Water

flood preparation; infrastructure

In marking World Toilet Day on November 19, we want to reaffirm the World Bank’s support to the Kyrgyz Republic in raising living standards of its citizens: improving people’s access to safe water…

Around 80 percent of Central Asia’s limited arable land area is irrigated and, in many countries, agriculture contributes substantially to national export earnings. The region’s irrigation and…

The climate change crisis is impacting food production systems in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and transforming food insecurity into a humanitarian crisis. With 660 million people risking starvation…

With about a third of the world’s water resources, Latin America has the highest water endowment per capita, nearly four times the global average. Even so, as many as 150 million people or about a…