Addressing the global water crisis in a challenging political environment

Veranstaltungsart
Online debate

Ort / Datum
Online, 10.03.2025

Veranstalter

German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), Bonn Water Network

Too little, too much, too dirty –  water challenges in virtually all countries are increasing with climate change and due to overuse and lacking treatment of the precious resource. Global and local changes in water flows could “(…) increasingly lead to threatening situations that are beyond the spectrum of human experience and could escalate into regional water emergencies”, as the German Advisory Council on Global Change warns in its recent report. The mid-term review on the Sustainable Development Goal 6 on Clean Water and Sanitation shows that the world is not on track to achieve this goal by 2030. More than ever, we need international and global cooperation to sustainably manage water – but the current political environment marked by the rise of geopolitics, nationalism and competition for water is challenging. On the road to the 2026 United Nations Water Conference, we urgently need to better understand global water challenges and find adequate responses.

Join our Bonn Water Network* event to learn more about key findings on the global water crisis and to discusses options to address them in the current context.


The Bonn Water Network consists of eleven renowned institutions with longstanding experience on water and related issues: the Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies (BICC); Bonn University with its Institute of Geography (GIUB) holding the UNESCO Chair in Human Water Systems, the Center for Development Research (ZEF) and the Institute for Hygiene and Public Health (IHPH); the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS); the IUCN Environmental Law Centre; and three Bonn-based UN institutions: the United Nations Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS), the Secretariat of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) and the Global Water Operators Partnerships Alliance (UN-Habitat/GWOPA). In addition, Berlin- based Water Integrity Network (WIN) and the International Centre for Water Resources and Global Change (ICGWRC) based in Koblenz are partners of the BWN. For more information: www.bonnwaternetwork.de.

 

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Veranstaltungsinformation

Datum / Uhrzeit

10.03.2025 / 17:00 - 18:30

Ort

Online

Contact

Photo: Dr. Annabelle Houdret ist Politikwissenschaftlerin und Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin im Forschungsprogramm "Umwelt-Governance".

Annabelle Houdret
Senior Researcher at IDOS and Speaker of the Network

E-mail Annabelle.houdret@idos-research.de