Project on Water Security

Improving coherence between U.S. global food security and U.S. global water security policy and programming.

With data-driven research and analysis, the CSIS Project on Water Security will present comprehensive policy solutions to the challenges water insecurity poses to U.S. geopolitical and economic interests, with a special focus on the relationship between global food security and global water security. The CSIS Project on Water Security is supported with the generosity of CSIS Trustee Henrietta Fore and builds upon years of world-class research from CSIS’s Global Food Security Program.

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CSIS Launches Project on Water Security

The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) today announced the CSIS Project on Water Security, a major new effort designed to advance greater understanding of the critical role of water to U.S. national security.

Press Release — July 27, 2023

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Watershed: Agriculture and The Colorado River Crisis

Watershed: Agriculture and The Colorado River Crisis

The Colorado River is in crisis. Due to historically low water flow levels and increasing demand from all states in the basin, water stress in the Colorado River has attracted unprecedented attention from policymakers, the media, and the general public. Caitlin Welsh, Director of The CSIS Project on Water Security and Global Food and Water Security Program, unfolds how water stress in the Colorado River is a story about agriculture, both as a consumer of water and a source of solutions.

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Water and Food: How, When, and Why Water Imperils Global Food Security

World food production will have to grow 50 percent by 2050 to meet rising demands, requiring 30 percent more water than today, fueling concerns that mounting agricultural needs risk colliding with increasingly strained resource supplies.

Critical Questions by David Michel — October 16, 2023

Experts React: What Else Is Needed to Address Global Water Insecurity?

Water security is a multifaceted challenge, made more complicated by climate change and the demands of a growing and urbanizing global population. Here, CSIS experts react to the most urgent threats to water security and offer insight into what more can be done.

Commentary by Caitlin Welsh Franck Gbaguidi Tanvi Nagpal Rod Schoonover and Sera Young — July 26, 2023

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Climate change is intensifying natural disasters, resulting in crop failures, soil deterioration, and forced displacement. Nature-based climate change solutions can stabilize agricultural livelihoods, protect environmental resources, and strengthen political stability.

Commentary by Christian Man and Carolyn Hirshon — February 14, 2020