WeSenseIt
Given the large diffusion of mobile phones, citizens can complement the often insufficient density and resolution of data collected by traditional monitoring networks. ...
AfriAlliance Conference Session: New Data Streams, Education & Multi-Stakeholder Interactions
25 March 2017 This interactive session, moderated by Bettina Genthe from CSIR, had three diverse and inspiring contributors: Dr. Marieke de Groen about TAHMO (Trans-African HydroMeterological ...
Citizen Science Festival 2020
A public Citizen Science Festival organised by Wissenschaft im Dialog (WiD), the European Citizen Science Association (ECSA) and the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN) will take place as part of the ...
KidronNar Project Flyer – Citizen Observatories for Decentralised Wastewater Management in Palestine
In the Wadi El Nar river basin, the KidronNar project helped to set up citizen observatories to create awareness about the sources, amounts and uses of water and, ultimately, contribute to the ...
Use environmental assessments
River basin organisations need to enforce policies to prevent water pollution and use environmental assessments to understand and mitigate impacts of agriculture, livestock and aquaculture to produce ...
SES2019 – 5th Edition Of The CERES International Conference
Social-Ecological Systems: From Risks and Insecurity to Viability and Resilience The CERES, in partnership with many institutions, will organize its 5th International Conference on October 24-26, 2019 ...
Manual for the Rapid Ecological Reserve Determination of Inland Wetlands (Version 2.0)
The first step in the Water Resource Management cycle is the determination of a vision for the desired future state of the resource. This vision sets both the aspirations and constraints for the ...
Development of a revised desktop model for the determination of the ecological reserve for rivers
The previous version of the Reserve Desktop model was based on hydrology and regional parameters, which were largely based on seasonal distributions of stream flow. A recent development in EWR ...
IRIS
Current practices in risk assessment and management for industrial systems are characterized by its methodical diversity and fragmented approaches. In retrospect these risk and safety paradigms ...
Calls for improved health and water risk management following COVID-19
Improved and increasingly integrated risk management structures are needed to combat health and water-related disasters following the COVID-19 pandemic, according to experts at the International ...
Blog: How do we move towards resilient water-wise cities in Africa?
Water is pivotal to our development as a people, and in Africa it will be the defining resource in our shared urban future. How we respond to the multiple water challenges and the way we manage water ...
BRACED: Resilience Exchange
An increased and stable income, supported by access to appropriate financial services, can help build people’s capacity to manage hard times, particularly if they are linked to climate services that ...
Water Summit for Global Development 2022 - Catching up with urbanisation
Join on 15 March 2022 at the Water Summit for Global Development to discuss how multidisciplinary science, technology, policy and innovation can improve access to water. And how we can achieve this ...
Fourth Mediterranean Water Heroes Contest on “Water and Climate Change”
Every year, World Water Day draws the world’s attention to key global water issues. World Water Day 2020 will focus on Water and Climate Change. Youth has an important role to play in working towards ...
World Water Day 2016 – No water, no jobs!
22 March 2016 The connection between water and jobs is not necessarily an obvious one. This year’s World Water Development Report (WWDR 2016) is dedicated to examining this relationship. It analyses ...
Uganda Water and Environment Week (UWEWK) 2019
Uganda Water and Environment Week (UWEWK) is a week long event that is organized annually by Ministry of Water and Environment (MWE), spearheaded by Water Resources Institute (WRI). Since its ...
World Water Development Report 2020 ‘Water and Climate Change’
The 2020 edition of the World Water Development Report (WWDR 2020) entitled ‘Water and Climate Change’ helps the water community to tackle the challenges of climate change and informs the climate ...
World Water Day 2021
On 22 March, we celebrate World Water Day 2021! This year, the topic of World Water Day is Valuing Water - what water means to people, its true value and how we can better protect this vital resource ...
