The WaterBlog

Where Should Hedgerows Be Planted? A GIS Journey from Maps to Farm Boundaries

Dossier: Green Infrastructure

From Runoff to Recharge: Restoring the Local Water Cycle in Ethiopia

From Learning to Fit: Lessons on Avoiding Maladaptation in Community-Led Landscape Restoration

Why Locally-Led Adaptation in Bangladesh may take time – and why that matters

The Restoration of Adafit Micro-watershed

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Increasing water productivity: Salt tolerant potatoes

By Mekdelawit Deribe July 2018 Globally, around 1 billion hectares of land are salt-affected, meaning it has too much salt … Continued

Fire in their belly: young farmer leaders transforming agriculture

(Glimpses from a Farmer’s Production Organization (FPO) in North Bengal, India) CDHI team[1] Traversing a storyline We met … Continued

Women farmers and water productivity

Postcard from Nanyuki, Kenya. Smart water techniques encompass by now a rich variety of measures – water storage, micro-irrigation, greenhouses, … Continued

Avocado for export: who reaps the fruits?

A case for social water productivity Here is the main question. If water is one of your main assets, by … Continued

River Reappear

Postcard from Kulna, Bangladesh By Frank van Steenbergen, July,2018 There are many ways that time is making its mark. In … Continued

Managing soil moisture: the waterpads in Turkey

The key to better water productivity is often not through managing water as such but by taking better care of … Continued

Water rich and more water productive: transformation in coastal Bangladesh

Frank van Steenbergen (MetaMeta), Judith de Bruijn (Mott Macdonald) June 19, 2018 Multiple cropping in coastal Bangladesh. The improved amon … Continued

Its Own Deep Source

By Frank van Steenbergen, June 2018 The austere beauty of the Kairouan Grand Mosque in Tunisia harbors a gracious secret. … Continued

Elixir

By Letty Fajardo Vera and Frank van Steenbergen, May 2018 Early in the morning, delicate bitter orange blossom is harvested, … Continued

Hydraulic World Wonders: the Aghlabid Pools

By Frank van Steenbergen, May, 2018 Picture from the Aghlabid Pools and small intake pond. Postcard from Kairouan, Tunisia … Continued

Fodder production with road water harvesting in African drylands

Fodder production with road water harvesting in African drylands Posted by Kevin Mganga May 22/05/2018 Drylands provide a vital livelihood stream … Continued

Ingenuity: ancient water harvesting in the Altiplano of Bolivia

Ingenuity: ancient water harvesting in the Altiplano of Bolivia Posted by Francesco Sambalino and Martha Agujetas May 22/05/2018 Water scarcity … Continued