Climate change is having significant impacts on the water and Water Resources Management (WRM) sectors, affecting the availability, quality, and distribution of water resources. Rising temperatures and changing precipitation patterns are altering the timing and amount of water available for human use, agriculture, and ecosystems. Climate change is also leading to more frequent and severe extreme weather events such as floods and droughts, which can cause significant damage to infrastructure and disrupt water supplies.

To address the impacts of climate change on water resources, effective adaptation and mitigation strategies are needed, such as improving water use efficiency, promoting water conservation, and increasing the resilience of water infrastructure. Collaboration and coordination across sectors and stakeholders are critical to achieving effective adaptation and mitigation responses in the water and WRM sectors.

The climate change category will constitute the following sub categories

❖  Disasters, Risks, and Impacts of climate change.

⮚        Water scarcity.

⮚        Water quality.

⮚        Disasters: floods and droughts.

❖  Resilience, Adaptation and Mitigation.

⮚        Adaptation technologies.

⮚        Mitigation technologies.

⮚        Resilience building.

❖  Climate financing.

⮚        Adaptation finance.

⮚        Financing loss and damage.

❖  Regulatory Framework: Laws and policies on Climate Change.

⮚        National climate change act 2016; memorandum on the nomination of members of the climate change council, popular version?