The programme for the South African wetlands Indaba has been updated. The Indaba will occur from Monday 16th to Thursday 19th of October 2017 will be “Wetland Communities: Networking Towards Better Practice”. The Indaba will occur at the Wild Coast Sun, Port Edward on the southern coast of the beautiful KwaZulu-Natal …
The theme of the 2017 South African wetlands “Indaba” from Monday the 16th to Thursday the 19th of October 2017 will be “Wetland Communities: Networking Towards Better Practice”. The Indaba will occur at the Wild Coast Sun, Port Edward on the southern coast of the beautiful KwaZulu-Natal Province of South …
Harare, capital of Zimbabwe, has a problem with water supply. Often unavailable, and grossly polluted, it costs millions of dollars a year to treat. Yet, Harare, nestled within a natural wetland has the gift of nature of easy access to plentiful and clean water – as long the source area …
I am just back from the 12th Meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands (COP12) in, Uruguay (http://www.ramsar.org/about/cop12-punta-del-este-uruguay-1-9-june-2015). It was great to connect with many familiar faces who had attended wetlandsforum.net events. Paul Ouédraogo and Dede Amah of the Africa Ramsar secretariat , …
Editorial on the UNESCO-IHE website, by Ken Irvine: “In the Netherlands, we celebrate Dutch engineering that keeps the country dry. The Dutch have crafted their skills of water management over 600 years, as a necessity for choosing to live below sea level; engineering the landscape, and even the wetlands such …
Dear friends and colleagues, At the Wetlands Forum workshop in Kigali in 2013, we developed ideas for the Wise-Use, Smart Plans for African wetlands. The energy of the Kigali workshop demonstrated the appetite for a pan-African Community of Practice for the protection and management of wetlands; from that meeting, …
A technology pioneered in space exploration is now being used to manage product life cycles, smart cities, and river basins. But what is it exactly?
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The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and IWMI seek to work together to address the challenges of water scarcity, climate change, and sustainable irrigational agriculture practices in the region.
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Matthew McCartney comments on the stabilizing role of hydropower in building resilience to drought.
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The dashboard will support policy makers with timely climate adaptation interventions.
The post IWMI launches the Climate Smart Governance dashboard in Sri Lanka first appeared on International Water Management Institute (IWMI).
IWMI and the Ghana Irrigation Development Authority (GIDA) enter into a five-year agreement aimed at significantly transforming the irrigation system for year-round cultivation.
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