A plan to reshape the administrative structure of the federal agency responsible for foreign aid is prompting questions about how to embed U.S. goals for water access, sanitation, and ecosystems into the bureaucracy’s new hierarchy.
The world's refugee crisis, which is intimately linked with water availability both in the homelands that people escape and in the camps where they find shelter, is large and growing.
Squabbles between South Africa's politicians over who is to blame for Cape Town's water emergency reached such a pitch in recent weeks that leaders, in an attempt to soften the debate, invoked the country's icon of peace and resolve.