🌍🚰This
#WorldWaterWeek, meet an unexpected ally for water: space!
🌊 Water sustains people, ecosystems and livelihoods, generates clean energy and shapes our landscapes. But desertification, drought, flooding and coastal erosion can have devastating consequences for communities.
🛰️ Space can help us protect this precious resource. Satellite data helps us monitor water resources, detect changes and anticipate droughts and floods, to help communities prepare, respond and adapt.
🇺🇳Here’s 4 ways UNOOSA is putting space to work for water:
1️⃣ Space4Water connects countries and experts with space-based tools, knowledge and training, with a strong focus on developing countries.
2️⃣ UN-SPIDER helps countries use satellite data before, during and after water-related disasters.
3️⃣ The Space4Ocean Alliance, for which UNOOSA is a founding member and Secretariat, brings together 32 space-related entities to advance the use of space-based solutions for marine challenges.
4️⃣ Digita...