News Archive   Mar 01, 2010 Colins STRAIGHTtalk on Are farmers stuck in an unsustainable model? Dr. Colin Chartres talks about farmers stuck in unsustainable models in his third video from the series called "Colins STRAIGHTtalk". The video is available on YouTube.com and the IWMI Web site. Read More Source : http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/ColinsSTRAIGHTtalk/   Mar 04, 2010 Video: TV9 Gujarat - Sushma Swaraj praising Gujarat's agiriculture rate Indian parliamentarian Sushma Swaraj in a speech to the Indian Parliament credits the work of IWMI scientists, Tushaar Shah in particular, as the basis for Gujarat's impressive agricultural growth. (Note: Video is not available in English) Read More Source : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00BUcujrnko   Mar 03, 2010 Firstscience.com: IWMI signs MOU with Government of LAO PDR for better management of water and land resources Vientiane,Lao PDR, March 3 2010. The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and the Government of Lao PDR today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to formalize and establish an IWMI Southeast Asia Regional Office in Vientiane and work towards the sustainable development of land and water resources in Laos. In December 2008 IWMI established a project office in Vientiane with permission from the Government of Lao PDR. Through this office IWMI coordinated and managed its research activities in Lao PDR, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Myanmar, Yunnan, Malaysia and Indonesia. Read More Source : http://www.firstscience.com/home/news/agriculture/   Mar 03, 2010 IWMI and Government of LAO PDR sign MOU - Towards the Sustainable Development of Land and Water Resources in Laos. The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and the Government of Lao PDR today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to formalize and establish an IWMI Southeast Asia Regional Office in Vientiane and work towards the sustainable development of land and water resources in Laos. Read More Source : http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/News_Room/   Feb 23, 2010 Indiatimes.com: Students daring to explore new territory With a Masters in Development Studies from International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, a Masters in Public Policy from Central European University and a post graduate diploma in Rural Management from Institute of Rural Management, Anand, Gujarat, Amrita Sharma, consultant, Resource Centre and Constituency Management, started her career as a policy researcher with International Water Management Institute - Tata water policy program [ITP] in Anand, Gujarat and worked there for three years. "I come from a small town called Khagaul near Patna. Read More Source : http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-i   Feb 23, 2010 Development.asia: Water Works to Improve Food Security "Asia's food and feed demand is expected to double by 2050. Relying on trade to meet a large part of this demand will impose a huge and politically untenable burden on the economies of many developing countries. The best bet for Asia lies in revitalizing its vast irrigation systems, which account for 70% of the world's total irrigated land," says Colin Chartres, director general of the International Water Management Institute. Read More Source : http://development.asia/PDF/issue-06/roundup-devas   Feb 23, 2010 Spie.org: Using remote sensing to assess crop water productivity Crop patterns, evapotranspiration, biomass, and yield accumulation all can be estimated using satellite sensor data. In our research, we used satellite map data to calculate crop water productivity. The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) made a pilot study in the Sry Darya river basin, central Asia,2 which collected land use (or cover) and social-economic information. Read More Source : http://spie.org/x39199.xml?highlight=x2420&Article   Feb 16, 2010 Indiatimes.com: Tamil Nadu farmers to benefit from Norway project IIT-Delhi is working on a proposal to collaborate with Bioforsk, the Norwegian Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research. Other partners in the project include the city-based MS Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) and the International Water management Institute in Colombo. Read More Source : http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Tamil-Nad   Feb 16, 2010 Afriquejet.com: Kenya: Report says new investments in agriculture likely to fail The authors of the report, who are scientists from ILRI, the International Food Policy Research Institute, the International Water Management Institute, the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research and the World Bank, urged wealthy countries, which pledged US$ 20 billion for developing countries' agriculture at the G-8 Summit in Italy last year, to look beyond "business as usual" investments. Read More Source : http://www.afriquejet.com/news/africa-news/kenya-r   Feb 11, 2010 Sciencedaily.com: Dramatic Changes in Agriculture Needed as World Warms and Grows Other authors are Roger Beachy of the U.S. Agriculture Department; Peter Cooper of the India-based International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics; David Fischhoff of Monsanto Co.; Carl Hodges of The Seawater Foundation; Vic Knauf of Arcadia Biosciences; David Lobell of Stanford University; Barbara Mazur of the DuPont Experimental Station; David Molden of the Sri Lanka-based International Water Management Institute; Matthew Reynolds of the Mexico City-based International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center; Pamela Ronald of the University of California, Davis, and the Joint Bioenergy Institute; Mark Rosegrant of the International Food Policy Research Institute; Pedro Sanchez of Columbia University; Avigad Vonshak of Ben-Gurion University in Israel; and Jian-Kang Zhu of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia and the University of California, Riverside. Read More Source : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/10021   Feb 11, 2010 Sciencemag.org: Radically Rethinking Agriculture for the 21st Century Population growth, arable land and fresh water limits, and climate change have profound implications for the ability of agriculture to meet this century's demands for food, feed, fiber, and fuel while reducing the environmental impact of their production. Success depends on the acceptance and use of contemporary molecular techniques, as well as the increasing development of farming systems that use saline water and integrate nutrient flows. Read More Source : http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/327   Feb 11, 2010 Sciencemag.org: Smart Investments in Sustainable Food Production: Revisiting Mixed Crop-Livestock Systems Farmers in mixed crop-livestock systems produce about half of the world's food. In small holdings around the world, livestock are reared mostly on grass, browse, and nonfood biomass from maize, millet, rice, and sorghum crops and in their turn supply manure and traction for future crops. Animals act as insurance against hard times and supply farmers with a source of regular income from sales of milk, eggs, and other products. Read More Source : http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/327/596   Feb 11, 2010 Eurekalert.org: New investments in agriculture likely to fail without sharp focus on small-scale 'mixed' farmers The authors, who include scientists from the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) and the World Bank, urge wealthy countries, which pledged US$20 billion for developing-country agriculture at the G8 summit in Italy last year, to look beyond "business as usual" investments. Read More Source : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-02/bc-   Feb 08, 2010 Voanews.com: Increasing Food Security in Dry Areas of the Middle East The International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas will provide technical support for the project. Officials from the International Water Management Institute and the International Food Policy Research Institute