Water and Sanitation

Urban wetlands breathe life into Sri Lanka’s capital city -- Colombo is built on and around wetlands, which keep people safe from floods, cool the air, filter polluted water, provide food and medicines, fight climate change, and provide city dwellers respite from the urban jungle. However, during the last 30 years, an estimated 40% of the wetlands in Colombo has been lost due to direct and indirect impacts of urbanization. If Colombo were to lose all its precious wetlands, the city would be flooded annually costing as much as 1% of its GDP in flood damage...

This is just such a fascinating topic and somehow I hear so little about it. Desalination - critical for water needs in dry areas but so energy intensive. What does it mean for our green and prosperous future?

Climate Resilient Urban Areas: Governance, design and development in coastal delta cities

As the world works towards a green recovery from COVID-19, a new CDP report explores how buyers and suppliers are addressing risks from climate change, deforestation, and water security.

Key findings:
- Environmental supply chain risks could cost companies $120 billion in the next 5 years.
- Supply chain emissions are 11.4x higher than operational emissions – double previous estimates.
- Buyers are increasingly demanding transparency and action from suppliers to tackle environmental impacts in supply chains.
- Suppliers cut emissions by 619 mtCO2, but they must now engage their own value chains on climate, deforestation & water risks.

‘Investors voice concerns about overvaluing assets, but undervaluing assets is of even greater concern’: LAPFF’s Doug McMurdo on water risk

To highlight the escalating global water crisis, this year’s UN World Water Day on March 22 will focus on valuing water. With water demand expected to exceed supply by 56% within the decade, companies, investors and institutions are being called on to not only recognise the challenges of pricing water appropriately, but consider the social, environmental and cultural value of water.

An Effective Solid Waste Management and Environmental sanitation Diseases Reduction Module of Ghana- A Case of Thetechiman Municipal Area, Brong Ahafo Region, Ghana

Physical Development and Renal Functions in Adolescents Consuming Drinking Water with High Content of Vital Cation

Cities are turning to green infrastructure to improve water quality and manage water quantity by restoring the hydrologic function of the urban landscape. One city doing so is Raleigh, North Carolina.

Fate of Urban Groundwater in Shallow Confined Aquifers. Case Study of Baldia Town, Karachi, Pakistan