News from IFGR and the rivers

Contrary to many communications that point to a lack of water in Africa, a report issued by the British NGO WaterAid estimates that the region has enough water to satisfy different needs, provided that the resources are managed better.       The assertion is strong: the groundwater resources of sub-Saharan Africa are sufficient to […]

On the occasion of the COP15 against desertification held in May in Ivory Coast, the UN published a new report that estimated that the duration of drought episodes has increased by 29% in barely twenty years. The impacts of the availability of water resources are very severe: this year, more than 2.3 billion people, i.e. […]

The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), in its report The State of the Global Climate 2021 published on 18 May 2022, states that four key indicators of climate change – the concentration of greenhouse gas, rising sea levels, the warming of oceans, and their acidification – reached new records in 2021. The climate change before our […]

Following on from the breaching of the planetary limit for chemical pollution at the beginning of the year, a 6th limit has just been breached, that of green water, that’s to say rainwater absorbed by plants. Along with blue water, it is a basic component of the water cycle, according to the model of nine […]

It’s worse than imagined. According to a study of unprecedented scale carried out by a team of scientists from York University, pharmaceutical pollution affects every river in the world. The concentration of drugs in rivers henceforth represents a threat for both river ecosystems and human health.   A large scale study This study is exceptional […]

According to the Pacific Institute, conflicts related to water are increasing considerably around the world. The database Water Conflict Chronology, built by the research centre in the 1980s and whose last update was published in March 2022, proposes the categorisation and archiving of all the violent incidents involving water since the oldest known war for […]