Water blog posts

I read "Scalar Disconnect" with a distinct sense of déjà vu. Between 2000 and 2003, I worked almost exclusively for the Mekong River Commission (MRC) Secretariat, then in Phnom Phenh.

Andrew Noble addressing the Crawford Fund Parliamentary Conference in Canberra, Australia  

Alain Vidal, Director of the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food

Peter McCornick, Deputy Director General at IWMI, outlines key issues he hopes to see addressed at the The Economist Conference "Feeding the World: Asia's prospect of plenty" on Septem

In Burkina Faso, treadle pumps were introduced as a low-cost tool for lifting water for irrigation. Laurent Stravato from iDE believes the pumps can make a huge difference to farm incomes, but that their popularity led to some unexpected marketing challenges...

Optimism about the achievability of global food security was tempered by pessimism on man’s ability to achieve this without wrecking the earth’s natural systems at the Stockholm Water Laureate’s Seminar at World Water Week.

If we are to produce enough food for the anticipated 9 billion global population by 2050, achieving improved productivity in rain-fed agricultural systems will be essential.

The world’s rapid transition to urbanization contributes greatly to the pressure on water, food security, and energy, as the World Water Week Workshop on Securing Water and Food in an Urbanising World explored.  We cannot simply look at urbanization as an urban problem.  As Pay Drechsel from the

How can we translate gender strategies and indicators into on the ground action? This question rang throughout Stockholm World Water Week’s session on “Concrete Actions: Advancing the Integration of Gender, Water and Food Security.”

This piece was originally posted on Aditi Mukherji's blog Waterscapes.

Several major Indian states- Punjab, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh all provide farmers with free electricity.