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Water governance and water resource management strategies to mitigate the risk of floods and drought and improve water conservation and water quality.

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This report outlines over 100 actionable strategies for frontline communities' water and sanitation systems in the face of intensifying climate impacts while addressing systemic inequities.

Pacific Institute, the
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Water from the melting ice often drains into depressions creating large lakes. Many of these expanding lakes are held in place by precarious ice dams. Too much water behind these dams or a landslide into the lake can break the dam.

Conversation Media Group, the
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The report highlights the increasing risk of drought in Paris due to climate change, with rising temperatures and reduced soil moisture affecting water supply.

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
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Researchers led by the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) have now published a study on the ecological consequences of the Kakhovka Dam collapse in Ukraine.

Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB)
A girl lines up for water in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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Wildfires, floods, intense heat, droughts, and other extreme events fueled by climate change are threatening water systems in the U.S. and around the globe.

Yale Environment 360
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This report details how United States local regulators can reinforce the resilience of utilities. The report highlights funding issues across the private and public water and wastewater sectors.

McKinsey & Company
A villager distributes water to be used by households during a drought in northern Kenya
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This new research examines climatic trends over the past 42 years in 112 cities. It analyses whether these cities are becoming more prone to floods, or to droughts, and how these changes affect the people who live there.

WaterAid
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Tapping low-hanging clouds could be a cheap way to boost dwindling water supplies, according to new research.

Grist Magazine
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