Sustainable Water Management News
On this page, you will find all news and activities of the Sustainable Water Management programme.
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30 January 2018
IJsselmeer region: water management, nature and economic development
- Wageningen University & Research is conducting multi-year research in the IJsselmeer region on behalf of the Ministries of Agriculture, Nature... -
25 January 2018
Increase in extremes calls for intensive river monitoring
- Climate change and changes in land use mean that the past can tell us very little about future extreme discharges of rivers. A clever combined... -
26 October 2017
Will heat make life impossible in the Indus-Ganges plain?
- If global warming continues at this rate, vast parts of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh will become unlivable by extremely high temperatures at the end... -
10 October 2017
Rethinking water scarcity: quality matters
- Current assessments of water scarcity primarily focus on water quantity. But as water quality issues are prevalent worldwide, we need to rethink the... -
27 September 2017
Water Quality: a New Challenge for Global Scale Modelling
- Water quality plays an important role in achieving sustainable development, and global water quality models can help to better understand sustainable... -
05 September 2017
Aquafarm: treating wastewater and harvesting valuable organisms
- Smarter handling of waste and wastewater is one of the greatest challenges of our time. Wageningen University & Research is working within the... -
21 July 2017
Better farm water management can help to achieve UN Sustainable Development Goals
- Water use for food production today largely occurs on the expense of ecosystems. About 40 percent of the water used for irrigation are unsustainable... -
06 June 2017
Manos al Agua project wins Planeta Azul Award
- The Manos al Agua project has been set up to make the Colombian coffee sector climate proof to ensure more than half a million coffee farmers to cope... -
31 May 2017
Producing clean water from urban sewage streams in India
- Recently in India a project started for local treatment of urban sewage streams for healthy reuse (LOTUS HR). This project aims to clean one of the... -
08 March 2017
Agreement with Oman signed on Water Management
- The German University of Technology in Muscat, Oman (GUTech) will start to work with the Dutch to research water scarcity and flash floods. On 5 March...