This spring, the World Bank launched a new initiative to tackle a growing problem plaguing the world’s most fundamental resource: water. The program, dubbed Water Forward, is aiming to improve water access for 1 billion people over the next four years, as the resource comes under strain.

More than 70% of the earth’s surface is covered in good old H2O, so it would seem there’s plenty to go…

At the 2026 World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings, World Bank Water Program Manager Sarah Nedolast joined GZERO’s Tony Maciulis to discuss global efforts to tackle water scarcity.

Nedolast highlighted the scale of the challenge, noting that more than two billion people lack access to safe water, while current systems risk falling short of feeding the world by 2050. “Incremental change…

As missiles fly and oil prices soar, the Iran war is exposing another major resource vulnerability in the Middle East: water. Drinking water has been a scarce commodity in a region defined by a dry climate and low rainfall, but attacks on the region’s desalination plants, which convert seawater into potable water, threaten to open a new front.

At least two desalination plants have been…

More than 1,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) from the Kadugyi (Konglong) area of Mawkmai Township, southern Shan State, remain unable to return home despite a recent decrease in fighting, local aid workers said. Heavy clashes erupted in early February when joint forces of the military council and the Pa-O National Army (PNA) launched an offensive […]

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