Living in poverty often means a struggle for water security. Rapid urban growth, unregulated pollution from industry, extreme floods and droughts, lack of reliable and safe drinking water, and increasing damage to water ecosystems threaten economies and undermine the lives of the poor. Improving water security is an important pathway to sustainable growth and poverty reduction worldwide.
Through the REACH programme (2015-2025), the University of Oxford brought together an international consortium of government, UNICEF, academic institutions, private sector and civil society partners to improve water security and climate resilience for over 10 million people in Africa and Asia. The programme was funded by the UK Government's Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office.
The ORA REACH Water Security Collection offers a portal into the many journal articles, working papers, reports, and datasets produced by the University of Oxford and partner institutions in Kenya, Bangladesh, Ethiopia and beyond under the REACH programme. To find out more about the University of Oxford's ongoing research on water security, visit the Oxford Water Network website.
Featured Work
Featured Work
Creating an enabling environment for research impact (REACH Discussion document)
Oxford water security research elsewhere
Oxford and Water Security Research
Oxford Water Security research elsewhere
REACH Water Security research partners (2015-2025)
- UNICEF
- International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
- International Water Association (IWA)
- Skat Foundation hosting the Rural Water Supply Network (RWSN)
- IRC
- Water and Land Resource Centre (WLRC)
- Addis Ababa University
- Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET)
- University of Dhaka
- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
- Institute for Climate Change and Adaptation, University of Nairobi