Source - UN Water - The World Youth Parliament for Water (WYPW) has developed a 'Youth Vision for Water', encapsulating the change the Parliament wants to see before, during and after the UN 2023 Water Conference, to be held in March next year. At the 5th General Assembly of WYPW in Dakar, Sene...
GEMS/Water: A 50 year History
Source - UN Environment Programme - This document presents the mission, activities and achievements of GEMS/Water during its 50 years history, summarizing reports and studies published at international level and by institutions and scientists in participating countries. It also looks ahead to s...
Water Tech Spotlight: the latest technology developments in the water industry
Source - International Water Association - by Chunyang (Sophie) Su, Intelligence Senior Officer | China - Tech solutions and innovations are the mainstays towards a water-wise world. Water Tech Spotlight is a monthly blog that aims to highlight worldwide the latest technology developments ...
Advancements in Microbiological Safety for Potable Water Reuse
Original Source : International Water Association - This webinar will attract a global audience with an interest in learning about how to validate microbiological water safety in water reuse. Description The webinar is co-hosted by the IWA Specialist Groups on Water Reuse and Health-Relat...
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Water Evaluation and Planning (WEAP) Training
On the 28th of June, Stockholm Environment Institute Asia Center (SEI Asia) hosted and organized an online training on Water Evaluation and Planning System (WEAP) with funding support of the Swedish Government through SEI Rapid Response Fund. WEAP is a tool designed for integrated water resour...
Water Utility Financing (Self-paced)
The World Bank Water Global Practice, with support from the Global Water Security & Sanitation Partnership (GWSP), the Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF) and the Open Learning Campus, turned a time-tested workshop on Water Utility Financing into a free self-paced online cour...
Digital adoption by water utilities, reflections from the experience in the Kenyan water sector
Source : International Water Association - by - Zach White, Senior Insights Manager, GSMA - We are nearing a 'moment' where digital adoption by many water utilities in low- and middle-income countries is increasingly in reach. Technologies are maturing at the same time as many of the ...
မြစ်ဝကျွန်းပေါ်များကို ပင်လယ်ရေမျက်နှာပြင်မြင့်တက်ခြင်းမှ ကာကွယ်ရန် နည်းလမ်း ၄ သွယ်
အလျင်အမြန်မြင့်တက်နေသော ပင်လယ်ရေမျက်နှာပြင်၏ြခိမ်းခြောက်မှုဒဏ်ကိုခံနေရသော မြစ်ဝကျွန်းပေါ်တို့သည် ရေအောက်နစ်မြုပ်တော့မည့် အခြေအနေနှင့်ရင်ဆိုင်နေရသည်။ ပင်လယ်ရေ မျက်နှာပြင် မြင့်တက်လာမှု၏ သက်ရောက်မှုဒဏ်ကိုကာကွယ်နိုင်ရန်အတွက်ဆိုလျှင် မြစ်ဝကျွန်းပေါ်မြေများကို မြစ်တို့မှရရှိသော သဲများ၊ ရွှံ့မြေများနှင့် ...
Lessons learned from the UN Water Conference in Tajikistan
Source : International Water Association - by - Farokh Kakar, Emily Ryan, Jacob Amengor and Isabela Espindola - The Second International High-Level Conference on the International Decade for Action "Water for Sustainable Development" ended on 9 June in Dushanbe, Tajikistan after ...
The interlinked threats facing lakes and why we need to protect them
Source: UN environment programme - Across the world, lakes fed by rivers, glacial melt, groundwater and rain have played an important role in human civilization and development. They contain 90 per cent of the fresh water on the planet's surface, house an array of wildlife, and make possi...
Change in global freshwater storage
Freshwater in both natural and man-made stores is critical for socioeconomic development. Globally, cumulative reduction in terrestrial water storage from 1971 to 2020 is estimated to be of the order of 27,079 Bm3. Although insignificant in comparison to the total volume stored, the decrease in 'ope...
Marine Warriors Hand-in Workshop
Source: World Learning - The 2022 Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI) Regional Workshop: Marine Warriors brings together participants from ASEAN countries and Timor-Leste to examine recent environmental changes and consequences in the Central Coastal regions of Vietnam. Funded by ...
If humans and robots collaborate, what will it mean for our wetlands?
Source: International Water Association - By Samurdhi Ranasinghe, Senior Communications Officer, IWMI - Wetlands are among the planet's most threatened ecosystems, disappearing at a rate three times faster than rainforests. In Sri Lanka, eclipsed by the hustle and bustle of the capital city of Colom...
Register for WEAP (Water Evaluation and Planning) Training
WEAP (Water Evaluation and Planning) is a software tool for integrated water resources planning. It provides a comprehensive, flexible and user-friendly framework for policy analysis. Over the last decade, an integrated approach to water development has emerged that places water supply projects in t...
Community co-management can help protect wetlands biodiversity in the Chindwin River Basin
Source: Stockholm Environment Institute - For International Biodiversity Day 2022, SEI Asia researchers reflect on the challenges in conserving biodiversity in the wetlands of Myanmar's Chindwin River Basin. Myanmar's Upper Chindwin Basin has some of the Indo-Burma region's most critical b...