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European Report on Development 2013: Post-2015

Soumis par Water Team le 15 mai, 2013 - 17:33

 

The European Report on Development (ERD) 2013 "Post 2015: Global Action for an Inclusive and Sustainable Future" seeks to contribute to the global reflection on the post-2015 development agenda by providing independent research-based analysis, stimulating debate and building common ground among key stakeholders.

WHO/UNICEF Progress Report on Sanitation & Drinking Water 2013

Soumis par Water Team le 15 mai, 2013 - 16:51

Some 2.4 billion people will remain without access to improved sanitation in 2015, according to a new joint WHO/UNICEF report. According to the report, the world remains off track to meet the Millennium Development goal (MDg) sanitation target.

The report titled Progress on sanitation and drinking-water 2013 update is available here in english.

 

Water Industry - Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions workbook

Soumis par Water Team le 13 mai, 2013 - 16:45

The UKWIR Carbon Accounting Workbook (CAW) provides UK water companies with a consistent and transparent approach for accounting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from their operational activities. The latest version (CAW v7) enables the water industry to continue to calculate its operational emissions using up-to-date guidance and regulations on GHG accounting in the UK and to report to regulatory bodies and customers.

Call for Abstracts: Nexus 2014 - Water, Food, Climate and Energy Conference

Soumis par Water Team le 7 mai, 2013 - 16:06

 

Water Conflict Chronology on a table, timeline and a map

Soumis par Water Team le 29 avril, 2013 - 14:51

In an ongoing effort to understand the connections between water resources, water systems, and international security and conflict, the Pacific Institute initiated a project in the late 1980s to track and categorize events related to water and conflict, which has been continuously updated since. Their new format, updated November 2009, presents the information three ways, to better illustrate how conflicts over water impact history: 

 

Community maps reveal rich resources of land policymakers think is empty - IIED

Soumis par Water Team le 29 avril, 2013 - 13:44

 

Misperceptions of the drylands as barren and empty are leading to their mismanagement. An IIED mapping project aims to create a clearer picture of their value to pastoralists.

"It's all in the mind," George Harrison once said. When most government planners look at Kenya’s Isiolo County, they see barren, dusty land. But pastoralists who live there see something else entirely. How do we know? It’s on their map.

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