Water and Climate Water and Climate While climate negotiators
keep meeting and working hard to reduce the greenhouse gas
emissions and mitigate against climate change, the rest of the
world is learning to adapt to climate change impacts on the
ground. Foremost among those impacts are escalating extremes in
fresh water: too much or too little, too suddenly. Those
extremes will be the order of the day, as new patterns of
rainfall and changes in the availability of fresh water disrupt
supplies across the planet. Although these patterns are complex
and hard to predict, some have already been observed and are
expected to become more apparent in coming decades. In
recognition of this challenge, the World Water Council (WWC), in
partnership with a group of international organizations (UNESCO-
Cooperative Programme on Water and Climate, International Water
Association, IUCN) decided to initiate a political process to
further raise awareness and increase political commitments to
address adaptation of water management t