Source: The Ocean Decade - New UNESCO data highlight the accelerated melting of glaciers in World Heritage sites, with glaciers in a third of sites set to disappear by 2050. But it is still possible to save the other two thirds, if the rise in global temperatures does not exceed 1.5°C compared ...
Rethinking mountain water security
Source: University of Birmingham - Water security in mountain regions relies on an understanding of the interlinks of water supply and demand that goes far beyond the study of glacier melt. Current information on how the communities which depend on water from mountain snow and ice will be affec...
Water Data And Analysis
Water is important to both the natural and built environment. Analyzing Water usage and quality helps to deepen understanding of the systems being measured and guide management functions. Water quality can be defined as the chemical, physical and biological features of water and is usually related t...
Irrigated Agriculture and Groundwater
Source: International Association of Hydrogeologists What is the socioeconomic context of irrigation? IAH has just released another title in our Strategic Overview Series (IAH/AIH SOS) which summarises the development of irrigated agriculture, discusses how it has produced great economic b...
Climate change impacts on the water, food and energy sectors in Myanmar’s Sittaung river basin
Source: SEI - The Sittaung river basin (SRB) remains one of the least studied basins of Myanmar in terms of the assessment of the impact of climate change. As several reservoirs already exist in the basin, much research is needed to understand how projected climate change impacts rainfall, temp...
အဏ္ဏဝါသက်ရှိ အမြောက်အမြား မျိုးသုဥ်းမှုဖြစ်ပေါ်လာနိုင်ကြောင်း သိပ္ပံပညာရှင်များ သတိပေး
ကမ္ဘာကြီးစတင်အသက်ဝင်ခဲ့ချိန်မှစ၍ကမ္ဘာလုံးဆိုင်ရာ မျိုးသုဉ်းပျောက်ကွယ်ခြင်းဖြစ်စဉ်ပေါင်း အနည်းဆုံး ငါးခု ထိ ရင်ဆိုင်ခဲ့ရပြီးဖြစ်သည်။ ယခုမျက်မှောက်ကာလတွင်လည်း နောက်ထပ် မျိုးသုဉ်းပျောက်ကွယ်မှုဖြစ်စဉ်မျိုး သမုဒ္ဒရာထဲတွင် ထပ်မံပေါ်ပေါက်လာတော့မည့် အရိပ်အယောင်ရှိနေပေပြီ။ ရာသီဥတုပြောင်းလဲမှုသာ အရှိန်အဟ...
The future of disinfection in drinking water & wastewater
Source: International Water Association TYPE: WebinarDURATION: 1:30 hoursSTART DATE: 09 Nov 2022START TIME: 14:00 (London time)LANGUAGE: EnglishFORMAT: Discussion panel and sessionCERTIFICATION: N/A Target Audience Water professionals from academia, industry, water utilities, and administr...
Water And Climate System
There are five important elements for our life-hood: biosphere, surface, ocean, atmosphere and cryosphere; and the climate system is one of the Earth's major systems. Weather and climate appear to have similar effects on our planet, Earth, but they are not the same thing. "Weather," as we perceive i...
Warming oceans likely to shrink the viable habitat of many marine animals – but not all
Source: USF COLLEGE OF MARINE SCIENCE - By: Kristen Kusek A professor and marine physiology expert at the USF College of Marine Science, Seibel recently published a paper in Nature Climate Change. It connects the dots pertaining to animal metabolism that he's collected over 20 years and seven r...
Report: State of the world's drinking water
Source: UN Water - On 24 October 2022, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), and the World Bank, launched the report State of the world's drinking water: An urgent call to action to accelerate progress on ensuring safe drinking water for all. The r...
Using data in transboundary water management & negotiations
Source: GlobalWaterPartnership Description This online session is planned for 2 November 2022. This event is part of ongoing efforts to engage more with participants of the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Governance for Transboundary Freshwater Security. The session is co-organi...
Applying the land-water-food-energy nexus
Source: CGIAR To achieve net zero and unlock progress on multiple SDGs, we need new, coordinated action to manage the complex interplay between food, land, energy, and water systemsMounting scientific evidence points to food systems being responsible for around a third of global greenhouse gas emiss...
Water in Agriculture – why should we care?
Source: WorldWaterWeek - By Cindy Cherry - In the wake of World Food Day, this article places specific focus on the theme of water in agriculture. It highlights the main inhibitors and opportunities to progress water-food-nutrition security by providing reflections from the SIWI WWW semina...
WINNER Conference 2022
WINNER stands for Week of Indonesia-Netherlands Education and Research. This initiative is run by the Dutch Embassy in Jakarta, Nuffic NESO, the Indonesian Academy of Young Scientists (ALMI), the Indonesian National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sci...
Water And Environment
The environment is made up of elements, both living and non-living, such as air, water, minerals. It is known worldwide that water is a particularly important natural element because it is essential for sustaining life and it also supports lives. The water is home to millions of species, from the sm...