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We are excited to confirm that the 39th WEDC International Conference 'Ensuring Availability and Sustainable Management of Water and Sanitation for All' will be co-hosted and take place at KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana 11-15th July 2016   Our week long format includes three days of pres ...

Source: http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=46937  Planet Labs by Will Marshall  

According to a JRC study published on 24 September, projections under a “high-end“ climate scenario show that river floods in Europe could directly affect more than half a million people a year by 2050 and nearly one million by 2080, as compared to about 200 thousand today. Related an ...

Source: OSGeo OSGeo-Live is a self-contained bootable DVD, USB thumb drive or Virtual Machine based on Lubuntu, that allows you to try a wide variety of open source geospatial software without installing anything. It is composed entirely of free software, allowing it to be ...

Source: European Space Agency The Sentinel-2A satellite has been in orbit for only a matter of weeks, but new images of an algal bloom in the Baltic Sea show that it is already exceeding expectations. Built essentially as a land monitoring mission, Sentinel-2 will also certainly find ...

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DEADLINE 30 APRIL 2015 Job description The NRF SARChI Chair in “Development and Optimization of Wastewater Treatment Technology for Developing Economies” is based at the Institute for Water and Wastewater Technology. As part of an externally Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation  ...

The European Union has recently financed a project called WaterInnEu which aim is to develop a marketplace capable of handling products and knowledge deriving from European projects relating to water and connecting them to users, businesses, and managers who could benefit from their u ...

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En los últimos 15 años, se han registrado al menos 180 casos de remunicipalización del agua en 35 países, tanto en el Norte como en el Sur, incluidos algunos casos destacados en Europa, las Américas, Asia y África. Descargar el documento completo

UNESCO's International Hydrological Programme (IHP) is inviting qualified candidates to submit a letter of expression of interest, along with a CV, for the position of Consultant (water quality) to assist in the project on emerging pollutants and wastewater reuse and related activitie ...

Canada Research Chair in Sustainability and Policy for Resources and Development, Liu Institute for Global Issues and the Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering (UBC - Vancouver) Please click here to download the full posting.

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Today, UNESCO-IHE published a booklet containing 50 innovative solutions in the field of water & development. You can find the booklet here.  

Source: United Nations. Office for Outer Space Affairs (UN-SPIDER)  

  Comunidades andinas protegen más de 1.300 variedades de papa del cambio climático - Campesinos de Amaru, una de las cinco comunidades de Cusco, en la sierra sur de Perú, forman parte del Parque de la Papa, donde se trabaja con científicos para pre ...

Talk of Fuzzy Cognitive Maps, Gantt Charts and Mental Modelling might have you reaching rapidly for your project dictionary but behind the terminology lies some significant progress in the BeWater project over recent months.   These and other elements of the project were presen ...

Talk of Fuzzy Cognitive Maps, Gantt Charts and Mental Modelling might have you reaching rapidly for your project dictionary but behind the terminology lies some significant progress in the BeWater project over recent months.   These and other elements of the project were presen ...

The 2014 African Water Report is out! The report will be presented in the upcoming African Union Assembly that will be held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia the 30-31th of January 2015 during the 24th AU Summit - "Women's Empowerment Year and Africa Development for the concretisation of Ag ...

source: http://www.eeas.europa.eu/lac/docs/141105-visibility-event_es.pdf

A message from the Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC) at Loughborough University, UK   The Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC) at Loughborough University in the UK, is dedicated to improving water and sanitation service delivery in low- and middle-inc ...

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