With some 600 million Indians facing high to extreme water stress, ‘games’ offer vital insights for expanding self-governance to help people manage water more sustainably.
Why gender sensitive research requires a bottom-up approach that works directly with communities, rather than a top-down approach that fails to recognise the real-life consequences of entrenched gender norms.
This first-ever event of its kind in Pakistan aims to bring together academics, government officials, NGOs, and policy experts from home and abroad to discuss the problems affecting the country's water resources today.
The Smartstick, a breakthrough technology developed by WLE and IWMI, is a low-cost device that delivers real time water level and discharge measurements, to support water savings and productivity improvement at the farm level in Uzbekistan.
The success of the water users' association at Pyawt Ywar prompted Myanmar's Irrigation and Water Utilization Department to replicate it in other villages, and WLE/IWMI is translating the water user association handbook into Burmese to support these efforts.
Accelerating the development of sustainable groundwater use in Africa could be pivotal in the transformation of the continent's food security and prosperity. This was the key message from a side event of the UN Food Systems Summit Science Days, organized by the African Ministers' Council on Water (AMCOW) with support from WLE.
Supported by WLE, CIAT and other partners, the online water planning platform Agua de Honduras is being scaled out in Central America, and extending further afield – to Ethiopia, Kenya and Rwanda.
SADMS, which won the Geospatial World Excellence Award in 2020, was created by IWMI with the support of WLE and other partners and is a practical drought monitoring service that uses satellite based maps to show expanding dry regions.
The online toolkit is based on open access information and can be used by development banks and businesses to identify areas for solar-powered solutions.
Research IWMI and WLE showed an alternative approach, which combined with the application of the water-energy-food nexus concept, led to multiple benefits
To support their sustainable development agenda, the Ethiopian Government reviews the national water policy aiming for far-reaching reform, with the help of WLE/IWMI and prior research.
In this Op-Ed on CNBC Africa, WLE Program Director Stefan Uhlenbrook forewarns why world needs to be proactive about risks to and from water to mitigate threats to food system everywhere.