are also taking part in the effort. Read More Source : http://www.voanews.com/specialenglish/2010-02-07-v   Feb 05, 2010 Medicalnewstoday.com: Scientists Unite To Combat Water Scarcity; Solutions Yield More Crop Per Drop In Drylands Starting with US$1 million from USAID, each of the countries taking part in the new initiative will begin implementing its own proposal for improving water and land management linked under the combined initiative. The consortium of countries will receive technical backstopping from ICARDA, together with two other CGIAR Centers - the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and International Water Management Institute (IWMI) - as well as from a number of US universities. Read More Source : http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/178069.ph   Feb 05, 2010 Eurekalert.org: Scientists unite to combat water scarcity; solutions yield more crop per drop in drylands Starting with US$1 million from USAID, each of the countries taking part in the new initiative will begin implementing its own proposal for improving water and land management linked under the combined initiative. The consortium of countries will receive technical backstopping from ICARDA, together with two other CGIAR Centers-the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and International Water Management Institute (IWMI)-as well as from a number of US universities. Read More Source : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-02/bc-   Feb 05, 2010 Online.wsj.com: Liquid Asset Dr. Mark Giordano, director of water and society research at the International Water Management Institute based in Colombo, Sri Lanka, believes the "green revolution," developments in agriculture that led to huge increases in crop yields making food more plentiful in many parts of the developing world, has increased the strain on water supplies. It is becoming a difficult trade-off for governments to manage. Agriculture accounts for around 70% of global water usage. Read More Source : http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240527487033   Feb 05, 2010 Littleabout.com: How to fight world hunger now and by 2050 According to Guest Editors David Molden and Charlotte de Fraiture, both from the International Water Management Institute, We cannot think of a more pressing question or a more challenging issue in our time. Even if we solve the climate change issue tomorrow, we will still need sufficient food and fiber to support 9 billion people in 2050. Read More Source : http://www.littleabout.com/news/64854,how-fight-wo   Feb 05, 2010 Elsevier.com: One Billion are Hungry - Can we reduce hunger now and by 2050? Guest Editors David Molden and Charlotte de Fraiture, both from the External link International Water Management Institute, commented: "We cannot think of a more pressing question or a more challenging issue in our time. Even if we solve the climate change issue tomorrow, we will still need sufficient food and fiber to support 9 billion people in 2050. To do this, we must manage land and water resources with great care and we must make wise investments and policy choices from today onward, with little room for making mistakes." Read More Source : http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/authored_newsitem   Feb 05, 2010 Iges.or.jp: Regional Water Knowledge Hub for Groundwater Management The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) was established in 1998 to conduct pragmatic and innovative strategic policy research to support sustainable development in the Asia-Pacific region. IGES aims to influence the policy-making processes of international organizations as well as national and local governments, and the activities of businesses, NGOs and local citizens. Read More Source : http://www.iges.or.jp/en/news/topic/image/FW_Knowl   Feb 05, 2010 Informaworld.com: Water, food and livelihoods in river basins Conflicting demands for food and water, exacerbated by increasing population, increase the risks of food insecurity, poverty and environmental damage in major river systems. Agriculture remains the predominant water user, but the linkage between water, agriculture and livelihoods is more complex than "water scarcity increases poverty". Read More Source : http://pdfserve.informaworld.com/251111_731368108_   Feb 05, 2010 Environmental-expert.com: China's clever water use boosts food yields David Molden, deputy director-general for research at the International Water Management Institute (IMWI) in Sri Lanka, said that IMWI has found differences in water productivity between countries to be less clear cut than Baoguo's research suggests. Read More Source : http://www.environmental-expert.com/resultEachPres   Jan 25, 2010 SciDev.net: Invest in water for farming, or the world will go hungry Super crops won't be enough - the planet will run short of food by 2030 unless we invest to avoid an imminent world water crisis, says Colin Chartres. A few years ago, my organisation, the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), demonstrated that many countries are facing severe water scarcity, either because insufficient fresh water is available or because they lack investment in water infrastructure, such as dams and reservoirs. What makes matters worse is that this scarcity predominantly affects developing countries where the majority of the world's 840 million under-nourished people live. Read More Source : http://www.scidev.net/   Jan 12, 2010 Mckinsey Report - Charting our water future An assortment of water experts across the non-profit and private sectors outline the difficulties of the water challenge, as well as the actions that can be taken to cost-effectively and sustainably close the water gap. Read More Source : http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/   Jan 12, 2010 Environmental-expert.com: Engineering community calls for evidence Engineering the Future, an alliance of engineering organisations, is calling on consultants, utility companies, academics, government agencies and non-governmental organisations to submit evidence to an inquiry into global water security. Water security presents a growing threat in many parts of the world, with the International Water Management Institute estimating additional water demand of around 30% by 2030. Along with the demand for food and energy, this huge increase in the demand for water is a consequence of increasing standards of living and a global population set to pass 8 billion by 2030. Read More Source : http://www.environmental-expert.com/resultEachPres   Jan 08, 2010 Edition.cnn.com: 'Water justice' advocate: Don't privatize A third of the world's population is suffering from water shortages, according to the International Water Management Institute. The United Nations estimates that by 2025, two-thirds of the population will be affected by scarcities. Read More Source : http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/science/01/07/wat   Dec 17, 2009 Climate Change: The Tragedy of the Himalayas It's a population that is stressed for water, even if the ice doesn't disappear. According to the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), most of South Asia is already in a state of water scarcity, as is much of China. At the same time, the population in this part of the world is set to expand, even as economic growth increases competition for water used in agriculture and industry. Read More Source : http://www.waterconserve.org   Dec 14, 2009 Telegraph.co.uk: Al Gore shows us the way to make green from being green In a presentation to the UN last month, Dr Colin Chartres, director general of the International Water Management Institute, said that within the next 40 years the world would have an additional 2.5bn mouths to feed and global food production will have to double. Read More Source : http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/en   Dec 14, 2009 Dawn.com: Heading for hunger Chronic food shortages, spawning social unrest, will plague the entire region by 2050 at the very latest, according to a recently released report issued by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation with input