ADB opens $100-mn green bond issue to manage glacier melt impacts
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has issued $100 million green bonds to raise awareness of glacier melt across the region.
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Author: IWR Team
ADB approves $182 mn additional funding for Assam flood management project
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved $182 million in additional funding to scale up a ongoing flood and erosion
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Aging populations could cut global water demand by 30 per cent
Against a backdrop of water scarcity emerging as one of the most pressing challenges of the 21st century, there’s good
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Nature-based infrastructure vital to avert Asia’s looming water crisis
Fatima Yasmin The Asia-Pacific has made remarkable progress in water and sanitation over the past decade. Hundreds of millions more people now
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World on verge of entering new era of ‘water bankruptcy’
Against a backdrop of chronic groundwater depletion, water over-allocation, land and soil degradation, deforestation, and pollution, the world is on
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Major river deltas sinking faster than sea-level rise
River deltas sustain dense human populations and major economic centres, but groundwater withdrawal, reduced river sediment supply and urban expansion
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EKKI HOMA ropes in former Grundfos India MD Ranganath as chief advisor
EKKI HOMA, the Indo-German joint venture between EKKI Pumps (India) and HOMA Pumpenfabrik GmbH, has roped in former Grundfos Pumps
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VA Tech Wabag emerges preferred EPC partner for Saudi Arabia ISTP project
Water technology major VA Tech Wabag has emerged as the preferred engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) partner for the Hadda
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AECOM acquires Norway-based AI startup Consigli for $390 mn
US-based global infrastructure consulting company AECOM has acquired Consigli, an artificial intelligence company based in Oslo, Norway in a transaction
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Worldwide glacier loss to hasten by 2050; Alps, central Asia to be among worst hit
Glaciers are melting worldwide. In some regions, they could even disappear completely, some as early as the middle of the
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