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Sex for Water Many women in urban informal settlements in Kenya are often forced to barter sex for water. This … Continued
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Water diplomacy Water management *is* conflict management. Regardless of the scale, ensuring that the needs of the people and ecosystems … Continued
Groundwater Governance: Management and more
The total amount of groundwater abstraction by a country positively correlates with the size of that country. This quite … Continued
Groundwater gallery
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Managing Groundwater: The Political Blackbox
‘Politics’ is widely considered a dirty word. Dictionaries provide a wide range of definitions, from the benign “… the aggregate … Continued
Groundwater: Overuse gone overboard
Stress level of aquifers that are important for growing food. Warmer colours are applied to more stressed areas, with … Continued
Groundwater: how depleting quality makes it scarce
Groundwater is less susceptible to bacterial pollution than surface water, as the soils and rocks it flows through screens out … Continued
Storing water underground
Most of the layers of ground in which water is stored (aquifers) are naturally recharged, for example through rain and … Continued
Groundwater Monitoring: The Groundwork for Informed Water Management
This text is contributed by Nienke Ansems from IGRAC Groundwater is the most abundant source of freshwater on earth, counting … Continued
Video package “Water Management and Water Use in Ethiopia” (2009)
As an offline service of TheWaterChannel we compiled a DVD for lecturers and students, hoping to give insight into management … Continued
Water harvesting productions (2010)
Three videos on water harvesting were produced by ASAL consultants in cooperation with TheWaterChannel and RAIN. The videos show unique … Continued
Water and soil lab videos (2011)
It is a challenge for educational institutes worldwide to offer students the possibility of practical learning. With educational reforms ongoing … Continued
Lecture series (2011-2012)
Insights from Ethiopia,’ a DVD-based package of video lectures on Integrated River Basin Management topics was produced and distributed through … Continued
Water and Peace
The conference presented and discussed the role of negotiation, mediation and conciliation in evidence-based cases of water diplomacy. Experts … Continued
Soft Infrastructures
Usually, the term ‘Infrastructure’ conjures up images of mega structures such as roads, bridges, dams, telecommunications and water supply systems. … Continued
Multi Layer Water Safety Strategy
In the Netherlands, much debate is going on over the concept of Multi Layer Safety (MLS). The concept, which recently … Continued