For over a decade, VietWater has been the foremost trade event for water resources, water, and wastewater treatment in Vietnam. This annual event has been a dynamic hub where industry professionals converge to explore the latest advancements and developments. With a rich history and an ever-growing ...
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A Window to Innovation: Join Vietwater and Explore Vietnam AquaVenture
Vietwater 2023 is set to return from October 11th to 13th, 2023, at the Saigon Exhibition & Convention Center (SECC) in District 7, Ho Chi Minh City. This event, meticulously organized by Informa Markets Vietnam, offers an exceptional opportunity for companies engaged in the water and wastewater...
Science-driven policy change to restore healthy fish stocks in Myanmar
Source: WorldFish One farmer in the country underlined the importance of aquatic foods for their community: "Fish is very important to my family because it is not only our source of livelihood but also a source of vital nutrients that help us accomplish our daily tasks." However, Hilsa stocks in the...
Down the drain lies a promising climate and nature solution – UN report
Source: UN environment programme Wastewater is a growing health and environmental threat, accounting for almost as much planet warming emissions as the aviation industry. Yet with the right policies, wastewater could provide alternative energy to half a billion people, supply over 10 times the...
Extreme weather is the "new norm"
Source: World Meterological Organization From mountain tops to ocean depths, the summer of extremes continues. Heatwaves are baking large parts of the northern hemisphere, fuelling unprecedented wildfires and disrupting marine ecosystems. Floods have transformed desert landscapes. The high-impact we...
Space for Climate Action Trainings
Source: United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs Following the 2023 UN/Austria Symposium on the theme of "Space for climate action: space applications and technologies supporting sustainability on Earth", UNOOSA is partnering with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), the European Centre for Medium-...
New Farmed Seaweed Markets Could Reach $11.8 Billion by 2030
Source: The World Bank A new World Bank report estimates that ten emerging global seaweed markets have a potential growth of up to $11.8 billion by 2030. This monetary value comes with seaweed's ability to sink carbon, sustain marine biodiversity, employ women, and unlock value chains. The Global Se...
Flash Flood Guidance System (FFGS): Advancing Women in Meteorology and Hydrology
Source: World Meteorological OrganizationWomen make up 49.7 per cent of the global population, yet they are often ignored, and their rights violated. The result is a world that excludes and marginalizes half the population of the planet – a problem that will prevent all of us from experiencing a mor...
Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm Mocha, May 2023, Myanmar: Global Rapid Post-Disaster Damage Estimation (GRADE) Report (June 29, 2023)
Source: reliefweb Given the fragile and conflict-affected situation with limited access in Myanmar, the World Bank has adopted the Global Rapid Post-Disaster Damage Estimation (GRADE) methodology to estimate damages arising from Cyclone Mocha. GRADE is a remote, desktop analysis to estimate damage t...
UNCTAD report: How technology can help solve the water and sanitation crisis
Source: UN Water The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has released a report stressing the importance of science, technology and innovation (STI) in solving the global water and sanitation crisis. With billions of people lacking safely managed water and sanitation services,...
Invasion of plankton species reveals a seasonally ice-free Arctic ocean during the Last Interglacial
Source: Stockholm University A subpolar species associated with Atlantic water expanded far into the Arctic Ocean during the Last Interglacial, analysis of microfossil content of sediment cores reveals. This implies that summers in the Arctic were ice free during this period. The findings are publis...
As the demand for water rises, we need to re-think global water storage
Source: International Water Management Institute As Europe swelters in unprecedented summer heat, water stress is a major and growing concern. The same is true for many places across the globe. The need for more water storage is obvious but simply building more dams is not the solution. Growing popu...
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သန့်ရှင်းသော ရေရှိမှုသည် အထူးအခွင့်အရေး ရယူခြင်းတစ်ခု မဟုတ်ပေ။ ၎င်းသည် မဖြစ်မနေလိုအပ်ချက်တစ်ခုဖြစ်ပါသည်။ ကျွန်တော်တို့ကမ္ဘာကြီး၏ အစိတ်အပိုင်း တော်တော်များများကို ရေထုဖြင့် လွှမ်းခြုံထားသော်လည်း ထိုရေအများစုမှာ လူသားများ သောက်သုံးရန်အတွက် မသင့်တော်ပေ။ World Widlife Federation ၏ အဆိုအရ ကမ္ဘာ့ရေထု၏ ၃ရာ...
Water Planning And Engineering
Water is an important contributor to a sustainable and resilient sector. Water planning is an evolving and collaborative process that actively involves multiple stakeholders from different sectors. It aims to allocate rights to water for consumption purposes, water provision to the environment and p...
Google Takes on Flooding with Satellites, Machine Learning
Source: stormwater.wef.orgLeveraging the technology behind its existing suite of satellite imagery products and its expertise in artificial intelligence, search-engine giant Google (Mountain View, California) is pursuing new ways to help people protect life and property in the event of major floods....