Localized water shortages are not new in Algeria. In the summer of 2021, for instance, Algiers—the capital, which lies 165 miles to the north of Tiaret—endured interruptions in water access ...

The city of Kabul in Afghanistan is at risk of becoming the first modern capital to run out of water, according to a recent ...

For over two decades, satellites have quietly documented a major crisis unfolding beneath our feet: Earth's continents are ...

Now, a new study that examines the world’s total supply of fresh water — accounting for its rivers and rain, ice and aquifers ...

Explore how Kuwait, the only country without natural lakes or rivers, leverages desalination and innovative technologies to ...

The report, Not Everyone is in the Same Boat; Climate and Inequality in the Middle East and North Africa, draws on research by the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) and Oxfam and shows how those ...

Water scarcity will intensify with climate and socioeconomic change, disproportionately impacting populations located in the Global South. So concludes a new Utrecht University article published ...

The legacies of colonialism and apartheid means that Black communities – who make up 81.4% of South Africa’s population – still do not have the same water access as white communities.

In a breakthrough that feels straight out of science fiction, engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) ...