests can help secure clean water supplies.
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by Paul Reig, Tien Shiao, Morgan Gillespy, Kari Vigerstol and Alexis Morgan - April 11, 2017A new generation of corporate water targets will take the local context, the most recent science and stakeholder needs into account.
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by Elizabeth Moses - March 30, 2017Civil society groups can enhance environmental and economic outcomes by connecting communities with expertise and formal decision-making processes.
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by Vittal Boggaram and Sahana Goswami - March 22, 2017Water’s usability doesn’t need to end once it's flushed down the drain. Rather, India can see industrial and domestic wastewater as a valuable resource from which water, nutrients and even renewable energy can be extracted.
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by Katie Fletcher and Todd Gartner - March 21, 2017It’s fitting that International Day of Forests (March 21) and World Water Day (March 22) fall next to each other, as the health of these resources often go hand-in-hand.
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by Xiaotian Fu, Leah Schleifer and Lijin Zhong - March 17, 2017You wouldn't drink wastewater, but it can be converted into a valuable energy source. In fact, some are already trying it, with promising results.
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by Spencer Knowles - March 14, 2017The Chesapeake Bay is one of America's most treasured waterways, but also one of the most polluted. Experts in this WRI Podcast examine nutrient trading as a potential solution.