from the International Water Management Institute. It also indicates that the Asian population will increase by approximately 1.5 billion people over the next 40 years. Read More Source : http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-l   Dec 14, 2009 Bangkokpost.com: Six agencies sued over cadmium pollution Cadmium contamination was detected in early 2004 by foreign scientists from the International Water Management Institute, which found that several hundred villagers in the tambons had high levels of cadmium in their blood, suspected to have come from eating cadmium-contaminated rice. Read More Source : http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/29111/six-ag   Dec 13, 2009 Follow IWMI's Tweets from the COP15 Summit 15th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15) - Copenhagen, Denmark IWMI is Twittering from COP15. View photos and follow the latest tweets from Copenhagen. Read More Source : http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/   Dec 10, 2009 Scidev.net: Invest in water for farming, or the world will go hungry A few years ago, my organisation, the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), demonstrated that many countries are facing severe water scarcity, either because insufficient fresh water is available or because they lack investment in water infrastructure, such as dams and reservoirs. What makes matters worse is that this scarcity predominantly affects developing countries where the majority of the world's 840 million under-nourished people live. Read More Source : http://www.scidev.net/en/climate-change-and-energy   Dec 10, 2009 Mckinsey.com: Charting Our Water Future When I chaired the Second World Water Forum in The Hague in 2000, I set out a simple mission: to make water everyone’s business. I am therefore gratified that the 2030 Water Resources Group--a consortium of mostly private companies from several important sectors of the world economy--has made it their business to put together this report. Read More Source : http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Ch   Dec 10, 2009 Adaptationlearning.net: Don't ignore agriculture in climate talks, experts warn Signatories include Colin Chartres, director-general of the International Water Management Institute; William Dar, director-general of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics; M. S. Swaminathan, former minister of agriculture, India; Joachim von Braun, director-general of the International Food Policy Research Institute; and Robert Zeigler, director-general of the International Rice Research Institute. Read More Source : http://www.adaptationlearning.net/news/dont-ignore   Dec 10, 2009 Lloyds.com: Worldwide water crisis: time is running out Yet around one third of the population already lives in areas where water is physically or economically scarce due to insufficient investment in the necessary infrastructure, according to the International Water Management Institute (IWMI). Read More Source : http://www.lloyds.com/News_Centre/Features_from_Ll   Dec 07, 2009 Theecologist.co.uk: Coca-Cola just part of India's water 'free-for-all' According to Dr David Molden from International Water Management Institute in Sri Lanka (IWMI) many thousands of villages that are unable to get water even from tankers have been abandoned completely. ??And if they haven't yet been abandoned they are a potential site of conflict. Read More Source : http://www.theecologist.co.uk/News/news_analysis/3   Dec 07, 2009 Forbes.com: The Big Gulp The River Interlinking Project appears settled as official policy but, this being India, is of course not free of controversy. The Godavari, which emanates in Maharashtra state, flows across India and drains into the Bay of Bengal at Rajahmundry in Andhra Pradesh. The International Water Management Institute, headquartered in Colombo and funded by 60 governments, says the Godavari doesn't have surplus water, the main assumption behind this project, and three-crops-a-year paddy farmers will suffer. Read More Source : http://www.forbes.com/global/2009/1214/companies-m   Dec 07, 2009 Kashmirwatch.com: Seeking abrogation of IWT is as good as seeking independence Extensive research done under the aegis of the Colombo-based International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and Mumbai-based Sir Ratan Tata Trust revealed that once a lively hydraulic society state is facing growing water scarcity and ecological degradation with its vast biological capital eroding with depleting glaciers and shrunk water bodies all now lying in a decrepit state in Kashmir. Read More Source : http://www.kashmirwatch.com/showarticles.php?subac   Dec 01, 2009 Iwmi.cgiar.org: International Workshop on "Tackling Water and Food Crisis in South Asia: Insights from the Indus Gangetic Basin" Indus-Gangetic Basin (IGB) Focal Project is an initiative by the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF), lead by International Water Management Institute and with a host of global and national partners. Indus-Gangetic basin is one of the most populous in the world and given the diversity of agro-climatic, social and economic conditions in the four riparian countries - India, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh, it is clearly one of the most complex river basin systems in the world. Read More Source : http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/News_Room/Archives/Tackl   Nov 20, 2009 Upenn.edu: Battling the Elements: How Can India's Farmers Cope with Drought? Yet despite advances, many farmers still don't have access to irrigation and depend on current rainfall to see them through each sowing season. Even the irrigation systems that are available leave much to be desired, says a report published in August by the non-profit International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), titled "Revitalizing Asia's Irrigation. Read More Source : http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/india/article.c   Nov 19, 2009 EVENT: International Conference on Sustainable Water Management, 15-17 Sep 2010, Jamshoro - Pakistan The scientific committee for The International Conference on Sustainable Water Management in Developing and Transition Countries (SWM2010) is pleased to invite abstracts for consideration for the oral and poster presentations of full papers at SW2010 to be held from 15-17th September 2010 at Mehran University of Engineering and Technology Pakistan. The abstracts submission deadline is 15th December, 2009. For submission instructions, please visit: http://www.wedc.com.pk/swm2010/ Read More Source : http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/   Nov 18, 2009 ScientificAmerican.com: Tree Ring Science and Tomorrow's Water Tree ring expert Kevin Anchukaitis, of the tree ring lab at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, part of Columbia University's Earth Institute, talks about the information available in tree rings. And Colin Chartres, the director general of the International Water Management Institute, talks to Lynn Peeples about water issues. Read More Source : http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.   