Between Drought and Drowning: Lessons from the Maldives, Pakistan, and Sudan

Monday, March 27, 2023 | 4-5:30pm ET | Emerson 104, 25 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Erum Sattar, Former Program Director, M.S. in Sustainable Water Management and Water Diplomacy Track Leader, Tufts University

Co-sponsors: Center for International Development at Harvard University, Harvard University Center for the Environment, and Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute at Harvard University

This is a hybrid event. RSVP to attend in person or via Zoom

 

March is the month of the UN Water Conference, 2023, the first global conference on water in nearly five decades. Climate change and the water cycle are closely connected. The world is confronting a triple water crisis: long term decline in water supplies, degrading water quality, and increasing variability between extremes. These interlinked global crises act locally in particular places and impact the vulnerable the most. While being the defining challenge of our time, the climate and water crisis could also be the catalyst for Muslim-majority countries to tackle longstanding inequalities within their societies and to build a coalition across countries that works for their peoples. To do this, there needs to be a singular focus on climate-related knowledge development that taps into their social and spiritual resources. Learning from three countries facing sea-level rise, increasing floods and droughts we aim to draw lessons for a way forward.