future water crisis.•Access to affordable and accessible credit remains one of the key ways to increase household incomes.•It is mainly women and children who share a great burden and suffering from waterborne diseases.Water insecurity is a major concern both in the global and local contexts...
water insecuritywater policyrural developmentwater privatizationwater pricingWater insecurity is one of the most pressing issues currently faced by Malawi. The consequences of these issues are borne significantly by women, who are most directly involved with water provision and use, particularly at the ...
Anthonj C, Mingoti Poague KIH, Fleming L, Stanglow S (2024) Invisible struggles: WASH insecurity and implications of extreme weather among urban homeless in high-income countries - a systematic scoping review. Int J Hyg Environ Health 255:114285. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.IJHEH.2023.114285 ...
Nevertheless, the performance of agriculture in the central Africa Copperbelt region in terms of food production and security has been lacking far behind mainly due to recurrent prolonged droughts, making food insecurity a major challenge [25, 26]. Moreover, food security is compromised by the ...
The MacArthur Foundation named the winners of its 2023 "genius grants" this week. Arizona State University anthropologist Amber Wutich, who received a grant for her research into water insecurity, joins CBS News to discuss the impact of access
of the impact of anthropogenic climate change on China’s water resources and agriculture and therefore China’s ability to feed its people. To reach a more definitive conclusion, future work must improve regional climate simulations—especially of precipitation—and develop a better understanding of ...
Somalia faces Risk of Famine (IPC Phase 5) as multi-season drought and soaring food prices lead to worsening acute food insecurity and malnutrition (Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit, 2022); https://fsnau.org/node/1947. Horn of Africa Drought: Regional Humanitarian Overview & Call to ...
In many parts of the world, lake drying is caused by water management failures, while the phenomenon is exacerbated by climate change. Lake Urmia in Northern Iran is drying up at such an alarming rate that it is considered to be a dying lake, which has d
to shield cells from the damaging effects of UV-induced oxidative damage. Interestingly, it was found recently that water alone could quickly reverse the damage of a plant by UV radiation [3]. The importance of water in human skin and plants has not been adequately studied in molecular ...
Therefore, we quantified the impacts of spatiotemporal LULC changes on soil loss across agroecologies and slope categories using GIS and RUSLE model from 1985 to 2021 in Zoa watershed, southwest Ethiopia. Moreover, prioritizing erosion severity risks at sub-watersheds and quantifying temporal sediment...