Last month, the United Nations published an eye-opening study highlighting that we have moved into a state of ‘global water bankruptcy’. The report underscored that many of the world’s water systems can no longer return to their natural baseline and called for better protection of water-related natural capital before it’s too late.
While this study was making the headlines, EJN’s first cohort of story grantees in the Western Balkans—a region which holds Europe’s last remaining natural rivers—were wrapping up their reporting projects, digging into the state of the region’s aquatic ecosystems and underlining the importance of stronger regulations to safeguard them.
In this newsletter we share with you the highlights from these projects, as well as a crucial new media landscape assessment on environmental journalism in the Western Balkans. Read the assessment and accompanying op-ed written by EJN’s Western Balkans mentor, Jelena Džombić, below.
Also in this newsletter, we introduce the five media grantees strengthening local reporting on progress toward the 30×30 marine conservation target, 18 reports on hard-to-quantify impacts of climate change on communities along the Bay of Bengal, a new extreme weather project in the Philippines and much more.
We will be back in your inbox next month, where we’ll be sharing highlights from our capstone event in Bangkok, Thailand. Until then, don’t forget to follow us across our social channels for more updates and opportunities!
https://collections.unu.edu/eserv/UNU:10445/Global_Water_Bankruptcy_Report__2026_.pdf
Source: Earth Journalism Network
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