Climate Change and Water Security in Burkina Faso and Niger |WaterAid West Africa

With climate change making rainfall less predictable and flooding more likely, the need to reach everyone with safe WASH services is more urgent than ever. Without climate-resilient services, communities will struggle to adapt to climate change and withstand natural disasters.

Water insecurity is also determined by interrelated non-climatic factors, such as geographic location, demography, water availability, use and management, legal frameworks for water management, governance structures and institutions, and ecosystem resilience.

This study focuses on the situation in two Sahelian countries: Burkina Faso and Niger, with the main objective of better understanding the present and future impacts of climate change on water resources, particularly in terms of water security. It makes recommendations to governments for policies and programs that integrate water security and climate change adaptation to ensure access to WASH services for all, everywhere by 2030.

WaterAid is campaigning for better integration and financing of WASH as a means of adaptation to climate change and for its inclusion in National Adaptation Plans to accelerate the achievement of SDGs.  For more information click here.