Water Security

Competing demands for freshwater play out between sectors and regions within the same country, and between nations that vie for access to the water on which their entire economies—agriculture, energy, and industry—rely. This web page is the library for all content on water security by scholars across CSIS. The CSIS Project on Water Security web page present comprehensive policy solutions to the challenges water insecurity poses to U.S. geopolitical and economic interests, with a special focus on global food security, produced by the CSIS Global Food and Water Security Program. The Water and the Future of the Middle East project webpage houses the Middle East Program’s work to energize the policy environment around the issue of water insecurity in the region and provide constructive recommendations for necessary transformation.

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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

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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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Caitlin Welsh

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Director, Global Food and Water Security Program
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Katherine E. Bliss

Senior Fellow and Director, Immunizations and Health Systems Resilience, Global Health Policy Center

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Sera Young, Northwestern University: “Accountability is probably the most powerful tool that we have”

In this episode, Sera Young discusses the relationship between gender and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and explains why it’s important to gather data, not just about men’s and women’s access to water and sanitation infrastructure, but also about how individuals’ experience of water insecurity affects their physical and mental health.

Podcast Episode by Katherine E. Bliss and Sera Young — August 3, 2023

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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

Building the Future: Freedom, Prosperity, and Foreign Policy with Dan Runde

Global Water Security and Safe Water with Mary Beth Cote-Jenssen

In this episode of Building the Future, Dan is joined by Mary Beth Cote-Jenssen who shares insights about the importance of global water security and the role played by public-private partnerships. 

Podcast Episode by Daniel F. Runde — July 26, 2023

CSIS Building the Future

Promoting Primary Health Care during a Health Security Crisis

Given the important role primary health care (PHC) has played in strengthening health systems, taking steps now to prioritize PHC can help ensure continuity of health services and a more effective outbreak response in future health crises and pandemics.

Report by Katherine E. Bliss — April 29, 2022

Water and Sanitation in the Time of Cholera

In October 2010, just nine months after an earthquake devastated the capital city of Port-au-Prince and displaced an estimated 1.5 million people, Haiti’s Ministry of Public Health and Population reported a cholera outbreak in two of the country’s most impoverished regions.

Report by Katherine E. Bliss and Matt Fisher — September 5, 2013