Water blog posts

Aditi Mukherji, water professional and researcher at IWMI, shares conclusions from her study on minor irrigation schemes in India and expands upon the policy implications from these findings.

The Sudd wetland of South Sudan is one of the largest tropical wetlands in the world. However, despite covering an area twice the size of Spain in the wet season, very little is known about the number of people it supports or the current state of its biodiversity.

Dam building is a complicated and messy business. The Mekong region exemplifies the contradictions, problems and concerns that different groups hold.

Water, the primary resource for irrigated agriculture, is demanded by domestic, industrial, environmental and agricultural sectors within a catchment.  In other words, water of varying quality is demanded by multiple sectors and in varying quantities by multiple users within a catchment. 

Over the past 50 years or so, the world has seen an exponential increase in groundwater use, driven mainly by growth in population and agriculture.

Solar pumps are also lifting farmers out of poverty by enabling them to better irrigate their crops more affordably, with less dependence on electric and diesel-powered pumps.

René van Veenhuizen from RUAF reviews two new guides on the safe use of wastewater in agriculture. Wastewater is a resource which can, when used safely, alleviate the pressure on (fresh)water resources...

In recent literature color has been added to water.  Blue water is defined as water which can be collected, pumped or transported.  It essentially refers to water in surface and groundwater reservoirs.  Green water on the other hand refers to water held by matric forces in an unsaturated soil, he

Land grabbing is a topic of hot debate among scientists and development professionals.  We received a comment on Fred Pearce’s land grabbing post that rightly points to what might

When we think of farming, an image of farmers tilling soil often comes to mind. Dr. Noble challenges this image by arguing that zero tillage farming can help prevent water and land degradation.

Conventionally, we ask: what is the impact of agriculture on ecosystems? How are farming activities affecting ecosystems?