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Drowned Land: Women protect Water

A new documentary, “Drowned Land,” explores the Choctaw-led effort to put tribal heritage above profit. Women Are Leading the Effort to Protect Sacred Water: The kwek, the women of my trib...
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Gender in Water Resource Development

In Africa, water resource management plays a crucial role in the continent’s development, particularly in the context of agriculture, health, and climate change adaptation. However, the manageme...
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Local Voices for Water Security

Unheard Water Stories from Asia, Africa and MENA: Elevating local voices for water security in a climate insecure world. A publication by Oxfam. This paper shares stories from six countries—Bangladesh...
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Behavioural Science for Water Security

How can behavioural science be used to understand gender for inclusive water security and adaptation? Researchers from the Grantham Research Institute are applying new approaches from behavioural scie...
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Water and women – a gender issue

Two articles published in Kenya’s Nation in the context of the ongoing COP29 deal with the effects of water scarcity from a gender perspective: Scientists warn women could spend 30 per cent more...
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Denise Soares joins the Blue Community

Denise Freitas Soares de Moraes, a researcher at the Mexican Institute of Water Technology (Instituto Mexicano de Tecnología del Agua), member of the Coordination of Water Governance and Capacity Buil...
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Water Insecurity and Women’s Health

Anthropologists and local activists in Indonesia and Peru uncover links between water scarcity and gendered violence, and work together to lessen the harms of gender inequality. Worldwide, water inse...
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Brazil: complicated and contradictory

Political developments in Brazil are complicated and contradictory for the environment and for environmentalists, according to articles on the platform Mongabay. At the municipal elections on 6 Octobe...
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Making Inclusive WASH Services a Reality

The Guests on episode 4 of the Enugu WASH RadioSeries shared lived and relatable experiences of accessing Toilet facilities as representatives of persons with disability, Civil Society Organizations a...
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