Karlye Wong

🇨🇦 sustainability, water, and climate • engineer • formally @CanadaTanzania @wateraid •Queen's U - UofT Drinking Water Research Group • views are my own •

[World Bank Water @WorldBankWater]

To achieve the SDG targets for safe water and sanitation, the world faces an annual spending shortfall of US$131.4B to US$140.8B. How can governments revitalize water investments?

Find out in the Water-Secure Future report: https://t.co/aopIyUGkDN

[UNDRR @UNDRR]

The Philippines 🇵🇭 uses flood simulations to assess potential impacts and prepare for floods. 🌊
🚨This information is used to trigger timely early warnings and early action.
Multi-hazard early warning systems allow people to prepare for potential dangers
#EarlyWarningsForAll

[UN-Water @UN_Water]

Climate shocks: Estimates of people exposed, vulnerable, and at high risk

More than half the global population – around 4.5 billion people – are at high risk of experiencing an extreme weather event, such as a flood, drought, cyclone, or heatwave.
➡️ https://t.co/f0S7sxoxWn

[World Bank Water @WorldBankWater]

💧Water scarcity
🌽Declining crop productivity
🌊Sea level rise

Learn how #ClimateChange could drive millions of people to migrate within their countries by 2050: https://t.co/dxi6j2mFbB #Groundswell #ClimateStories_WBG #MigrantsDay #IMD2023

[Karlye Wong @karlyewong]

Should be a great week in #Dubai @IntlUVAssn 💡

[WaterAid Tanzania @WaterAidTZ]

NEW PUBLICATION: Sanitation plays a vital role in building climate resilience. This new report sets out the need for a systems-wide perspective along the entire sanitation service chain and key opportunities and approaches to achieve this. Read more here:
https://t.co/n1GiWOPW3D

[IslaUrbana @IslaUrbana]

With great pride and emotion we share this recent @ABCNewsLive report about the #WaterCrisis in Mexico, where @ELomnitz talks about rainwater harvesting 🌧️ as an alternative to combat the shortage of water in Mexico 🚰
We invite you to watch the video 👇
https://t.co/w0E7Ab1qil

[IslaUrbana @IslaUrbana]

Este #DíaMundialDelAgua queremos evidenciar el invisible mundo de #ElAguaDeLasCosas💧
Les compartimos el micrositio 💻 donde podrán profundizar sobre los temas de los que estuvimos hablando estas últimas semanas
Lxs invitamos a darle click 👇
https://t.co/AXyrBRKetr
🧵👇

[Karlye Wong @karlyewong]

Congrats to my pal @BrodieVoices for taking the plunge and starting his own podcast. Let’s goooooooo 🔥

[Voice Actor • Alex Brodie @BrodieVoices]

My podcast about starting the Dad Journey is launching tomorrow 🥹😍

@karlyewong you suggested it, and I’m delivering!

Teaser below ⬇️ @HELPImADadCast

#PodcastAndChill #dadlife #parenting

[Voice Actor • Alex Brodie @BrodieVoices]

My podcast about starting the Dad Journey is launching tomorrow 🥹😍

@karlyewong you suggested it, and I’m delivering!

Teaser below ⬇️ @HELPImADadCast

#PodcastAndChill #dadlife #parenting

[SickKids Global Child Health @SickKidsGlobal]

Today is #WNTDD2023! We call on @CanadaDev to do more to ensure #WASH4All, including for people living w/& at risk of NTDs. This statement endorsed by @SickKidsGlobal calls for greater 🇨🇦 engagement in a healthy, more equitable🌎: https://t.co/vREDgFIese @WaterAidCanada @Can_NTDs

[Given Edward @GIVENALITY]

The channel is LI Dancer Chriss. If you go check their channel you can if understand why.

Overall here are all-time top earners on YouTube from Africa.

[Karlye Wong @karlyewong]

@Priya_Nicole @diamondplatnumz @sarkodie STOP IT

[Wetlands International @WetlandsInt]

Nearly half of the world's irrecoverable carbon is locked away in wetland ecosystems.
via @VisualCap, @nature_org

👉 https://t.co/nFFC16SDdE

[Priya Nicole Sippy @Priya_Nicole]

Swahili is fast growing across Africa - now taught in schools across South Africa, Botswana, & universities in Ghana & Ethiopia. Could it become Africa's common language?

Big thank you to Ally Saleh Khalfan & Dr Josephine Dzahene-Quarshie:
https://t.co/QyWFaUjIrf
@awamisammy

[Alliance for Global Water Adaptation (AGWA) @Alliance4Water]

We love these infographics on #WaterSecurity and #ClimateChange from the @IDS_UK K4D Learning Journey on Water Security https://t.co/CtiCHJFq8c

[Karlye Wong @karlyewong]

Great opportunity for overseas grad students

[Caetano Dorea - PH2E Lab @PH2E_UVic]

Know of any emerging talent (grad students) from any of the countries below?

Here's a scholarship opportunity for a 6 month research stay in Canada: https://t.co/JLc81RpGwC

[Karlye Wong @karlyewong]

Interesting fact:
The last major volcano injected enough SO2 into the atmosphere to lower the Earth's temp for a couple years.

Nope - not the case here. 🙃
https://t.co/WFk9JcIfmZ

[alannah travers @AlannahTravers]

Ahead of two major climate summits in Egypt and the UAE, this @AMEJA panel promises to discuss covering climate, energy + the environment in the Middle East.

Moderated by @JenHijaz, a week today. With @GebeilyM, @AtyyatFarah, @GhadaaSharif + @ABarnardNYT
https://t.co/673TlDnzIx

[Rise up Movement @Riseupmovt]

“The worst drought in decades is gripping eastern Africa parching landscapes, killing livestock and creating a humanitarian crisis. Driven by climate change, it's also leading to civil strife, as shepherding communities battle- -for scarce resources.” https://t.co/WSBU5Tngng