water management

The 10th World Congress of EWRA on Water Resources and Environment will be in Athens 5-9 July 2017.
Abstract Submission Deadline Extended


The Organising and Scientific Committee in its meeting on the 31 October 2016 decided to extend the deadline for Abstract...

Several Andean organizations are working on mountain ecosystems, allowing for closer collaboration and cooperation. OIKOS and ...

Politicians become interested in water only when there are prolonged droughts and serious floods. The moment these events are over, interest evaporates.

This is mainly due to the way water issues are currently framed. Discussions focus on supply and quality of water. They are...

In the middle hills of Nepal, securing water for drinking and livelihood-related activities is a big challenge. Despite the fact that Nepal’s annual per capita water availability is more than 8,000 cubic metres, this number does not mean much to the people living in the middle hills....

No-one knows exactly when potatoes arrived in Central Asia. Native to South America, early European traders brought the tuber east. By the late 17th century contemporary accounts suggest that the crop was well established in India and China. A century later, it was being cultivated...

Brown with rust, two ships stand like stone upright in the yellow sand. The wind swirls salty air around the trawlers, silence echoing across the desert-like scenery. Now part of a graveyard of ships, the boats are all that is left of the harbor at what was once the bustling fishing...

Have you ever visited a structure that changes every time you go to see it?  

Last year,  when I spent about a month in Ladakh, I had the fortune of seeing the pilot “Ice Stupa” in all of its ever changing glory. Built to combat the...

Global climate models project stronger warming at high elevations, with potentially disastrous consequences for its ecosystems services (ESS). For instance, melting glaciers alone will affect the water supply of millions people, while soil degradation and erosion put local...

All over the world, partnerships between government and non-government organizations (NGOs) are springing up to solve complex water management problems, coalescing individuals and groups with different skills, perspectives, and goals. These collaborative partnerships are abler to unite...

Water is in high demand not just for agriculture but for everyday use. Schemes that offer payment for environmental services such as Water Funds are often proposed as a market incentive for managing demand in many sectors from forestry to natural resource management and water. However...

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