Today, agriculture uses 80% of the world’s consumed water. There is scope for much greater use of micro irrigation and smart agriculture, which is a win-win for both ordinary farmers and the environment. 🧑‍🌾 🌍

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#ForPeopleForPlanet #EarthDay

'Water is connected to everything, nothing can work without water… Investing in green and blue water benefits all SDGs, mitigates climate change, and builds resilience for a sustainable future for people and the planet,' highlights Henk Ovink, our Executive Director.

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Severe water scarcity affects 4 billion people for at least one month each year. Over 2 billion live with inadequate water supply. We urgently need to rethink how we govern this vital common good.

New paper with Mariam Zaqout 🇵🇸 ➡️ ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/publi…

Global Commission on the Economics of Water

“Across our lock-ins and divides, geographies, cultures and vested interests, water provides the safe space to build and maintain coalitions to spur action and catalyze change,” highlights our very own Henk Ovink this #WorldWaterDay .

#TurningTheTide 👉 buff.ly/3IhhSCO

#WorldWaterDay : Our business-as-usual approaches — too narrow, local, short-horizoned and divided — have been out of sync with the world experiencing tipping points and facing potentially cataclysmic and irreversible change. We must correct these failings, with more systems

This year's focus of #WorldWaterDay centers on the theme of 'Water for Peace'. When water is scarce or polluted, or when people have unequal or no access, tensions can rise between communities and countries.

🔹 Water can create peace or spark conflict: buff.ly/38ROEWj

Today is #WorldWaterDay . With human activity jeopardizing water at its very source, the need for new policies has become urgent, wrote Mariana Mazzucato, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Johan Rockström, and Tharman of Global Commission on the Economics of Water last year. bit.ly/3P8opml

Our Executive Director Henk Ovink will join leading water experts at the Reservoir Center for Water Solutions’s #WorldWaterDay Summit tomorrow to discuss how we can work together to strengthen global water sustainability 🌍

Learn more and register here to attend: buff.ly/495Z2Zu

When we cooperate on water, we send a positive ripple effect through society.

Cooperation on water paves the way for cooperation on all shared challenges.

Water and peace go hand in hand.
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🔔 Coming up tomorrow: Our very own Henk Ovink will be speaking at In Focus: Research, presented by The World Around and Future Observatory the Design Museum in London.

The discussion will reflect on the urgent need to champion truly new ideas and thinking to address the world’s

Stable markets and societies require a stable water cycle, especially for food production 💧 🌍 🌾

We must manage the global water cycle as a global common good, to be protected collectively and in the interests of all. It means recognising that communities and nations are

This #InternationalWomensDay , let’s accelerate progress and #InvestInWomen .

It's imperative that we prioritise gender equality in water decision-making. We must also empower farmers, women, youth, workers, Indigenous Peoples and local communities and consumers who are at the

A stable water cycle is required for thriving markets and societies.

We can protect the global water cycle if we take action collectively. We must embrace collective intelligence and a shared sense of purpose. In addition, we must structure investments, institutions and

The hydrological cycle connects distant economies and societies 💧🌍👨‍👩‍👦‍👦

We have sought to manage water locally, or through agreements and treaties on transboundary watercourses and lakes, without recognising how communities and countries are interconnected through the global

Dwindling water supplies from melting glaciers and excessive withdrawal from aquifers pose a threat to global #foodsystems .

Let’s create a positive change 👉 bit.ly/3jOD0XU

#TurningTheTide #ClimateCrisis #FutureOfFood

'I've been paying attention to the issue of water for roughly about 30 years, and I've been making efforts in China to bring water pollution under control and make our water use more sustainable. Today, we're facing a triple planetary crisis: climate change, pollution, and

'What is really important to me is being able to bring my voice from the local level, to bring the solutions and the actions we are leading at the local level on the ground, and seeing how those can transform the conversations we are having at the global level,' our newly

🌐 The interconnected challenges of #climatechange , biodiversity loss and nature degradation are the result of how the world’s economies are set up.

A healthy planet is essential for the welfare of humanity and the economy: bit.ly/3jOD0XU

#TurningTheTide #GlobalGoals

💰🌍🌾Agricultural subsidies in high-income countries drive significant tropical deforestation around the world.

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#TurningTheTide #ClimateCrisis

Distinguished environmentalist Ma Jun has been appointed to the Global Commission on the Economics of Water this year.

Ma Jun, named one of TIME Magazine’s World’s 100 Most Influential People, is the founder of China’s Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs (IPE) and a