After being called the “city of blossom” due it its flowers, roses and jasmine, Libya’s Derna has become contaminated by bacteria due to the decomposition of corpses that were killed in the devastating flooding caused by Storm Daniel on September 10....

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday delivered an urgent call for the world to modify and safeguard water resources to avert conflict and ensure future global prosperity.Water is "the most precious common good," and "needs to be at the cen...

Turkey will release more water flows from the Tigris River to its southern neighbor, Iraq, as a sign of a breakthrough in the water stress crisis that has been facing Iraq since 2015 due to the impacts of climate change and the ongoing building of da...

By AFPThousands of demonstrators defied an official ban to march on Saturday against the deployment of new water storage infrastructure for agricultural irrigation in western France, some clashing with police.Clashes between paramilitary gendarmes an...

Residents of Jackson, Mississippi, most of whom are black, have lost access to clean water since last month, an incident described as a “climate justice wake-up call” that reflects how African-Americans have been abandoned by the country.In August, a...

Iraq’s political turmoil of failing to form a government has prevented the country from addressing the crisis of acute water scarcity, especially in southern provinces, where citizens are at risk of insecurity of drinking water.The United Nations lab...

Located 820 kilometers west of Cairo, Fatnas Lake is one of tourist places in Siwa Oasis where hundreds of tourists come to enjoy splendid sunset behind olive trees. However, tourists nowadays are deprived of seeing this spectacular scenery after the...

By AFPFaced with a historic drought and threatened by desertification, Spain is rethinking how it spends its water resources, which are used mainly to irrigate crops."We must be extremely careful and responsible instead of looking the other way," Spa...

By AFPA record 90 out of 96 mainland French regions face water restrictions due to an ongoing drought, official figures showed on Tuesday, as scorching temperatures and low rainfall cause supply shortages in many areas.Only a handful of "departments"...

In Morocco, which the World Bank declared one of the most water-stressed countries in the world, the Water Distribution, Electricity and Liquid Sanitation Administration of the Provinces of El Jadida and Sidi Bennour (RADEEJ) announced that it is for...

Iraq is projected to be one of the countries most affected by drought and desertification, as its land degradation is increasing annually on a large scale due to dust storms, lack of rain, shortage of inbound water flow on the Tigris and Euphrates ri...