What is needed to close the billion dollar financing gap to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 6—ensuring the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all—by 2030? In our most read post of the month, Wania Yad, Amanda King, Kelly Bridges, and Thomas Boynton explore a range of financing approaches that can accelerate global access to water and sanitation. 

In our second most read post of the month Cullen Hendrix contributes to our Uncharted Territory series with an examination of whether we are drastically underestimating the impacts of climate on armed conflict.  

Elizabeth B. Hessami spotlights the capacity for peacebuilding in Afghanistan through bolstering the agricultural sector of the country in the fourth most read article. 

A steady stream of water continues in the month as the Wilson Center’s China Environment Forum took the third spot with Ailing J. Bressman looking to Singapore’s reclaimed water scheme as a way to quell China’s thirst. In our fifth most read post, Ladeene Freimuth highlights USAID’s Sustainable Water Partnership’s strategy to develop water allocation plans with transboundary diplomatic collaboration in the Mara River Basin. 

1. Paying for the Spout: Innovative Financing Could Expand Access to Water by Wania Yad, Amanda King, Kelly Bridges, and Thomas Boynton
2. Are We Radically Underestimating the Effects of Climate on Armed Conflict? by Cullen Hendrix
3. Can Singapore’s NEWater Spark a Wastewater Revolution in China? by Ailing J. Bressman
4. How Natural Resources Could Help Build Peace in Afghanistan by Elizabeth B. Hessami
5. Enhancing Water Security and the Role of Diplomacy in Africa’s Mara River Basin and Beyond by Ladeene Freimuth