{"id":31407,"date":"2025-03-23T12:28:34","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T06:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=31407"},"modified":"2025-04-16T11:43:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T06:13:13","slug":"united-nations-world-water-development-report-wwdr-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/united-nations-world-water-development-report-wwdr-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"United Nations World Water Development Report (WWDR) 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>United Nations World Water Development Report Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>The 2025 UN world water development report says that Retreating glaciers threaten the food and water supply of 2 billion people around the world.<\/p>\n<h2>About United Nations World Water Development Report\u00a0<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>WWDR is <strong>UN-Water\u2019s flagship report on water and sanitation<\/strong> issues.<\/li>\n<li>It offers an authoritative and comprehensive assessment of the overall state, use and management of the world\u2019s freshwater resources .<\/li>\n<li><strong>Launched on World Water Day (March 22)<\/strong>, the report focuses on a <strong>different theme each year a<\/strong>nd gives policy recommendations to decision-makers by offering best practices and in-depth analyses.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The WWDR is <strong>published by UNESCO on behalf of UN-Water<\/strong> and its <strong>production<\/strong> is <strong>coordinated by the UNESCO World Water Assessment Programme.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Highlights of the WWDR 2025<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Theme: Mountains and glaciers &#8211; Water towers<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The report says that \u201c<strong>all mountain ranges<\/strong>\u201d have shown <strong>evidence of warming since the early 20th century.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It warns that, as global temperatures rise, more mountain precipitation will fall as rain instead of snow, causing snowpacks to thin and melt earlier in the year.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It finds that receding snow and ice cover in mountain regions could have \u201csevere\u201d consequences for people and nature.<\/li>\n<li>This <strong>acceleration in snowpack melt <\/strong>often <strong>causes river flow to increase<\/strong> in glacier-fed water basins and rivers in the short term.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>However, once the snow melts <strong>beyond a certain threshold<\/strong>, a <strong>\u201cpeak water\u201d point is passed<\/strong> and <strong>river flow declines again<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The report says there is <strong>\u201cstrong evidence<\/strong>\u201d that this <strong>\u201cpeak water\u201d point <\/strong>has <strong>already been passed in <\/strong>the glacial-fed <strong>rivers of the tropical Andes, western Canada and the Swiss Alps.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Meanwhile, <strong>many glaciers have disappeared entirely<\/strong>. For example, Colombia has lost 90% of its glacial area since the mid-19th century, according to the report.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It warns that, as the climate warms, many glaciers will \u201cinevitably\u201d disappear over the coming decades. It points to projections that suggest that <strong>warming of 1.5-4C will cause glaciers to lose 26-41% of their 2015 mass by 2100.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The report highlights a wide range of impacts, including <strong>reduced water for drinking and agriculture<\/strong>, stress on local ecosystems and increased risk of \u201cdevastating\u201d <strong>glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Retreating glaciers <strong>threaten <\/strong>the <strong>food and water supply of 2 billion people <\/strong>around the world.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Two-thirds of all irrigated agriculture<\/strong> in the world is <strong>likely to be affected <\/strong>in some way by receding glaciers and dwindling snowfall in mountain regions, driven by the climate crisis.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>United Nations World Water Development Report FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. Who releases the UN World Water Development Report?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. It is published by UNESCO on behalf of UN-Water.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. What is the theme of the UN World Water Development Report 2025?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Mountains and glaciers &#8211; Water towers<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. When is World Water Day celebrated?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. March 22<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2025\/mar\/20\/glacier-meltdown-risks-food-and-water-supply-of-2bn-people-says-un\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TG<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UN World Water Development Report (WWDR) provides a comprehensive assessment of the state, use, and management of the world\u2019s freshwater resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":31408,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31407","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}