Water

Using survey data collected from approximately half a million individuals across Sub-Saharan Africa over from 2005 to 2018, this paper examines the causal relationship between water availability and labor market outcomes.

This study evaluates the impact of sand dams on resilience to climate variability and changes through a participatory case study approach in the Shashe catchment, a semi-arid catchment shared by Botswana and Zimbabwe.

By 2050, climate change could increase the amount of time women in households without running water spend collecting water by up to 30 percent on global average, according to a new study published in Nature Climate Change.

Landlocked and dependent primarily on rainfall, Malawi's socio-economic development is intricately linked to the availability of water. However, the specter of climate change has brought increased variability in rainfall patterns and water shortages.

More cities will likely face water shortages as climate change, deforestation and ecosystems degradation increasingly threaten the natural systems that maintain water supplies. But nature offers solutions, too.

A new study, published recently in Earth's Future, proposes a new solution: cost-effective informal water contracts, which could be a quicker and more affordable way to bring water to cities and homes during droughts and other emergencies.

Declining snowfall is changing the seasonal patterns of streamflow throughout the Northern Hemisphere, boosting chances of water shortages in the summer, scientists have found.

A recent study has alarmed the scientific community by predicting that approximately three million people in currently untapped areas of Korea could face groundwater depletion by 2080.