WLE's Stories of Change

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.

Reversing biodiversity loss is a critical component of limiting climate change and vice versa, but less widely acknowledged is how agriculture is needed to deliver both.

In this Op-Ed for World Soil Day 2021, WLE's Leigh Ann Winowiecki explains why healthy soils are vital for food systems transformation. 

The WLE Legacy Symposium celebrated the achievements and impacts of a decade of research for development as WLE draws to a close in December 2021. View the full program and watch the recording.

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.

A Water Pavilion side-event at the UN’s Climate Change Conference (COP26) addresses tech-savvy and inclusive water management innovations that can help farming communities navigate natural disasters and build resilience to climate change.

A farm machine-hiring center in South India is showing how research-led interventions can result in saving time, cost and labor for dryland farmers while creating jobs for rurally-based youth.

The cloud-based platform will be the first of its kind in the country, and could be used for an efficient coordination and response mechanism to support agricultural production and rural development.

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.