World-leading water institute - Stockholm International Water Institute - SIWI
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keywords: description:SIWI stands for Stockholm International Water Institute. We are experts in water governance, diplomacy and cooperation over shared water resources.Good water governance is key to achieving water security, fairly allocating water resources, and avoiding disputes.
Water is a growing concern in many parts of the world. Countries can improve their water resilience through transboundary water cooperation over shared waters.
The climate crisis is essentially a water crisis. When we treat it as such, we get new tools to mitigate climate change and adapt to consequences that are unavoidable.
In 2015, the global community launched the 2030 Agenda, with 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that should be reached by 2030. Some progress has been made, but for most of the goals, the world is not on track to meet the deadline. Water can help us do better.
Insufficient supply and inadequate infrastructure leaves millions of people in the world without water.
How to increase the productivity of agriculture around the world through better water management.
The global COVID-19 pandemic has pushed millions of people back into poverty and exposed unacceptable gaps between the rich and the poor. One in three people are still not able to wash their hands with soap and water at home.
Will future wars be fought over water? The answer is probably no, but water scarcity can contribute to conflicts.
Indigenous peoples are the custodians of many of the world’s most fragile and important ecosystems. They also possess invaluable knowledge about sustainability and resilience, so they have a vital role in protecting our environment.
The source-to-sea approach focuses on the strong connection between what happens on land, along waterways, and in the sea.
A growing number of people, societies and companies are discovering the power of resilient landscapes. It is still possible to shift to more sustainable practices that recharge water, restore soil health, sequester carbon, and strengthen biodiversity – but we need to make the transformation now.
More than two billion people in the world lack safely managed drinking water and twice as many lack safely managed sanitation, making WASH one of the most urgent development challenges.
Groundwater is the regulator of the entire freshwater cycle, but its invisibility makes it difficult to manage and protect.
While we all depend heavily on rivers for our survival, many rivers are under constant threat from unsustainable human activities
PERSPECTIVESMore and more young people offer important contributions to solving the growing water challenges they are inheriting.
Having access to water and sanitation has been recognized as a human right since 2010. But water is also essential to ensuring the fulfilment of many other rights.
To improve water governance, we need to take a close look at gender roles.
SIWI is a leading expert in water governance. We are also a curator of change, championing water solutions for a just, prosperous, and sustainable future.
Who we are What we doThe UN climate conference COP26 meant a big step forward in the recognition of the role of nature for climate action, SIWI says in a statement. But it is worrying that there is so little trust between countries and insufficient support for countries in the Global South. SIWI is proposing solutions to overcome this with the help of water.
Water and the 2030 Agenda Water and climate