Nov 18, 2009 Theaustralian.com.au: Agricultural scientists too thin on ground A recent a study by the International Water Management Institute and the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation warns that many Asian countries may need to import a quarter of their rice, wheat and maize or corn by 2050. Last year the world faced a cereal crisis as wheat stocks dropped to a 30-year low. Demand for wheat and rice had outstripped supply for six of the previous seven years. Grain prices rocketed, resulting in civil unrest. Read More Source : http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/a   Nov 18, 2009 Dailynews.lk: IFS Scientist wins prestigious award An alumni of the Devi Balika Vidyalaya in Colombo, Dr. Vithanage completed her Bachelor's Degree in Natural Resources at the Sabaragamuwa University in 2002. Following the completion of a Master's degree in Environmental Sciences at the Peradeniya University she was selected for a Doctoral Scholarship by the Copenhagen University, Denmark and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) in Sri Lanka to conduct field work and computer modelling of the complex, unprecedented contamination of freshwater wells and the groundwater aquifers of the coast belt of Sri Lanka in the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami. Read More Source : http://www.dailynews.lk/2009/11/18/news28.asp   Nov 08, 2009 Reliefweb.int: Panellist Calls for 'Blue Revolution' As Global Population Grows Amid Shrinking Water Resources for Agriculture Concurring with that assessment, Colin Chartres, Director of the International Water Management Institute, noted that, because of climate change and other issues, water had become scarcer over the last few decades, and emphasized that water issues must be addressed in a holistic manner. But while water availability had changed, human habits had not. After the green revolution in agriculture, it was crucial to enable a "blue revolution". Read More Source : http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/MUMA-   Nov 08, 2009 Firstscience.com: A blue revolution: The key to future food security Colombo, Sri Lanka 6th November 2009. "We will need nothing less than a 'Blue Revolution', if we are to achieve food security and avert a serious water crisis in the future said Dr. Colin Chartres, Director General of the Sri Lanka - based International Water Management Institute. Chartres was speaking to the Economic and Finance Committee of the UN General Assembly, at a special event on "Enhancing Water Governance", convened by the UN today. He stressed that only strategic investments in water can address the massive pressure that population growth, changing diets, urbanization and climate change are having on the world's water resources. Read More Source : http://www.firstscience.com/home/news/agriculture/   Nov 05, 2009 IWMI's Director General addresses UN General Assembly at special event on "Enhancing Governance on Water" Dr. Colin Chartres, IWMI's Director General has been invited to address the Economic and Finance Committee of the UN General Assembly on 6th November 2009. This is at a special event on "Enhancing Governance on Water". During this event, experts will discuss some of the key issues on the global water agenda, such as how to cooperate over transboundary water resources, strengthen the response to climate change through smart water management and reduce the impacts of water related disasters. Read More Source : www.iwmi.org   Nov 06, 2009 Circleofblue.org: India's Leaders Argue Over River Linking Plan The project is designed to move 178 cubic kilometers of water from northern Himalayan rivers to the drier south via 30 diversion projects, which includes 3,000 storage reservoirs and 14,900 km of canals, according to a report by the International Water Management Institute. China's similar inter-basin project, the South-North Water Transfer Project has a planned capacity of 48 cubic kilometers. Read More Source : http://www.circleofblue.org/waternews/2009/world/i   Nov 05, 2009 Timesofindia.indiatimes.com: Money For Nothing The common pool resource in which everyone has a stake today is groundwater, on which rural India has come to depend overwhelmingly. Most NREGS investments, on private or public land, contribute to ground-water recharge as a significant spillover benefit. Desilting village ponds or digging new ones, cleaning field channels, digging farm or fish ponds - all contribute. It is in this context that the furore over using NREGS funds on private lands needs to be viewed. If building and/or desilting farm/fish ponds or irrigation channels under NREGS on private lands promotes durable assets through better supervision by owners and enhanced groundwater recharge, there may be merit in supporting such investments. The writer is a senior fellow at the International Water Management Institute. Read More Source : http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/opinion/ed   Nov 04, 2009 Circlevilleherald.com: Water conservation: A virtue, value, necessity The foods we eat also have a water footprint. Meat is the biggest water hog. It takes eight times more water to produce 500 calories of animal-based food than the same amount of plant-based food, says the International Water Management Institute. Processed foods like soda and chips are also water intensive. So eating less meat and more fresh food is not only healthy, but saves water too! Read More Source : http://www.circlevilleherald.com/articles/2009/11/   Nov 03, 2009 EVENT : June 15-17, 2010 - Toward Sustainable Groundwater in Agriculture An International Conference Linking Science and Policy. This three-day conference will provide scientists, policymakers, agricultural and environmental stakeholders, local, state and federal governmental officials, and consultants with the latest scientific, management, legal and policy advances for sustaining our groundwater resources in agricultural regions around the world. Read More Source : www.ag-groundwater.org   Oct 22, 2009 Miller-mccune.com: Finding Water from Outer Space Finding more fresh water is one of the paramount challenges of the 21st century. Nearly one-third of the human race lacks reliable access to clean water, according to the International Water Management Institute. Some 3 million people - most of them children - die every year from diseases spread by contaminated water. A 2007 report by the U.N. Environment Program predicts that by 2025, if population growth and environmental degradation continue apace, 1.8 billion people will live in countries with "absolute water scarcity." Read More Source : http://miller-mccune.com/science_environment/findi   Oct 14, 2009 World Food Day - October 16th, 2009 "We are fond of justifying our efforts in the name of the poor. We should keep in mind that while they are the first to suffer, they are not the last. The sooner we heed the signs of the coming food crisis, the less suffering there will be all around." Dr. Colin Chartres, Director General of the International Water Management Institute. Read More Source : http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/   Oct 13, 2009 Ftd.de: Politics of water' leaves Punjab in deep trouble The degradation of the irrigation system reflects a wider crisis in India's water supply. The International Water Management Institute and the Food and Agriculture Organisation have warned Asian countries to reform water policies urgently and step up irrigation investment if they are to meet future food needs. Read More Source : http://www.ftd.de/karriere-management/business-eng   Oct 11, 2009 Newsblaze.com: World Food Day: Citizens' of World Focus David Seckler of the International Water Management Institute writes "Many of the most populous countries of the world - China, India, Pakistan, Mexico, and nearly all the countries of the Middle East and North Africa - have literally been having a free ride over the past two or three decades by depleting their groundwater resources. Read More Source : http://newsblaze.com/story/20091007054116tsop.nb/t   Oct 11, 2009 Ngrguardiannews.com: NEST launches Aba climate change adaptation scheme Others include Climate Change and Human Health in Accra, Ghana by the Regional Institute for Population Studies, University of Ghana; Exploring Urban-Rural Interdependence and the Impacts of Climate Change in Tanzania and Malawi, by Institute of Resource Assessment, University of Dar Es Salaam; and, Managing Water in the Rural-urban Interface in Ghana and Ethiopia: the Key to Climate Change Resilient Cities by the International Water Management Institute. Read More Source : http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/homes_property/arti   Oct 11, 2009 Iwmi.org: Dr. David Molden wins PAWEES International Award The PAWEES International Award recognizes individuals who have made significant academic, service or research contributions in the field of paddy and water environment engineering. The award was bestowed at the PAWEES award ceremony on October 7 th 2009, in IBP (Institut Pertanian Bogor - Bogor Agricultural University) International Center, Bogor City, Indonesia. Read