In July 2025 at its 30th Ordinary Meeting of Ministers in Guinea, the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP) took a defining step: adopting a Resolution on the Political Prioritisation of W...

According to the IPCC, Central America is one of the world's most exposed regions to climate change in the world. More than 40 million people live with the threats of drought and flood: dry seasons th...

Climate change is already reshaping how countries must plan, finance and deliver water and sanitation services. Droughts, floods, changing rainfall patterns, rising temperatures and sea-level rise are...

Sanitation and Water for All has updated its Strategic Framework 2020–2030 for the final years to the SDG deadline. In this three-part series, I explain why, share what is changing in how the partners...

The Dominican Republic has done something few countries have managed: it built political consensus around water. The Pacto Dominicano por el Agua — a National Water Pact — is the only agreement of its...

Opinion: An Indian effort to improve access to clean water is making real headway. The secretary of the department of drinking water and sanitation at the government of India details how it plans to t...

Water security and sanitation sit at the intersection of some of the most urgent challenges facing the Latin America and Caribbean region: widening climate impacts, fiscal pressure on public services,...

The 79th World Health Assembly concluded in Geneva last week with delegates meeting under the shadow of a new public health emergency. Just as the Assembly was opening, WHO declared the Ebola outbreak...

Strengthening Utility Performance Across the Arab Region Arab Countries Water Utilities Association (ACWUA) plays a key role in supporting water and wastewater utilities across the Arab region. Throug...

WHO's Bruce Gordon and Fiona Gore warn that access gains will not last without stronger governance, financing, and workforce capacity.

El director ejecutivo en funciones de Agua y Saneamiento para Todos (SWA) alerta de los obstáculos para alcanzar los objetivos de la ONU de agua y saneamiento para 2030, en un contexto marcado por los recortes de fondos de ayuda internacional

The statistics are concerning. According to UN agencies, global water resources face significant challenges, including in Africa, where approximately ...

Opinion: Senior leaders from Brazil, Ghana, and Nigeria reflect on how political leadership — through coordination, accountability, and aligned financing — drives water and sanitation reform from isol...

Yesterday, the world marked #WorldWaterDay. But what does that day mean in a moment when the financing that underpins water and sanitation systems is increasingly under pressure—and, in some cases, be...

Today is World Water Day, and this year’s theme—Water and Gender—takes me back twenty years. In 2006, the United Nations took the unusual step of dedicating its Human Development Report entirely to wa...