With climate change impacts accelerating, we need to re-think the human right to water (Institute for Agricultural Trade Policy)

Reuters published an op-ed by Deputy Division Director and Senior Research Fellow Claudia Ringler and coauthors on water and climate. Throughout the world droughts and flooding show how climate change is leading to extreme events that create both uncertainties and irregularities in water availability, with far-reaching impacts on human wellbeing and ecosystem health. The COVID-19 pandemic increases the vulnerabilities of the poor. Even though accessible freshwater resources are adequate at global levels to meet the water needs of the world, from local to global, there is vast inequality in access to water. Republished in Agricultural Trade Policy, Institute of Development Studies.