Changes

When I think of drought regions around the world, it seems simple: places where a lack of water or reduced water is found (or not found) at various water resource points. I thought drought primarily happened in desert-prone areas, so I figured a study on drought would be mainly for those regions. It turns out I was wrong! With climate change effects on the rise, drought actually affects many regions as well as economies, gender, food security, and so much more. For the past few months at Akvo, we have been slowly integrating the 113 page ''Desk study: Resilient WASH systems in drought prone areas'', by CARE Nederland (on drought and making water systems more drought resilient) into Akvopedia, Akvo’s online encyclopedia for everything WASH-related.