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Water World
by World Bank GroupWater World is a podcast series brought to you by the World Bank’s Water Global Practice and the Global Water Security and Sanitation Partnership (GWSP). It explores the issues that are crucial to delivering a water-secure and healthy world for all.
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Episodes
Smarter Subsidies
5m · PublishedDoing More With Less – Smarter Subsidies for Water Supply and Sanitation shows that most existing water supply and sanitation subsidies are pervasive, expensive, poorly-targeted, non-transparent and distortionary. Yet if designed in smart and targeted ways and implemented effectively, subsidies can be powerful and progressive tools that help ensure all people benefit from water supply and sanitation services.
From Unknown To Urgency
5m · PublishedQuality: Unknown — The Invisible Water Crisis presents new evidence and data that call urgent attention to the hidden dangers lying beneath the water’s surface. This podcast explains how poor water quality stalls economic progress, stymies human potential, and reduces food production.
Putting Nature to Work
4m · PublishedThis podcast explains how a new generation of infrastructure projects that harness the power of nature can help achieve development goals, including water security and climate resilience. In a new report from the World Bank and World Resources Institute, both organizations are calling for green infrastructure, such as mangroves and wetlands, to play a bigger role in traditional infrastructure planning.
Rising To The Challenge Of A Changing World
4m · PublishedIn 2017, the World Bank with its partners launched a new initiative for a water-secure world, the Global Water Security and Sanitation Partnership (GWSP), housed within the World Bank’s Water Global Practice. This podcast provides a snapshot of its first year of delivery. It shows how by bringing innovation, new knowledge and evidence, and flexibility to World Bank lending operations, the GWSP helps clients achieve even more significant and more sustainable results.
From Water Scarce Cities to Water Secure Cities
7m · PublishedPopulation growth, economic expansion and climate change are increasing the pressures on limited water supplies in cities around the world. A holistic approach is needed to help water scarce cities develop resilient strategies for long-term water security. That’s why the World Bank’s Water Scarce Cities initiative is collaborating with urban water practitioners, global thought leaders, and institutions in over 20 water scarce cities to document and share innovative strategies.
Let Everyone Reap the Benefits of Water
7m · PublishedWater belongs to everyone and yet many are excluded from its benefits and often from ownership and control of this critical resource. Inclusion – ensuring everyone reaps the benefits of water – is central to achieving universal access to water and sanitation and the way the World Bank thinks about policy and programs, because prosperity is best when shared.
Resilience To Survive and Thrive
4m · PublishedWhat does resilience mean when it comes to water? Is it really that important? Experts explain in this podcast.
Fixing The Institutions That Fix The Pipes
5m · PublishedWaterWorld is a new podcast series brought to you by the World Bank's Water Global Practice and the Global Water Security and Sanitation Partnership (GWSP). It explores the issues that are crucial to delivering a water-secure and healthy world for all.
Water Flows Through the SDGs
6m · PublishedWater World is a new podcast series brought to you by the World Bank’s Water Global Practice and the Global Water Security & Sanitation Partnership (GWSP). It explores the issues that are crucial to delivering a water-secure and healthy world for all. Join us every two weeks to learn more!
Water World has 9 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 51:29. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on November 21st 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on March 14th, 2024 07:43.