Vanity Fair Italia reports on Imaginarium, an annual event at the headquarters of the Riccardo Catella Foundation, where Smith School HRA Giulio Boccaletti delivered a talk against “blue washing” - commercial practices that exploit the issue of water sustainability.

Professor Rob Hope sheds light on the fact that more than four billion people do not have safe drinking water, according to a new study in Science that suggests the scale of the health and poverty problem is twice as bad as feared.

Two Oxford Smith School programmes were awarded in the recent Vice Chancellors awards. The Global Youth Climate Training programme - a Smith School, School of Geography and Global Youth Coalition initiative - won the Environmental Sustainability Award. REACH, a global research programme to improve water security led by Professor Rob Hope, won the VC's Research Engagement Award. 

As our water systems struggle under financial mismanagement and the pressures of climate change, higher water costs are something we’re all going to have to swallow.

Dr Alex Money, Director of the Innovative Infrastructure Investment programme, comments on water security and climate change risk for Bloomberg and The Washington Post.