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Three types of drought – and why there’s no such thing as a global water crisis

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25 July 202525 July 2025

Lithium ponds in the Atacama Desert, Chile | NASA Earth Observatory, 2018 Hosepipe bans have been announced in parts of England this summer. Following the driest spring in over a...Read More >

England’s water crisis needs more than just new reservoirs – here’s what will help

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3 June 2025

The UK government wants to build more reservoirs like this one (Derwent reservoir) in the Peak District England is facing a water crisis. The UK government has just announced plans to fast-track...Read More >

Why it’s time for new approaches to environmental and health issues in the EU

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28 March 2023

An article recently published in Environmental Science & Policy suggests that current economic approaches to addressing environmental and health issues in the European Union suffer from a lack of imagination,…Read More >

IMPREXive game highlights importance of forecasting in flood management

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9 April 201930 April 2019

How easy is it to predict a flood based on weather forecasts? Could your predictions save a city from flooding? Louise Arnal and Professor Hannah Cloke from the University’s Weather…Read More >

News from Prosperity & Resilience: Henny Osbahr and Walker Institute

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6 October 2017

In January 2017, more than 40 institutions from Burkina Faso, Ghana and the UK were present in Accra for the BRAVE Project Annual General Meeting.

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