As the Six Nations of the Grand River face water scarcity due to corporate extraction and limited land ownership, a new study shows how climate change will compound the issue.

Depending on where you live, the global water crisis may not yet be tangible. And yet for billions of people around the world, this “invisible risk” is already a stark reality, as Christian Bréthaut, ...

The Indus Waters Treaty withstood several armed conflicts and a huge loss of glaciers. It should serve as a blueprint for ...

Climate change has many signals—rising sea levels, melting glaciers, stronger storms—but the first and most immediate sign for most people on the planet is water. Not too much of it. Not too little.

Water scarcity might seem like a distant problem in a world where three-quarters of the planet's surface is water. Yet this precious resource increasingly finds itself at the center of humanity's most ...

Water is both a victim and a driver of climate change, intricately linked to our survival. Understanding this complex relationship is crucial to protecting livelihoods and infrastructure in a warming ...

Water scarcity is one of the most pressing development challenges of our time. Today, 2.4 billion people live in water-stressed countries. Many are smallholder farmers who already struggle to meet ...

Water is essential for life, yet billions of people around the world still lack reliable access to clean, safe water. As climate change accelerates, populations grow, and infrastructure struggles to ...

Climate change has become one of the biggest drivers of surging water costs in California, where rates increased six times faster than inflation. Between 2010 and 2017, water rates in Los Angeles ...

IDS researcher Jeremy Allouche challenges the assumption that climate change and water shortages will lead to wars.

In the coming decades, two converging nightmares are likely to produce a tidal wave of unrest, rebellion, competition and conflict. Activists from Environmental Greenpeace perform during talks on ...