The ministers in charge of water of Benin, Burkina and Niger have signed on 22 December 2015 in Cotonou, Benin the framework agreement of cooperation for the promotion of political dialogue and sustainable development of the Mékrou basin, an affluent of the Niger River shared by the three countries.
Les ministres en charge de l’Eau du Bénin, du Burkina Faso et du Niger, ont signé le 22 décembre 2015 à Cotonou, l’accord-cadre de coopération pour la promotion du dialogue politique dans le bassin transfrontalier de la Mékrou, un affluent du fleuve Niger, partagé entre les trois pays.
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 presentation and discussion of peer reviewed papers (Monday to Wednesday), followed by two days of capacity development workshops (Thursday and Friday).
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 annual damages could climb from the current 5.3 billion EUR to up to 40 billion EUR in 2050 and reach 100 billion EUR by 2080, due to the combined effect of climatic change and socio-economic growth.
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 freely distributed, duplicated and passed around.
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 its way into marine applications.
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 funded project “Developing a uniform STH analysis consortium for analyzing fecal waste samples” DUT is looking for the suitable candidates for the following positions for two years .
Aims of the project:
