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Despite the moral, economic and health imperative to provide everyone with safe drinking water every day, Africa has struggled to achieve or sustain global water policy goals.1,2,3,4 As we enter the third wave of global development goals (2015–2030) following the International Decade of Drinking Water and Sanitation (1980–1990) and the Millennium Development Goals (MDG, 2000–2015), […] More
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Affiliations Centre for Water Resources Studies, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Barret L. Kurylyk Department of Civil and Resource Engineering, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Barret L. Kurylyk Corresponding author Correspondence to Barret L. Kurylyk. More
EDITORIAL 09 October 2019 Researchers are assessing the environmental risks posed by a dam on the Nile. The countries involved should let them finish the job. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam is nearly two-thirds complete.Credit: NASA/Planet Pix/ZUMA Scientists investigating the hydrology of the Nile are likely to have heard the story of their tenth-century predecessor, […] More
1. Keim, M. E. Building human resilience: the role of public health preparedness and response as an adaptation to climate change. Am. J. Prev. Med. 35, 508–516 (2008). Article Google Scholar 2. Sheffi, Y. The Power of Resilience (MIT Press, 2015). 3. What is Resilience and how to Operationalise it? (OECD, accessed 28 June 2018); […] More
1. Shannon, M. et al. Science and technology for water purification in the coming decades. Nature 452, 301–310 (2008). 2. Shi, Z. et al. Ultrafast separation of emulsified oil/water mixtures by ultrathin free-standing single-walled carbon nanotube network films. Adv. Mater. 25, 2422–2427 (2013). 3. Zhang, R.-X., Braeken, L., Luis, P., Wang, X.-L. & Van der, […] More
NEWS 04 October 2019 The Renaissance Dam project has sparked a dispute over Ethiopia’s development needs, versus Egypt’s concerns over water scarcity and climate change. Antoaneta Roussi Search for this author in: Ethiopia’s highland waterfalls, from where the Blue Nile begins.Credit: Hermes/AGF/UIG/Getty Environmental scientists representing Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan are at the heart of an […] More
BOOKS AND ARTS 02 October 2019 Barbara Kiser reviews five of the week’s best science picks. Barbara Kiser Search for this author in: Food or War Julian Cribb Cambridge University Press (2019) Hammered by environmental stresses and mismanagement, our food system is inequitable and unstable. As science journalist Julian Cribb argues in this incisive analysis, […] More
