The Guadalquivir River Basin Confederation manages a basin of 57,184 km2, and operates 52 reservoirs with a total capacity of nearly 8,000 cubic hectometers, allowing the irrigation of over 700,000 hectares. In the basin, about 3,500 irrigation...
To speed-up the deployment of clean and climate-friendly desalination infrastructure, the Global Clean Water Desalination Alliance calls for:
Public investments in pilot clean desalination projects;
Access to climate and other green finance...
The country possesses numerous quantitative and qualitative data on water resources and uses. However, they are scattered, heterogeneous, and few are accessible in a standardized form as provided by various entities of national/decentralized level...
Biologist, Professor Emeritus of the University of Le Mans - Researcher in the Joint Research Unit "Space and Society" of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) - France
In 2014, a working group was created to bring together technical and scientific visions and user needs concerning satellite altimetry (estimation of river levels and discharges), and more generally, “multi-sensor” data (imagery, radars) useful for...
Models and scientific knowledge converge to predict that by 2050, climate change will generate major hydrological changes and will have significant repercussions on the water management and aquatic environments of the Adour-Garonne basin.
In...
Background:
The International Network of Basin Organizations (INBO) is present at the 25th Conference of the Parties (COP25) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which is held from Monday 2 to Friday 13...
The Chilean Agroclimatic Observatory is used to create integrated indices, taking into account a number of different drought indicators. The system builds upon the Climate Data Library (CDL), a tool that collects all raw databases relevant to...
The Structured Implementation and Information Framework (SIIF) concept is an ongoing project essentially focused on the organization and management of data in order to enhance the generation of information for policy makers, interested parties and...
The 1st Latin American Congress and V National Congress on River Basin Management (CMCH-2019) to be held in Mexico City from 29 to 31 October 2019, with the slogan "Local Participation and Governance for River Basin Management in Latin America"....