The start of 2020 found Australia in the midst of its worst-ever bushfire season – following on from its hottest year on record which had left soil and fuels exceptionally dry. The fires have burned through more than 10 million hectares, killed at least 28 people, razed entire communities to the ground, taken the homes of thousands of families, and left millions of people affected by a hazardous smoke haze. More than a billion native animals have been killed, and some species and ecosystems may never recover. (Photo: Oxfam)In March 2019, Cyclone Idai took the lives of more than 1000 people across Zimbabwe, Malawi and Mozambique in Southern Africa, and it devastated millions more who were left destitute without food or basic services. Lethal landslides took homes and destroyed land, crops and infrastructure. Cyclone Kenneth arrived just six weeks later, sweeping through northern Mozambique, hitting areas where no tropical cyclone has been observed since the satellite era. (Photo: Tommy Trenchard/Oxfam)A girl standing in a dry lake in the Dala township, on the outskirts of Yangon. (AFP Photo)At current predicted rates of sea level rise, all of the Maldives’ around 200 natural inhabited islands could be submerged by 2100 (Credit: Carl Court/Getty Images)A bridge connects Hulhumalé, an artificial island, with Malé, capital of Maldives.A tree-lined avenue in Hulhumalé, an artificial island.Steam rises from cooling towers at the Jaenschwalde coal-fired power plant at Jaenschwalde, Germany. The Jaenschwalde power plant is one of the biggest single producers of CO2 gas in Europe. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)ဂျိုးဖြူရေလှောင်ကန်(Credit: Engineering Department-WatSan,YCDC)ဂျိုးဖြူရေလှောင်ကန်(Credit: Engineering Department-WatSan,YCDC)A rainwater harvesting pond in Jakkur, India.The Veluwemeer (Dutch) or Lake Veluwe is a bordering lake in Holland between the provinces of Flevoland on the western world aspect and Gelderland on the east part.Park visitors explored a part of Lake Powell in Big Water, Utah, in June that used to be underwater. Credit…Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesThe photo was shot by astronaut Randy “Komrade” Bresnik in December 2017. It shows details from the part of the range that includes Mount Everest, which appears without its usual cloud cover.The wide-angle shot shows the Nile Delta in Africa and the Sinai Peninsula. Learn more about it hereကုလားတန်မြစ်ဖျား ချင်းတောင်တန်းဖေ့စ်ဘွတ်ခ်ကုလားတန်မြစ်ဖျား ချင်းတောင်တန်းဖေ့စ်ဘွတ်ခ်ကုလားတန်မြစ်ဖျား ချင်းတောင်တန်းဖေ့စ်ဘွတ်ခ်
Water Security and the Changing Climate 