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IWMI to expand groundbreaking Africa earth observation project
The International Water Management Institute’s (IWMI) Digital Innovations for a Water Secure Africa (DIWASA) project is set to enter its second phase with a grant from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust. While Africa has significant but underutilized water resources, the lack of water infrastructure and good water governance, combined with poor water resources ...
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Scarce water resources of increasing concern to NBIM
Limited access to clean water is a growing risk for an increasing number of the companies the Government Pension Fund Global invests in. The United Nations forecasts that almost half the world’s population will live in areas facing water stress or water scarcity by 2030. Global demand for water is expected to outstrip supply by 40 percent within the same time, according to McKinsey. As ...
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Water scarcity started 15 years ago, says new CSIRO research
New analysis shows that the water scarcity being experienced in southeast Australia started up to 15 years ago. While the results from the work by senior CSIRO researcher, Dr Albert van Dijk, may not surprise many people, it provides scientific evidence of the shift. The finding follows the first ever national and comprehensive analysis of 30 years of on-ground and satellite observations of ...
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Criticality of Science to Water Resources Management
Policy Statement Fully-informed water management decisions are vital to communities across the United States who are dealing with flood, drought, water supply, and water contamination issues every day. Scientific data and studies provide the bedrock foundation of these decisions. It is essential that water managers, planners, researchers, and decision-makers at all levels use evidence-based ...
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AUS$6m to help manage Murray-Darling basin water resources
The Rudd Government is providing AUS$6 million to the eWater Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) for a new hydrologicalmodelling toolto help manage the surface water and groundwater of the Murray-Darling Basin. The project will accelerate development of and trial a new computer model, known as RiverManager, to help make water allocation and use over coming decades more sustainable.Minister for ...
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ESRI UC Water Resources Hydro Meeting Recap
KISTERS North America was proud to yet again be a sponsor of this year’s edition of the ESRI UC Water Resources Hydro Meeting in San Diego, CA. Dr. David Maidment kicked off the Water Resources Hydro meeting with a keynote presentation. His talk energized the audience of water resources professionals as he outlined exciting new projects and initiatives that will shape the future for water ...
By KISTERS
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Tetra Tech Wins $47 Million Contract with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Institute for Water Resources
Tetra Tech, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTEK) announced today that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Institute for Water Resources (USACE IWR) has awarded the Company a five-year multiple-award task order contract to support the USACE’s water resources management programs. The contract has a total award value of up to $47 million. Tetra Tech will support USACE IWR in its mission to identify and address ...
By Tetra Tech
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AUS$50m for new water research alliance
Minister for Climate Change and Water, Senator Penny Wong, has launched a joint initiative between the Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO that will be the largest water information research project in the southern hemisphere. The Water Information Research and Development Alliance (WIRADA) is a five-year, $50 million research partnership between Bureau of Meteorology (the Bureau) and CSIRO. It aims ...
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Water and climate coalition launched during the climate talks in Bonn
A number of well known international organisations and research centers join forces to highlight the role of water in the context of climate change. The newly formed alliance, named the Water and Climate Coalition, is officially launched today at a side event at the climate talks in Bonn. The Water and Climate Coalition, formerly known as the Global Public Policy Network on Water Management ...
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IWMI and partners map the state of water across Africa
In 2020, the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) launched the Digital Innovations for a Water Secure Africa (DIWASA) project, and researchers have been mapping the state of water across Africa since. Africa has significant but underutilized water resources. The lack of water infrastructure, weak water governance and poor water resource management practices, however, are causing water ...
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New Water Calculator Launched by Growing Blue
Growing Blue has launched the Water Impact Index (WIIX) Calculator, a new web-based tool designed to measure and reduce the impact of human activity on local water resources. Available online at www.growingblue.com, the new calculator was designed by Growing Blue founding partner Veolia Water. Most water footprint calculators use volume of water as the indicator to assess impact on the water ...
By Growing Blue
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The WISKI 7 Customer Council
A trend that has been developing in the field of Water Resources Management is the merging of water resource-relevant data structures and functionalities, as well as the removal of interoperability limits between different specialist systems and logics. The German WISKI User Conference 2011, which took place at the Bavarian State Office for the Environment in Hof, confirmed this trend from the ...
By KISTERS
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Intelligent software to manage biological water quality data
Thanks to the complete integration of KiECO in the water resource management system WISKI and the water quality module, users can track and evaluate biological, chemical-physical and hydrological data in a single system. Holistic analyses now possible In this way KISTERS ensures holistic analyses and the identification of relevant interdependencies between the various types of data. The ...
By KISTERS
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AUS$5.4m for atlas of ecosystems dependent on groundwater
Minister for Climate Change and Water, Senator Penny Wong, today announced funding of $5.4 million to develop a comprehensive national „atlas? of groundwater-dependent ecosystems. Senator Wong made the announcement during a visit to Moree on the first day of a three-day tour of the northern Murray-Darling Basin. “Many ecosystems depend on groundwater to support their plants and animals – but ...
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Satellites help locate water in Niger
Like most sub-Saharan African countries, Niger faces problems meeting its water needs. As part of ESA’s TIGER initiative, satellite data are being used to identify surface and underground water resources in the drought-prone country.Due to the rainfall variability in time and in space, during recent years the rain-fed agriculture struggles to meet the requirements of food security in the Sahel ...
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Strategy to assess the US`s groundwater availability
Scientists proposed a strategy to study the Nation's ground-water supply as part of the Federal government's effort to help address the Nation's increasing competition for water. Declines in ground-water levels have led to concerns about the future availability of ground water, which provides half the country's drinking water and is essential to the vitality of agriculture and industry, as well ...
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New tool assesses the effects of global change on water resources
Water resource management needs to adapt to changes in climate, water demand and land use. A new tool has been developed by the LIFE+ Water Change Project to assess these ‘global change’ impacts on water resources and inform decisions on optimal adaptation strategies. A recent study has applied the tool to a river basin in Spain. The quality and quantity of water is strongly affected ...
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Mainstreaming climate prediction into water management crucial
Key sectors such as agriculture, energy, tourism and health will be among those most affected by the impact of climate change on water resources, for example, reduced water availability, a deterioration in water quality, increased runoff and an increase in the salinization of groundwater as a result of sea-level rise. “Mainstreaming climate change in decision-making processes will therefore be ...
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Prince Sultan Prize recognizes Prof. Wheater’s 25 years of hydrological endeavour
Integrated and sustainable management of water resources requires two main capabilities: • appropriate scientific understanding of the hydrology that determines the availability of surface and groundwater resources; and • use of appropriate modelling tools to support assessment of water resource sustainability and the development and evaluation of strategies for integrated management. The ability ...
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Arizona`s First Ever Statewide Study Projecting Water Use Praised by Conservation Group
The first ever statewide report projecting Arizona's water supplies and demands over the next century is a key first step to "ensure that physical limits to water supplies don't limit Arizona's economic prosperity or the legacy of its natural resources," according to Environmental Defense Fund. "This is the kind of forward-looking process that is needed for Arizona to ensure that it has ...
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