Sustainable water infrastructure and ecosystems - Page 3
Features
Join IWMI in celebration of World Soil Day 2021
We celebrate World Soil Day every December 5. It is a day created by the United Nations to raise awareness about soil degradation around the globe, and make clear the threat that unchecked soil degradation poses to ecosystems and people.
Features
With COP26 in the rearview, where do we go from here?
IWMI and One CGIAR look forward to the work ahead post-Glasgow, as determined as ever to help communities and governments across the globe lay the foundation for a sustainable, climate-resilient, and water-secure future for generations to come.
Features
How water can boost environmental health and biodiversity
As a result of IWMI’s work in the realms of e-flow monitoring and aquifer recharge, water management for rivers and aquifers has been strengthened.
News
Tapping into Groundwater
In a recent interview, Dr. Villholth spoke more about IWMI’s groundwater program and how events such as World Water Week are important to protecting and managing the resource.
Features
How hybrid water law can transform water access in southern Africa
In rural southern Africa, hybrid water law is a tool for social justice and environmental stewardship.
Features
Learning from our mistakes: transforming water management to boost biodiversity
When designing water solutions for communities, IWMI researchers always consider the impact on biodiverse ecosystems.
Blogs
Water’s Fundamental Truths: Part 2 – Why do we have to manage water as a system?
Water has to be managed as a system, and cannot be effectively managed separately from land, or from its major uses or users, of which agriculture is by far the biggest.
Blogs
Water’s Fundamental Truths – for One CGIAR and Beyond
Water scarcity is growing. While water is finite, demand for it grows along with population, the water intensity of diets, and the broader water demands of the economy.
Blogs
Ramsar Convention and the wise use of wetlands: rethinking gender equality and inclusion
It is imperative that we realize the need for a profound and urgent rethinking on who decides, how and why, what makes for the wise use of wetlands
Blogs
Success despite Covid: Hope from a Water Users Association in Central Myanmar
The Covid-19 health and economic crisis, as well as recent drought, could have caused optimism to fall. But not for the members of the “Five Village Bless” Water User Association.
Blogs
After the flush: How a project in Ghana is turning human waste into an economic resource
An IWMI-led project in Ghana aims to address issues with insufficient financing and lack of capacity by capturing value (‘CapVal’) from human waste in ways that support a circular economy.
Blogs
Modernizing wastewater treatment in Sri Lanka
Working across South Asia to identify applied technologies and business models to sustain water and sanitation systems.
From the DG
Banking on wastewater
IWMI enables societies to address challenges posed by wastewater by generating new knowledge on wastewater management, writes Jeremy Bird.
In the media
Africa droughts prompt calls to start pumping untapped groundwater
The Guardian recently published an article covering the work of the GRIPP initiative, co-led by IWMI.
Press releases
African dams linked to over one million malaria cases annually
New study urges future dam projects to consider better disease control measures.
News
New maps have India covered
Satellite scans of vegetation show changes to the sub-continent’s land-use.
News
Facing up to South Asia’s environmental arsenic
Report calls for more action to combat the region’s contamination challenge.
News
IWMI hydrologist recognized with President’s Award
Lal Muthuwatta, hydrologist and mathematical modeler at IWMI, received the President's award for a journal article on his research in a river basin in Iran.
Videos
Message from Jeremy Bird on World Food Day 2013
Water plays a vital role in sustainable food systems, IWMI's Director General reminds.
News
Saving the world’s wetlands
Under the WETWIN project, researchers looked at issues in seven wetlands from Africa, Europe and South America.
News
IWMI Environmental Flow Calculators
Environmental Flow CalculatorsGlobalGanga (Ganges)Sri LankaWestern Nepal
The IWMI Environmental Flow Calculators are a family of software for desktop rapid assessment of Environmental Flows (EFs). The...
News
CGIAR call for action at Rio+20
CGIAR calls for a focus on harmonizing food security and environmental sustainability through agricultural research and development.
News
IWMI researcher wins IWRA best paper award
Article offers new thinking on links between poverty, water and agriculture.
Videos
Why we need environmental flows
In the latest video from the "Colin's STRAIGHTtalk" series Dr. Chartres talks about why we need environmental flows.
Environmental flows describe the quantity, timing,...