Water4Dev is a team within the Water Resources Unit one of several scientific units - that makes up the Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES) at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) Ispra, Varese, Italy. Water4Dev activities are aimed at water resources related issues in developing countries.
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PLAZO DE PRESENTACIÓN: 8/5/2013 al 31/5/2013 (la aplicación online cerrará a las 24 h)
As part of its effort to reduce cholera in the world, UNICEF has responded to the growing threat of this disease by launching the UNICEF cholera toolkit, which will help UNICEF staff and partners prevent, prepare for and respond to the disease.
For more information please visit the following page: http://www.unicef.org/health/index_69202.html
The European Report on Development (ERD) 2013 "Post 2015: Global Action for an Inclusive and Sustainable Future" seeks to contribute to the global reflection on the post-2015 development agenda by providing independent research-based analysis, stimulating debate and building common ground among key stakeholders.
Some 2.4 billion people will remain without access to improved sanitation in 2015, according to a new joint WHO/UNICEF report. According to the report, the world remains off track to meet the Millennium Development goal (MDg) sanitation target.
The report titled Progress on sanitation and drinking-water 2013 update is available here in english.
The UKWIR Carbon Accounting Workbook (CAW) provides UK water companies with a consistent and transparent approach for accounting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from their operational activities. The latest version (CAW v7) enables the water industry to continue to calculate its operational emissions using up-to-date guidance and regulations on GHG accounting in the UK and to report to regulatory bodies and customers.
In an ongoing effort to understand the connections between water resources, water systems, and international security and conflict, the Pacific Institute initiated a project in the late 1980s to track and categorize events related to water and conflict, which has been continuously updated since. Their new format, updated November 2009, presents the information three ways, to better illustrate how conflicts over water impact history:
Misperceptions of the drylands as barren and empty are leading to their mismanagement. An IIED mapping project aims to create a clearer picture of their value to pastoralists.
"It's all in the mind," George Harrison once said. When most government planners look at Kenya’s Isiolo County, they see barren, dusty land. But pastoralists who live there see something else entirely. How do we know? It’s on their map.
More than 100 environmental, social and indigenous organisations protested Monday in the Chilean capital to demand that the state regain control over the management of water, which was privatised by the dictatorship in 1981.
More than 6,000 people took part in the peaceful, colourful “great carnival march for the recovery and defence of water” in Santiago, according to the organisers, one of whom was former student leader Camila Vallejo, who plans to run for parliament for the Communist Party.
The worst drought in 50 years is affecting several states in northeast Brazil.
Some of these areas have not seen rain in over a year, while for others, it has been just a few drops since November.
The ongoing drought has been affecting much of northeastern Brazil for several years. It is estimated that upwards of 10 million people have been affected, making it the worst drought since 1963.
For full article please click here.
"Las evaluaciones realizadas por la Fundación Nueva Cultura del Agua, han determinado que más del 50% de las aguas españolas están en mal estado, bien por deterioro de su estado ecológico —extracciones excesivas, alteraciones de los cauces, represamiento de aguas, entre otras— o por contaminación química, un problema que se extiende por el mundo y de la que aún se están investigando sus efectos sobre la salud y el medio ambiente..."
Con motivo de la celebración del Día Mundial del Agua y el Año Internacional de Cooperación del Agua, el Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y la Agencia Nacional del Agua (ANA) lanzó el Programa de Consolidación del Pacto Nacional para la Gestión del Agua (Progestão).
The European Commission has unveiled a blueprint for global development aid and called on world leaders to replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) with an international aid framework based on sustainable and inclusive development tackling poverty at its roots.
Please find attached the report outline.
The Guardian's "Global Development Professionals Network" provides a summary of the report's main findings
Safe Water Haiti provides simple, strategic and sustainable clean water solutions to the developing world.Their program integrates health and sanitation education programs with the Solar Disinfection (SODIS) technique which effectively changes contaminated water to safe-drinking water.
Environmental experts have warned that increasingly tough climatic conditions around the world are making it much harder to meet the growing demand for food. In order to improve its food security the Kenyan government is trying out the system of rice intensification (SRI) as a response to changing climatic condition.
An interesting article on the current situation of Lake Chad By Raveena Aulakh.
"In its glory days during the 1960s, Lake Chad was 38,000 square kilometres of sparkling blue-green water that nourished humans, animals and plant life in the four countries it straddled: Chad, Cameroon, Niger and Nigeria. The lake, on the edge of the mighty Sahara Desert, gave solace to people. Poems were written about it; celebrations were held on its banks.
But Lake Chad is now a speck of what it was five decades ago, measuring just 1,300 square kilometres."
Version en español: www.evren.es/halt-jucar/
The current pilot action funded by the EC (DG Environment) started with the signing of an agreement on 21 December 2011.
Safe water and sanitation transform women's lives, bringing more time, better health and improved dignity.
Watch WaterAid's film, Transforming women's lives, made for International Women's Day on 8 March!
Hosted by the NEPAD Southern African Network of Water Centres of Excellence (SANWATCE), in conjunction with the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre, this e-Conference will take place during the United Nations’ World Water Day on 22 March 2013 as part of the UN International Year for Water Cooperation.
Following from the first e-Conference in November 2012, the upcoming e-Conference will focus on the need for joint action towards water knowledge management, and challenges and problems that are being faced. Specific aims are to
