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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. […]

  According to Interpol, every year between 30 and 50% of the world’s water resources are pillaged in total impunity. The agricultural sector is accused as the main culprit, in a situation of hydric stress that aggravates the fear of lacking water. But is it the only reason? Although worrying, this phenomenon has hardly been […]

  Australia’s water management futures are again under discussion as drought impacts and bushfires hit communities. Water and ecological system limits are being reached resulting in fish kills and dwindling water levels in storages. Awareness is also rising around the inequities in current water governance regimes for First Peoples across the Australian continent and beyond*. […]

The extreme heat wave that has hit Australia since December 2018  caused the death of a million fish in the Murray-Darling basin at the beginning of the year. The increase in the water temperature, combined with the fall in river water levels, triggered the proliferation of an algae that deprived the fish of oxygen. According […]

That was the temperature indicated on the thermometer in Western Australia in December 2018. The region was struck by an extreme heatwave. Now, it’s the turn of Southern Australia this January, with temperatures ranging from 8 to 12°C higher than the seasonal average in certain cities. A temperature of 48.9°C was recorded at Port Augusta […]

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