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Water plays a key role in the implementation of the Paris climate agreement

Scheumann, Waltina / Annabelle Houdret (2020)
The Current Column, 20. March 2020

Without sustainable water management, both food production and electricity generation, let alone drinking water supplies, are at risk.

Water crises – water opportunities promoting water cooperation in the Middle East

Houdret, Annabelle / Tobias von Lossow (2023)
External Publications

Evolution of transboundary politics in the Euphrates-Tigris river system: new perspectives and political challenges

Kibaroglu, Aysegul / Waltina Scheumann (2013)
External Publications

UN 2023 Water Conference

New York, 22. March 2023

22 nd of March is World Water Day , and this year global attention to our important but yet seriously threatened water resources is higher than ever. The first UN water conference since 46 years takes place in New York and reiterates the crucial dependence of human development, the SDGs and the climate agenda on sufficient water resources…

Water – the “blue” thread running through the 2030 Agenda and the Paris Climate Agreement

Janetschek, Hannah / Ines Dombrowsky (2017)
The Current Column, 28. August 2017

Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) (The Current Column of 28 August 2017)

World Water Day: Why the recycling of treated waste water is no foregone conclusion

Scheumann, Waltina (2017)
The Current Column, 22. March 2017

In the 2017 World Water Development Report, the focus is no longer on the purification and disposal of waste water, but rather on reuse, recycling and resource recovery.

The poverty of sustainability: behavioral choices of drinking water in Kenya and Germany

Subramanian, Saravanan (2024)
External Publications

Reconceptualising water management in Khorezm, Uzbekistan

Hornidge, Anna-Katharina / Lisa Oberkircher / Bernhard Tischbein / Gunther Schorcht / Anik Bhaduri / Usman K. Awan / Ahmad M. Manschadi (2011)
External Publications

Approaches to overcoming regional water poverty

Neubert, Susanne (2002)
Briefing Paper 4/2002

What does the Paris climate agreement mean for water policy?

Dombrowsky, Ines / Steffen Bauer / Waltina Scheumann (2016)
The Current Column, 22. March 2016

Water for peace? Peace for water in Gaza!

Houdret, Annabelle / Ines Dombrowsky (2024)
The Current Column, 20. March 2024

This year’s theme of the United Nations’ World Water Day is ‘water for peace’. In one of the world’s most water-scarce and conflict-affected regions, Israelis, Jordanians and Palestinians work together across geographical, religious and other boundaries to make steps towards securing their joint water-dependent future.

Expanding water privatization in Mozambique: producing success, reproducing neoliberal water

Büscher, Chris (2024)
External Publications

The land-water nexus

Online, 22. March 2024

On the occasion of World Water Day 2024, the Bonn Water Network and its members including the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), the German Institute for Development and Sustainability (IDOS), the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the Global Water Operators' Partnerships Alliance…

Water Security and Ecosystem-based Adaptation to Climate Change

Rodríguez de Francisco, Jean Carlo / Mirja Schoderer / Carmen Richerzhagen (2018)
The Current Column, 22. March 2018

The motto of this year’s World Water Day states “the answer is in nature”, referring to nature-based solutions to the “water challenges we face in the 21st century”. One of these challenges is climate change, the impacts of which threaten water se-curity worldwide.

Corruption in the water sector

Online, 18. January 2022

Corruption hampers the achievement of SDG 6 for ensuring water and sanitation for all. In fact, corruption is estimated to be responsible for “losses” of 10% of the investments going into the capital intensive water sector and in some countries reaching as high as 40% to 50% (WIN, 2020). This in turn leads to higher costs for drinking…

Restoring the Zayandeh Rud River: addressing the political causes of water shortage in Iran

Yousefi, Ali / Christian Knieper / Claudia Pahl-Wostl (2020)
Briefing Paper 19/2020

Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)

It’s about water!

Online, 07. October 2021

Climate change impacts cities in manifold ways and often affects water resources: floods and other natural hazards damage urban infrastructure, drinking water quality can deteriorate, and pressure on surrounding water-based ecosystems can increase. The Bonn Water Network (BWN) invites you to its session at the Daring Cities Conference…

Water Governance

Special "Water Governance": Researchers at IDOS analyse water governance problems to understand conditions for equitable, ecologically sustainable water use, access, and control.

River basin management and fiscal decentralisation: mutually supportive or counterproductive? A case study of Mongolia

Dombrowsky, Ines / Ariunaa Lkhagvadorj / Mirja Schoderer (2018)
Discussion Paper 10/2018

Does decentralization benefit river basin management or does it create competition among subnational administrations and river basin organizations in Mongolia? An assessment of the responsibilities and the financial resources available to entities charged with river basin management provides answers.

Accelerate the Scaling up of effective peer-to-peer partnerships between Water Operators Worldwide

Online, 19. October 2021

The 4th Global WOPs Congress is around the corner! From 18 to 29 October, the #WOPsCongress will feature more than 30 sessions and spaces to spur exchange, learning, and collaboration on topics relevant to water and sanitation operators across the globe and inspire actions on pressing matters such as climate adaptation in the water and…