United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

At a glance

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction is a international organization that is part of the pulse of the water sector. Here we bring together everything it publishes on Smart Water Magazine: its news, its blogs and the events it takes part in.

UN report: Human activity contributing to an increasing number of disasters

World could undo social and economic advances and face 1.5 disasters a day by 2030, according to UN’s flagship Global Assessment Report.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction · 26 Apr 2022

30 Jun 2021

Assessment report launched with stark warnings that drought could be next pandemic

The UN agency responsible for leading global disaster risk management has warned that drought affects more people than any other slow onset disaster and will determine the course of human development in the coming years as the climate emergency worsens. “Drought is on the verge of becoming the next pandemic and there is no vaccine […]