More Source : http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/News_Room/Archives/PAWEE   Oct 11, 2009 Dr. David Molden wins PAWEES International Award The PAWEES International Award recognizes individuals who have made significant academic, service or research contributions in the field of paddy and water environment engineering. The award was bestowed at the PAWEES award ceremony on October 7 th 2009, in IBP (Institut Pertanian Bogor - Bogor Agricultural University) International Center, Bogor City, Indonesia. Read More Source : http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/News_Room/Archives/PAWEE   Oct 12, 2009 NEST launches Aba climate change adaptation scheme Others include Climate Change and Human Health in Accra, Ghana by the Regional Institute for Population Studies, University of Ghana; Exploring Urban-Rural Interdependence and the Impacts of Climate Change in Tanzania and Malawi, by Institute of Resource Assessment, University of Dar Es Salaam; and, Managing Water in the Rural-urban Interface in Ghana and Ethiopia: the Key to Climate Change Resilient Cities by the International Water Management Institute. Read More Source : http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/homes_property/arti   Oct 12, 2009 World Food Day: Citizens' of World Focus David Seckler of the International Water Management Institute writes "Many of the most populous countries of the world - China, India, Pakistan, Mexico, and nearly all the countries of the Middle East and North Africa - have literally been having a free ride over the past two or three decades by depleting their groundwater resources. Read More Source : http://newsblaze.com/story/20091007054116tsop.nb/t   Oct 06, 2009 hinduonnet.com: Farmers reluctant to invest in drip irrigation Madar Samad, Regional Director, International Water Management Institute (IWMI), South Asia Office, Hyderabad, and K. Palanisami, Director, IWMI-TATA Policy Research Programme, Hyderabad, spoke, among others. Read More Source : www.hinduonnet.com   Oct 06, 2009 Neurope.eu: UN says water resource management needs an upgrade A report published by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation and the International Water Management Institute cautioned that Asia might witness a large rise in demand for food creating risk of shortages, Eurasianet.org reported. The report calls for better management of water resources to avert food shortages across Asia given the lack of spare land available for cultivation and the increasingly unpredictable climate, it concludes that the only option is to improve the ways in which existing water resources are managed, for example by investing in more efficient irrigation systems. Read More Source : www.neurope.eu   Oct 06, 2009 Neurope.eu: UN says water resource management need A report published by the United Nations Food and Read More Source : http://www.neurope.eu/articles/96621.php   Oct 06, 2009 Farmers reluctant to invest in drip irrigation Madar Samad, Regional Director, International Water Management Institute (IWMI), South Asia Office, Hyderabad, and K. Palanisami, Director, IWMI-TATA Policy Research Programme, Hyderabad, spoke, among others. Read More Source : http://www.hinduonnet.com/2009/09/11/stories/20090   Sep 29, 2009 development: Diminishing food security - Syed Mohammad Ali Overall, Asia's food and feed demand is expected to double by 2050. As there is little scope to expand arable land, growing the extra food can requires better management of land and water supplies. According to specialised agencies like the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), most Asian countries are facing the prospect of importing more rice, wheat and maize, to feed their populations. Read More Source : http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009   Sep 24, 2009 9 Environmental Boundaries We Don’t Want to Cross International Water Management Institute researcher David Molden said the 4,000 cubic kilometer ceiling on freshwater use - roughly one-third of all freshwater - "may be too high." Myles Allen, an Oxford University climatologist, argued that CO2 emissions should be counted in a different way. Cristian Samper, director of the U.S. Natural History Museum, said that taxonomic family loss is a more relevant measure than species loss. Read More Source : http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/earth-us   Sep 11, 2009 Drought-like conditions may lead to higher milk production in state: study The study by IWMI, a non-profit scientific organisation funded by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), is an analysis of early drought-like conditions. The study is based on the premises like "as crops fail, farmers divert land, water and other resources to produce more feed and fodder to preserve their livelihoods and income," and "cattle respond strongly, and immediately, to better feeding by readily yielding more milk." Read More Source : http://www.indianexpress.com/news/droughtlike-cond   Sep 10, 2009 Time to look at your water footprint? India, China, Pakistan and other large countries avoided famines in the 1970s and 1980s only because they built giant state-sponsored irrigation systems and introduced better seeds and fertilisers. But the extra 1.5 billion people expected to live on the continent by 2050 coupled with rising incomes will more than double Asia's demand for food, according to a report from the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the World Bank-funded International Water Management Institute (IWMI). Read More Source : http://csr-asia.com/   Sep 10, 2009 A dried-up India and an agriculture crisis Even the International Water Management Institute has warned in a recent report that countries in Asia need to update their run-down irrigation systems if they wish to meet the challenge of feeding an extra 1.5 billion people by 2050. And it is not a hidden fact that India is going to have the biggest share of these additional numbers. Read More Source : http://www.zeenews.com/zeeexclusive/2009-09-07/559   Aug 30, 2009 Food Shortage Inevitable for Asia by 2050 Wheat and maize will also be adversely affected by the water shortages, the new study by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and the United Nations (UN) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) shows. By 2050, a large number of Asian nations could end up importing more than a quarter of their necessary crops, which would place them at an increased dependency on the outside world. Read More Source : http://news.softpedia.com/news/Food-Shortage-Inevi   Aug 30, 2009 Beefed-up diets of Asias middle class may lead to chronic food shortages According to a report in National Geographic News, the threat was highlighted in a study by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), which estimate that Asian demand for food and livestock fodder will double in 40 years. Read More Source : http://www.littleabout.com/news/31556,beefed-diets   Aug 30, 2009 Booming Middle-Class Diet May Stress Asia's Water Needs The threat was highlighted in a study by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), which estimate that Asian demand for food and livestock fodder will double in 40 years. At current crop yields, East Asia would need 47 percent more irrigated farmland and to find 70 percent more water, the study found. Read More Source : http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/08/09   Aug 26, 2009 Measuring the Damage of our 'Water Footprint' "By 2050, we will be confronted with the paradoxical situation of having to feed another 2.5 billion people, but with significantly less water," said Colin Chartres, director general of the International Water Management Institute, an internationally funded, non-profit organization looking into ways to improve land and water management. Read More Source : http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,6   Aug 25, 2009 Asia Faces Increased Reliance on Food Imports without Water Reform: Report Developing countries in Asia could have to import more than a quarter of the rice, wheat and maize needed to feed their populations by 