Over one billion people lack access to adequate water. Almost two-and-a-half billion are without adequate sanitation. And two to five million people—mostly children—die every year from preventable waterborne diseases.
Over one billion people lack access to adequate water. Almost two-and-a-half billion are without adequate sanitation. And two to five million people—mostly children—die every year from preventable waterborne diseases.
Water touches on everything—the health of humans and ecosystems; the way we use energy and raw materials and grow food; global climate change; population and economic dynamics; even potential conflict and political stability. Yet analysis of water issues remains stuck in outmoded, 20th-century paradigms.
To respond to this challenge, the Woodrow Wilson Center's Environmental Change and Security Project (ECSP) launches its new initiative Navigating Peace: Forging New Water Partnerships. Funded by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, Navigating Peace will bring together diverse sets of individuals to generate policy alternatives for world water problems. To learn more, click here.
The Environmental Change and Security Program (ECSP) explores the connections between environmental change, health, and population dynamics and their links to conflict, human insecurity, and foreign policy. Read more
