Water

Transforming women’s lives: WaterAid video for International Women’s Day

“Men never come to collect water as it is a woman’s responsibility to provide water and prepare food”. Shanti Devi (35), Gopalpur Mushari, India

Water, food and energy nexus debates - watch live broadcast

Enviado por Water Team el 1 Marzo, 2013 - 12:04.

The Guardian brings you a day of online debates discussing how to achieve inter-connected action on water, food & energy! Watch them here!

Call for Information and Participation: Water, Sanitation and Hygiene and Gender Based Violence

WaterAid is creating a practitioner’s best practice resource to help reduce gender based violence (GBV) related to sanitation, hygiene and water (WASH) in development, humanitarian and transitional contexts. The team is interested to be in contact with any organisation or individual who has material or experience to contribute to the resource; and/or may be interested to co-publish the outputs. The research is being funded by the SHARE Consortium.

Where the Danube Meets the Black Sea

 NASA Earth ObservatoryOriginally Published by NASA Earth Observatory - The Danube Delta is a rich but threatened ecosystem, constantly remodeled by natural and human activities.

Water in the Urban Environment & Water Innovation Europe 2013

Enviado por Celine Dondeynaz el 1 Febrero, 2013 - 15:30.
Cuando: 
Comienzo 17/04/2013 - 08:30 Final 18/04/2013 - 18:00

 

 

Water in the Urban Environment & Water Innovation Europe 2013

Bringing Research to the Market

16th-18th April 2013

Brussels

 

The key to good water governance is finding the right balance between science & policy, and the successful implementation of innovative solutions.

 

WATER: Enough in the Nile to share, little to waste

ADDIS ABABA 16 November 2012 (IRIN) - As Ethiopia’s massive dam-building plans continue to cause disquiet in downstream Egypt, new research suggests there is sufficient water in the Nile for all 10 countries it flows through, and that poverty there could be significantly eased as long as access by small-scale farmers is boosted.

Snow Cover Extent Declines in the Arctic

Originally Published by NASA Earth Observatory

– High-latitude springtime snow cover declined substantially between 1967 and 2012.

Winter in Southern Greenland

 NASA Earth ObservatoryOriginally Published by NASA Earth Observatory - Captured near the end of 2012, this image shows a mixture of sea ice, land ice, and fresh snow.

China’s Corals Fall Victim to ‘Wicked Environmental Problems’

Flowerpot coral on the coast of China at Shenzhen, a major city just north of Hong Kong (Photo by longtinchin)Originally Published by ENS - China’s coral reefs have declined by 80 percent in the past three decades, destroyed by the c

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