2050, a new report by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and the Food and Agricultural Organization says. Read More Source : http://ictsd.net/i/news/biores/53367/   Aug 25, 2009 Only a price on water can end threat to food security Colin Chartres is Director General of the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), headquartered in Colombo, Sri Lanka and former Chief Science Advisor to Australia’s National Water Commission. Read More Source : http://www.sciencealert.com.au/opinions/20092108-1   Aug 19, 2009 Asia's Water Crisis Asia faces a water usage crisis which, if not addressed urgently, will cause food shortages and sharply higher prices in the not too distant future. That is the conclusion of a study being published this week by the International Water Management Institute in conjunction with the Asian Development Bank and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization. And that, says the report, is without taking account of the impact of climate change on rainfall patterns. Read More Source : http://asiasentinel.com/index.php?option=com_conte   Aug 19, 2009 World Water Week opens with discussions on water’s role in peace, economic development, and public health High level panel explores the impact of politics and power on transboundary waters; SIWI releases a primer on effective cooperation in transboundary basins. The 2009 World Water Week in Stockholm formally opened this morning with a plenary session addressing key facets of the week's central theme of Responding to Global Changes: Accessing Water for the Common Good. Read More Source : http://www.environmental-expert.com/resultEachPres   Aug 19, 2009 Innovation urged for water management in Asia Asian irrigation systems require urgent reform, according to a report published on 18 August by the International Water Management Institute in Battaramulla, Sri Lanka, together with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and other partner groups. Read More Source : http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090819/full/460943   Aug 19, 2009 International Water Management Institute (IWMI) IWMI is one of 15 international research centers supported by the network of 60 governments, private foundations and international and regional organizations collectively known as the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). It is a non-profit organization with a staff of 350 and offices in over 10 countries across Asia and Africa and Headquarters in Colombo, Sri Lanka. IWMI's Mission is to improve the management of land and water resources for food, livelihoods and nature. Read More Source : http://www.environmental-expert.com/STSE_ResultEac   Aug 19, 2009 Asian irrigation systems need updating to meet future food supply challenges A new joint report from the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), presented at the World Water Week Conference in Sweden on 18 August, warns that Asian irrigation systems need to be updated to meet the challenge of feeding an extra 1.5 billion people by 2050. Read More Source : http://www.research4development.info/news.asp?arti   Aug 20, 2009 Coordinated efforts urged to solve water issues The population in Asia, however, is projected to increase by 1.5 billion people by 2050, and its food and feed demand is expected to double by then, according to a report released by the FAO and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) on Tuesday, August 18. So, the report pointed out that governments in Asian countries have to speed up cooperation between the enterprises and scientific researching institutes, improve irrigation for farmland, promote water-saving irrigation and transform farmland with low or middle yield. Read More Source : http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90780/91343/673   Aug 20, 2009 Asia could face food shortage by 2050, says study A study of irrigation in Asia conducted by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the International Water Management Institute has concluded that water reform is urgently needed in the region to feed extra "1.5 billion people by 2050". Read More Source : http://www.zeenews.com/news556325.html   Aug 20, 2009 Study: Asia needs water reform to cope with population growth Without necessary reforms, many Asian nations "face the politically risky prospect of having to import more than a quarter of the rice, wheat and maize they will need by 2050," the joint report from the International Water Management Institute (IWWI) and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said. Read More Source : http://www.topnews.in/study-asia-needs-water-refor   Aug 20, 2009 Asia needs a 'Blue Revolution' for water usage Asia needed a "Blue Revolution" to reform its water usage in order to feed another 1.5 billion people by 2050, Colin Chartres, Director General of the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), told Xinhua in a recent exclusive interview in London. Read More Source : http://www.china.org.cn/environment/news/2009-08/1   Aug 19, 2009 Water shortage threatens Asia’s food supplies By 2050, an extra 1.5 billion people will live in Asia, piling even more pressure on already scarce food supplies, said a study by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI). It also forecast that by 2050, developing countries in Asia look likely to need to import more than a quarter of the rice, wheat and maize needed to feed their populations. Read More Source : http://www.soschildrensvillages.org.uk/charity-new   Aug 19, 2009 International experts urge Asia to manage water supplies better on farms or face food crisis "If we don't manage to do that there will be increases in malnutrition, increases in poverty, increases in social unrest," said Colin Chartres, director general of the International Water Management Institute. Chartres cautioned that the problem will spill into Asian neighbours, based on the experiences of the food crisis of 2007-2008. Read More Source : http://www.metronews.ca/calgary/live/article/28499   Aug 19, 2009 Global experts warn of Asian water, food crisis Director General Colin Chartres of the International Water Management Institute says continued water waste will lead to increased malnutrition, poverty and social unrest that will spill into Asia's neighbors. Read More Source : http://www.oregonlive.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/bas   Aug 19, 2009 Water crisis to hit Asian food The findings are published in a new joint report by the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI). They suggest that Asian countries will need to import more than a quarter of their rice and other staples to feed their populations. Read More Source : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8206466.st   Aug 18, 2009 India's thirsty farms drain rocks dry Indian farmers now pump 60 per cent of their water from underground reserves beneath their land because irrigation canals are emptying the country's rivers, says Colin Chartres, head of the International Water Management Institute, a non-profit research centre based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Read More Source : http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17620-indias   Aug 18, 2009 Lack of water threatens Asia’s future: UN report India, China, Pakistan and other large countries avoided famines in the 1970s and 1980s only because they built giant state-sponsored irrigation systems and introduced better seeds and fertilizers. But the extra 1.5 billion people expected to live on the continent by 2050 will double Asia's demand for food, says the report from the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Bank-funded International Water Management Institute (IWMI). Read More Source : http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/200   Aug 18, 2009 Irrigation Company Of Upper Region Board Inaugurated He added that, the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) has indicated that, out of the total area hectares under cultivation in the Sub-Saharan Africa, only an estimated 2.4% is under irrigation providing for only 10% of agriculture production. Read