World Water Day
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Strategies for Safe Drinking Water: Ensuring Lead-Free Taps for All
On World Water Day, Columbia researchers explore the best options for replacing America’s aging pipes.
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The U.S. Water Challenge: Watch the Video
Most American’s live with the expectation that fresh water will continue to flow freely from their faucets. The reality is that environmental degradation, an aging water infrastructure, water scarcity, job instability, and the ability to provide food for a growing population are now pressing issues.
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Geocharts: Water Challenges Around the World
View four interactive maps that give an overview of some of the water challenges different parts of the world currently face.
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Photo Essay: India, Water, Culture
Take a photographic journey from the crowded streets of Delhi, through the parched state of Rajasthan, and into the farmlands of north Gujarat to get a closer look at some of the many ways water affects the lives of millions of Indians every day.
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Deeper than Water — New Video and Infographics from the Columbia Water Center
As population grows and demand for food and products increase, so does our demand for water. But in the face of growing pressure on our water resources from depletion, pollution and climate change, we need to make more of what we have.
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Water, Water Everywhere, But Nary a Drop to Drink
It is a unique challenge of our generation that many in the developing world have cellular phones and TVs, but lack reliable access to water. Odd, perhaps, given that water is marketed as essential for life, a human right, and heart rending pictures of women and children walking miles to fetch water are routinely flashed…
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Student ‘Aquanauts’ to Tackle Water Issues
“We would like to take on international problems, problems of development, problems in the United States, but have them done with academic content and interest. Instead of people being sent to random places, we would take engineering companies that have an interest in a particular region in solving a problem, and they would bring the…
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Millennium Villages Shed Light on Water Security
Water is essential to human well-being and economic development. Today, however, water stress caused by inadequate farming practices, demographic pressure and pollution is creating unprecedented problems. Nowhere is this more visible than in the rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa. As the world celebrates World Water Day on the 22nd of March to draw attention to…
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Urban Wastewater: One Man’s Waste Is Another Man’s Treasure
How can we overcome the main challenges we face in our urban wastewater systems today? Are there opportunities to improve sustainability in water treatment systems in US cities to support local food security?
