Development and
Cooperation

Digital monthly 6/2020

Water supply and climate crisis

The DBL Group’s dyeing and printing units in Bangladesh use a lot of water.
Water treatment

“Each drop of water matters”

DBL Group, a Bangladeshi garments producer, recycles its industrial water

We'd love to spend our time on something else than fetching water.
UN prognosis

The climate crisis is ­­exacerbating water stress

UN report highlights challenges related to water stress

Water kiosks like here in Tanzania offer an important interim solution for supplying the poor population without access to piped water.
International cooperation

Averting “Day Zero”

How to improve urban water supply in sub-Saharan Africa

More Articles

Lining up to get water in Chennai in the summer of 2019.
Water crisis

Vital resource

The climate crisis and overuse of water put the water supply in many countries at risk

Waterfalls in Chile’s Queulat National Park: when glaciers are diminished, entire water-catchment basins feel the impacts downstream.
Water crisis

Parched and privatised

Chile faces serious water shortages due to the climate crisis

A woman in Harare, Zimbawe’s capital city, bringing home water.
Household chore

Gender injustice

Unequal income opportunities are the reason why women and girls must fetch water for poor families

Not enough water: women collecting drinking water from a truck in Chennai in June 2019.
Water

Marginalised women’s plight

Women’s stressful duty of procuring water

Too much water – flooded neighbourhood in December 2015.
Urban life

No water – or too much of it

2019 Chennai suffered a terrible drought – after devastating flooding four years earlier

One of the few water reservoirs in Mauritius.
Governance

“Digitalisation and advanced technologies must be applied”

Mauritius’ water-supply problems result from faulty bad governance