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Water for health, climate, and sustainable development
Start reading research that connects water, health, climate, and sustainability with these selected articles.
Water is a global issue that touches a number of other areas of our lives: health, climate, access to food, and emergency responses, among many others. This collection of research articles and opinion pieces from across our journals begin to illustrate the multidisciplinary nature of the topic, the impact that water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) can have on our lives, and what we can do to improve the overall health of our planet.
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Issues that should be addressed at the UN 2023 Water Conference
Water, health, and human rights
Realtime assessment of WASH coordination in three humanitarian emergencies
Climate, environment, and biodiversity
Water remains a blind spot in climate change policies
The value of standing forests for birds and people in a biodiversity hotspot
Sustainable development
Identifying beneficiaries for sustainable development in low- and middle-income countries
Citizen science
Bridge over changing waters–Citizen science for detecting the impacts of climate change on water
Improve water quality through meaningful, not just any, citizen science
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