Unless African cities improve water management many will face severe water problems by 2035.
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Some remote Australian communities have access to drinking water for only nine hours a day but can use ten times the average of urban households.
The declared end of Flint, Mich., contaminated water crisis echoes similar claims worldwide. Evidence shows victims of past and ongoing water crises, especially Indigenous people, continue to suffer.
A lack of decent sanitation and clean drinking water are fertile ground for a cholera outbreak.
Progress in terms of water and sanitation has traditionally favoured those with money. But the hope with the SDG’s is that this gap will be plugged in the future.
Current land-use patterns could see the value of ‘ecosystem services’ – the natural processes that sustain life – plummet by mid-century. But with the right policies we can turn this trend around.
Freshwater is one of the most threatened resources on Earth. Dragonflies can tell us what we need to know about the state of this precious resource.
There have been modest improvements in water and sanitation provision in Africa, but there is still a long way to go. Most citizens rate their governments’ performance in this sphere poorly.
Archaeological and textual detective work is filling in some information about how ancient Romans used and thought about their sewers thousands of years ago.
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Distinguished visiting professor, University of Glasgow
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Professor in Practice on Environmental Innovation, School of Social and Environmental Sustainability, University of Glasgow, UK, National University of Singapore
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Professor of Ecological Economics, UCL
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Clinical Microbiologist, Public Health Ontario. Assistant professor Department of Biology and Molecular Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences;, Queen's University, Ontario
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Professor, Conservation Ecology & Entomology, Stellenbosch University
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Professor, Department of Geography and the Environment, University of Denver
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PhD Student, Department of Political Science, Michigan State University
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Deputy Director of the Afrobarometer & Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and MSU’s African Studies Center, Michigan State University
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Professor, Director, Griffith University
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Lecturer and course director in Water Science, Policy and Management, University of Oxford
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Research scientist and Adjunct Associate Professor, Adelaide University
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PhD student, Environmental Studies, Queen's University, Ontario
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Stellenbosch University
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Research Scholar, School of Law, SOAS, University of London
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Director DNDi Eastern Africa and Senior Principal Research Scientist, KEMRI, Kenya Medical Research Institute