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News about Freshwater management
Research news | 2022-11-22
Who should pay for and benefit from water services? It depends on who you ask, finds a study that revisited Cape Town after its 2015-2018 water crisis
Research news | 2022-11-09
Reaching climate targets depends heavily on better decisions to manage already scarce water resources
Research news | 2022-07-01
Diminishing water flows may jeopardize the lives of millions of people that depend on the rivers for food production, energy or sanitation
Research news | 2022-02-15
Humans have changed the global water cycle and governmental bodies designed to govern water struggle to keep up. A new legal paradigm may help
Research news | 2021-12-16
Research and conservation of freshwater biodiversity is lagging behind. Researchers propose 15 priorities to improve knowledge on biodiversity in lakes, rivers, ponds and wetlands
Research news | 2021-09-23
In a statement published by the Global Resilience Partnership, a group of 31 globally diverse practitioners and researchers, sound a clarion call for water resilience to be brought to the forefront of building resilient and sustainable food systems
Research news | 2021-03-26
Researchers propose a new framework for understanding water's many functions for supporting, regulating, and stabilizing climatic, ecological, and social systems
Research news | 2021-02-24
After the scare in 2018, ramped up efforts to waste less water came at a cost to the city’s most vulnerable. Researchers and community activists gave these marginalised communities a voice
Research news | 2021-02-02
Since the 1980s, rainfall conditions for agriculture have improved only in scattered areas across the region
Research news | 2020-09-07
Untapped potential means water harvesting can increase crop production up to 60–100 per cent in Uganda, Burundi, Tanzania and India
Research news | 2020-03-23
Researchers urge hydrology and water community to join the “Grand Challenge” in establishing safe limits to human interference with the global water cycle
Research news | 2020-02-19
Malin Falkenmark calls for a shift towards a water based biosphere stewardship. The alternative, she warns, could be catastrophic
Research news | 2019-10-25
Little research has been done on the untapped potential and unintended consequences of human-made water bodies like ditches, fishponds, weirs, reservoirs, fish ladders, and irrigation channels
Research news | 2019-10-03
Why human actions on land can threaten the quality of water in lakes
Research news | 2019-09-30
Researchers predict the impact of climate change on Africa’s water resources
Research news | 2019-01-24
Mathematical models are essential in the quest to better understand the human impact on the world’s ecosystems. Lake Victoria may hold the cues
Research news | 2018-09-06
Water and land governance need to consider effects of distant land-use change, because local land-use decisions are not as local as we have always assumed
Research news | 2018-06-19
Major population increases present Sub-Saharan Africa with complicated water-related challenges that requires a shift in water thinking
Research news | 2017-06-07
New study introduces the 'seafood gap', the forgotten freshwater use in seafood production chains
Research news | 2017-03-01
Centre director Line Gordon wants to visualize the invisible part of the water cycle and find tasty pathways to more sustainable and healthy food systems
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