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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 operat ...

 

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 upd ...

  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’ ...

  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 peace ...

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 y ...

"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 ...

  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 fi ...

 

  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 s ...

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 ...

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, ...

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.

Artículo ganador del I Concurso del Blogs del Día Mundial del Agua

  I am pleased to announce  that Stellenbosch University has just launced 15 new Post doctoral positions. Please contact me for more information at: eugenecloete@sun.ac.za

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  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 Ye ...

The Guardian brings you a day of online  debates discussing how to achieve inter-connected action on water, food & energy! Watch them here!

  Water Week Latinoamérica proporciona una plataforma única para el intercambio de experiencias y prácticas entre las comunidades científica, empresarial, política y cívica. Se centra en un nuevo pensamiento y la acción positiva hacia los retos relacionados con el agua y su ...

New challenges need new technologies to tackle them.

  This event is organized in the framework of the European Commission (EC) support project to the Latin American network of knowledge centres in the water sector (RALCEA). It will take place in Chile during the Water Week Latinoamérica in Viña del Mar from the 17-23 of ...