Climate change and the WASH sector
Climate change, and its potential impacts, is making headlines worldwide. But, will climate change also pose new or additional challenges to the WASH sector? Or, will increased investments in climate change adaptation be an opportunity for strengthening sustainability of WASH services? IRC is getting involved in this discussion and documents relevant to this topic will be published in this folder.
Climate change adaptation in the water sector
This book offers a compendium of climate adaptation strategies in the water sector for students, water managers and decision makers.
Climate change: a scapegoat for the world’s water woes?
Is the overwhelming emphasis on water and climate change justified? Roger Calow (ODI), believes that treating development and climate adaptation as separate issues is misguided, and that climate change is just one of the many pressures on water.
Tearfund report discusses impact of climate change on water resources
National plans for managing water are failing to consider the impacts of climate change, resulting in devastating consequences for the world’s poorest people. Tearfund says at least $50 billion a year of new money is needed to help developing countries adapt to climate change.
