The UN will host the second global water conference in New York on 22-24 March, over forty years after the first gathering in Argentina in 1977. Rob Hope asks: why so long? And, what can this event hope to deliver? 

Maintaining piped networks in rural India to keep water flowing in functional household tap connections is an increasing priority.

Deep valleys contain airborne ‘rivers in the sky’ and help to create arid conditions in East Africa, according to new research from the University of Oxford and the Met Office.

On 8 December, Sophie Erfurth, a DPhil student at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford presented at the Youth Forum event of the UN’s inaugural Groundwater Summit. Sophie conducts research within the School’s Water Programme, led by Professor Rob Hope. 

A major UN report into the state of the world's drinking water calls for urgent action to accelerate progress and ensure safe drinking water for all.