“There are no walls high enough to insulate any of us from the consequences of extreme climate change,” wrote Nick Mabey last month. The same could be said for the refugee and migration crisis facing many parts of the world today, including an exasperated Kenya, detailed in another of our most popular posts. These are problems that no one nation can solve.

Last year was the hottest on record and 2016 is shaping up to be even worse. Along with soaring temperatures though, climate change is most likely to affect you via water. A World Bank report released last month found that the difference between good and bad water management over the next four decades could swing GDP for some regions as much as 20 percent.

A report by the European Union on global food security finds 240 million people are in food stress thanks to conflict, refugee situations, flooding, drought, and El Niño. Part of a 2012 commitment by the EU to better target the root causes of food insecurity, the report analyzes the hunger situation in 70 countries and provides deeper analysis for 20.

Last month Rwanda Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Louise Mushikiwabo spoke at the Wilson Center on a wide-ranging set of issues, from the country’s development successes to the prominent role women have played in post-genocide society.

How will climate change affect you? Probably through water.

That’s the major message of a new World Bank report that finds the ways governments treat water can have a profound effect on the economy.

An alternative to rebuilding Iraq’s dangerously unstable Mosul Dam? Rapprochement between Turkey, Iraq, and the Kurds, writes Azzam Alwash for the Middle East Program in last month’s most-read story. Cooperation over water could be a mechanism for building stability and restoring vital natural resources.

Water, water, everywhere. Water stories accounted for half of the most read last month. New Wilson Center Fellow Sherri Goodman outlined three principles to creating a “water-ready” world. Heather Chen highlighted a four-part update by the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation on Lake Turkana as the Gibe III Dam begins operation. Florian Krampe outlined results from a research project in rural Nepal on the effects of small hydro projects. And Alec Crawford and Angie Dazé explained lessons learned about incorporating migrant populations into conservation projects around Lake Albert.