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WASTEWATER TREATMENT AND PRESERVATION OF FRESH WATER SOURCES
There is increasingly less drinking water on our planet, and serious global conflicts over drinking water are looming on the horizon, as the global crisis is already widely present due to the...
Available Data on Water-Related Ecosystems Doubles, Improving Countries’ Ability to Track SDGs
Fifty-nine (59) percent of environment-related indicators for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) now have sufficient data to analyse progress, up from 34 percent in 2018. A report released today by the UN...
How Can A Life-Cycle Approach Curb The Plastic Pollution Crisis?
At the recent United Nations Ocean Conference, another 22 governments agreed to join the New Plastics Economy Global Commitment, which unites stakeholders around the goal of transitioning towards a circular economy for...
Five Threats To the Water That Sustains our Farms
Since the 1950s, innovations like synthetic fertilizers, chemical pesticides and high-yield cereals have helped humanity dramatically increase the amount of food it grows. But those inventions would be moot without agriculture’s most precious...
UN Environment Programme And European Investment Bank Join Forces To Reduce Pollution In The Marine And Coastal Environment
The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the European Investment Bank (EIB) launched the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Mediterranean Pollution Hot Spots Technical Assistance initiative, which aims to reduce pollution in the Mediterranean...
New Report: Is the Solution to Water Crises Hiding Right Under Our Feet?
Groundwater accounts for 99 percent of all liquid freshwater on Earth. However, this natural resource is often poorly understood and consequently undervalued, mismanaged and even abused. According to the latest edition of...
Why Water is Crucial for Sustainable Food Systems
Agriculture is a major user of freshwater withdrawals
Irrigated crops, livestock, fisheries, aquaculture and forestry, account for roughly 70 percent of total freshwater withdrawals globally and for over 90 percent in the majority...
Emerging Evidence Suggests COVID-19 Was Worsened by Air Pollution
As science reveals more and more links between air pollution and the effects of COVID-19, the pressure is mounting on the European Commission to set high ambitions in the upcoming revision of...
WWF Commends UN Environment Assembly’s Watershed Decision to Start Negotiations for a Global Plastics Treaty
UN Member states at the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-5.2) have unanimously agreed to develop a legally binding treaty to end plastic pollution, making it one of the world’s most ambitious environmental actions...
WADI + Sun = Free Potable Water
The perfection is in simplicity, which also goes for simple inventions. Thus, a small device, called WADI, which does not require batteries, chemi-cals, or spare parts, can save a large part of...
Comprehensive Assessment on Marine Litter and Plastic Pollution Confirms Need for Urgent Global Action
A drastic reduction in unnecessary, avoidable and problematic plastic is crucial to addressing the global pollution crisis, according to a comprehensive assessment released today by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). An accelerated...
Serbia isn’t Rich in Waters
Serbia is the poorest country in the Balkans in autochthonous surface water (runoff module q=5.7 l.s-1.km-2) and is among the most impoverished region in Europe. Neighboring countries have significantly higher runoff module...
Water Management According To European Standards
The draft of the Water management plan on the territory of Serbia for the next six years is in the final stage. Its fundamental goal is the protection and improvement of water...
ABB’s Technology in Singapore’s First Dual-Mode Desalination Plant Helps Tackle Water Scarcity in Region
The United Nation’s (UN) World Water Development Report recently stated that nearly six billion people will suffer from clean water scarcity by 2050.
So, as we “celebrate” World Water Week, it’s time to...
Seven Things you Should Know About Household Air Pollution
Every year, nearly 4 million people die prematurely from indoor air pollution. Many succumb to diseases linked to inhaling smoke from kerosene, wood and charcoal fires, which are commonly used in the...
In Cameroon, plastic pollution is making floods even deadlier
My name is Nathalie Wamja and I am a Greenpeace volunteer based in Douala, Cameroon. I would like to tell you how plastic pollution is wreaking havoc in my community, and causing a...