More Source : http://www.modernghana.com/news/231546/1/irrigatio   Aug 18, 2009 Climbing the water ladder - Multiple-use Water services for poverty reduction The International Water Management Institute, IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre and International Development Enterprises established partnerships with water service provider groups in eight countries. Partners included water users and grassroots movements, local private service providers, national NGOs, governmental domestic sub-sector agencies and representatives from the productive sub-sectors, local government, and national knowledge centres. Read More Source : http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/MYAI-   Aug 18, 2009 Asia faces food shortage by 2050 without water reform This warning, along with related forecasts and possible solutions, appear in a report entitled, "Revitalizing Asia's Irrigation: To Sustainably Meet Tomorrow's Food Needs", which was presented today at 2009 World Water Week in Stockholm by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI). IWMI, FAO and partner researchers obtained the findings using a computer model called WATERSIM, which helps examine difficult tradeoffs between food security and the environment, specifically in relation to water supplies. Read More Source : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-08/bc-   Aug 18, 2009 Irrigation reform needed in Asia The report - jointly produced by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) based in Battaramulla, Sri Lanka, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the Asia-Pacific Water Forum - warns that Asian countries must modernize their ageing irrigation systems if they are to produce enough food to feed their growing populations in the future. Read More Source : http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090817/full/news.2   Aug 18, 2009 Asia faces food shortage without water reform: UN An extra 1.5 billion people will live in Asia by 2050, putting even more pressure on already scarce food supplies, said the study, issued by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI). Read More Source : http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/news_room/pdf/Asia_faces   Aug 18, 2009 Welcome to Stockholm Water Week! Meet up with us at Stockholm World Water Week 16-22 August, 2009 and walk a mile for water! Download presentations and watch videos from Stockholm. Read More Source : http://www.iwmi.org/   Aug 14, 2009 International Water Management Institute Global Policy Dialogue Model The IWMI Global Policy Dialogue Model (PODIUM) is a interactive policy planning and scenario analysis tool which explores the trade-offs and future demands on water resources on a national scale. It is intended to foster dialog and stakeholder participation, and provide a basis for multi-sectoral planning and analysis. It is not intended to be used as a quantitatively reliable predictive Read More Source : http://gcmd.nasa.gov/records/PODIUM.html   Aug 10, 2009 From Bitter Injustice to Natural Threats The recent report by Colombo-based International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and Earthscan of London called "Water for Food, Water for Life" says indigenous peoples are feeling the brunt of a water crisis in Africa, South and East Asia, and in the western parts of South America. Read More Source : http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Art   Aug 10, 2009 Wish you weren't here: The devastating effects of the new colonialists Indeed, in many places underground, aquifers are falling; in some regions by several metres a year. Rivers are running dry due to over-use. And the worst problems are in some of the world's most important agricultural areas. If current trends hold, Frank Rijsberman of the International Water Management Institute has warned, soon "we could be facing annual losses equivalent to the entire grain crops of India and the US combined". Between them, they produce a third of all the world's cereals. Read More Source : http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/wi   Aug 10, 2009 Could We All Be Drinking Seawater Soon? Another sunny day in southern California, the sun shining down from a cloudless blue sky onto lawns slowly turning brown, pavement baking in 90 degree temperatures and fresh water in short supply. Add to that a growing population and you've got a crisis on your hands–and one not limited to California. According to the International Water Management Institute, about 33% of the world’s population will be facing water scarcity by 2025. One solution has been wastewater recycling plants like the one up and running now in Orange County. Read More Source : http://trueslant.com/eilenezimmerman/2009/08/06/co   Jul 26, 2009 Stockholm Water Front - Feeding Everyone: The Big Water Issue If we continue to go on with business as usual in the agricultural water sector, we will not have enough water to feed the expected 9 billion people on the planet in 2050 Read More Source : http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/news_room/pdf/WF_2-2009.   Jul 27, 2009 Groundwater crisis could hit India as climate changes Managing underground water storage will be crucial for coping with future hydro-climatic change in India, according to Tushaar Shah of the International Water Management Institute in Colombo. Depleted aquifers mean higher greenhouse gas emissions as groundwater is pumped and less water available during periods of drought. Traditionally India has relied on surface storage and gravity flow to water crops but in recent years it has come to depend heavily on groundwater to irrigate crops and to cope with dry spells. Read More Source : http://environmentalresearchweb.org/cws/article/fu   Jul 24, 2009 FEATURE-Drought takes toll on Iraq revival efforts "It's everything going on at once. It's the urbanisation, it's the climate change, short-term variability in climate, increased demand for food," said David Molden, deputy head of the International Water Management Institute in Sri Lanka. "Iraq is one place, but it's not alone in the world ... Yes you can always blame neighbours or climate change but ultimately we've got to change the way water is managed," he said. Read More Source : http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LR135596.   Jul 22, 2009 BPA assures smooth resettlement of affected communities Mr. Sylvester Zigah, Development Programme Officer of BPA, gave this assurance at the first Annual Meeting of Dam Affected Communities, organised by the Secretariat of the Ghana Dams Dialogue-International Water Management institute (IWMI) Process for "Promoting Sustainable Development and Management of Dams in Ghana." The objective of the dialogue was to contribute towards, equitable, transparent, participatory and sustainable development of dams in Ghana. Read More Source : file:///C:/Users/swickrama/Desktop/bpa-assures-smo   Jul 21, 2009 Ghana: Country Explores Sea Water As an Alternative to Potable Water It was under the auspices of the Water Resources Commission (WRC), the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF) ? a research initiative with a goal to increase the productivity of water used for agriculture, leaving more water for other users and the environment. He explained that Ghana is not the first country to explore the above possibility and that it is being used worldwide. He noted that sea water is available and knowing that fresh water is scarce and diminishing in quantity, it is appropriate to search for other means to transform the abundant to get potable water supply. Read More Source : http://allafrica.com/stories/printable/20090720146   Jul 19, 2009 Sea Water To Be Made Potable It was organised by the Water Resources Commission (WRC) in collaboration with the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and the CGIAR Challenge Programme on Water for Food. The treatment plant will be located at Teshie-Nungua. Mr. Aboagye did not disclose the name or names of the companies to undertake the project but said a local firm with foreign partners would be in charge of the project. Read More Source : http://www.newtimesonline.com/story/341   Jul 19, 2009 Ghana to harness sea water for household use Mr Aboagye said: "As we all know fresh water is diminishing in quantity and we need to fall on sea water, which is in abundance. "We need to take a serious look at issues that will ensure that each and every one have a fair share and judicious use of water resources," The workshop was organised by the Water Resources Commission (WRC) in collaboration with the International Water Management Institute, to disseminate results of the study on "how formal water laws foster the development of small-scale water users". Read More Source : http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/   Jul 13, 2009 EVENT : June 15-17, 2010 - Toward Sustainable Groundwater in Agriculture An International Conference Linking Science and Policy. This three-day conference will provide scientists, policymakers, agricultural and environmental stakeholders, local, state and federal governmental officials, and consultants with the latest scientific, management, legal and policy advances for sustaining our groundwater resources in agricultural regions around the world. Read More Source : www.ag-groundwater.org   Jul 09, 2009 Media Release: The 12th International Riversymposium The 12th International Riversymposium is a significant world event for water and river management. Running from 21 – 24 September 2009, the theme is 'Rivers from Source to Sea' and leading international scientists, industry experts, community groups, NGOs, lawyers, economists, bureaucrats and business people will gather to explore the challenges and solutions associated with attaining healthy rivers. Read More Source : http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/News_Room/Press_Releases   Jul 07, 2009 IWMI Rated as "Outstanding" by the World Bank In 2008, the World Bank gave IWMI an 'outstanding' rating for performance. IWMI is one of four centers in the CGIAR to receive this rating which is the highest of three performance categories. Centers were assessed on the basis of their 2008 performance in the CGIAR performance measurement system. The Bank plans to continue its results-based funding approach in the new CGIAR. Read More Source : http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/   Jul 06, 2009 Ashley Murray: Wastewater is a Resource Ashley is currently based at the International Water Management Institute in Ghana. She is working to rehabilitate broken wastewater treatment plants to provide (treated) wastewater to urban farmers. But the twist is that the farmers won't just receive water; they will be involved throughout the process. Land around the wastewater treatment plant will become part of the facility. Farmers will assist with daily facility maintenance. And hopefully, the net impact will be reopened wastewater treatment plants that clean water and provide important resources to local residents. Read More Source : http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/010103.html   Jul 03, 2009 A fine balance in Kutch Arid districts such as Kutch in Gujarat, and Barmer and Jaisalmer in Rajasthan mainly have livestock economies and it is not unusual to see thousands of animals-goats, cows, sheep, buffaloes and camels-moving amiably along in search of the next watering hole. It seems counter-intuitive that areas with such low rainfall should provide neighbouring states with meat and milk. IWMI (the International Water Management Institute) has done unique research to show how there is a massive export of virtual water from dry regions to wet through the sale of these products, leaving open some interesting questions on policy. Read More Source : http://www.livemint.com/2009/07/02205545/A-fine-ba   Jun 28, 2009 Water & Desalination News You Can Use The International Water Management Institute estimates 33% of the world's population will live in countries with water scarcity by 2025. That simply means that in less than 20 years, we won't be able to pretend water shortages are only confined to the Third World. In fact, there are already plenty of developed countries where water is too scarce to satisfy the needs of the population. Read More Source : http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/6/26/745172   Jun 28, 2009 PAWEES 2009 : International Conference on Promising Practices for the Development of Sustainable Paddy Fields Bogor, Indonesia, October 7-9, 2009 Rice is a primary source of food for energy consumed by almost half of the world population. Rice production is not only a matter of food production but in most Asian countries also demonstrates environmental, social and even spiritual values, or rural values. Innovation or introduction of new methods to develop paddy fields without bearing in mind these values might end up in failure. However, conventional methods, based on high yield varieties and intensive uses of artificial inputs, are also no longer acceptable, since they contribute to the degradation of natural resources and undermine rural values. Alternative or new methods of rice production are needed which will restore natural resources and rural values, while maintaining high productivities. Read More Source : http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/   Jun 17, 2009 SL: Task of livelihood rehabilitation A new chapter in the agriculture of the Northern Province can be opened by introducing farmers to conservation farming and integrated pest management and integrated natural resources management. Soil health care and enhancement, and more crop per drop of water techniques developed by the International Water Management Institute, will help increase yield and reduce the cost of production. Post-harvest processing and value addition will help generate more off-farm employment and increase earning opportunities for women. India’s assistance in strengthening agricultural research training and development will be timely. Read More Source : http://www.dailymirror.lk/DM_BLOG/Sections/frmNews   Jun 14, 2009 Food waste is my latest green crusade to make the Vail Valley and the country live greener "As much as half of the water used to grow food globally may be lost or wasted," says Dr. Charlotte de Fraiture, researcher at International Water Management Institute, in the report mentioned above. "Curbing these losses and improving water productivity provides win-win opportunities for farmers, business, ecosystems and the global hungry," she said. "An effective water-saving strategy requires that minimizing food wastage is firmly placed on the political agenda." Read More Source : http://www.vaildaily.com/article/20090614/AE/90612   Jun 15, 2009 Water for Food Conference begins A national conference on the theme of Water for Food which was organized by the International Water Management Institute, the Irrigation Department, Department of Agriculture and the Hector Kobbekaduwa Agrarian Research and Training Institute will be held from June 9-11 at the BMICH. The conference will focus on water management issues, food security, environment and climate change in Sri Lanka. Read More Source : http://www.dailynews.lk/2009/06/10/news38.asp   Jun 05, 2009 Ethiopia's Gibe III dam: a balanced assessment Seleshi Bekele, a senior researcher with the International Water Management Institute, is head of the group's East Africa and Nile Basin office based in Ethiopia. Jonathan Lautze is a post-doctoral fellow with the institute. Read More Source : http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/opinionla/la-o   May 28, 2009 Dr. Akissa Bahri to receive the Prof. C.N.R. Rao Prize for Scientific Research Dr. Akissa Bahri, Director - Africa, has been selected as the 2009 recipient of the "Prof. C.N.R. Rao Prize for Scientific Research". This prize was instituted in 2006 to honour distinguished scientists from Africa and the Least Developing Countries, who have made outstanding contributions to science and technology. The prize will be awarded to her in Durban, South Africa, on occasion of the TWAS 20th General Meeting and 11th General Conference to be held from 20th to 23rd October 2009. Read More Source :   May 29, 2009 Black to green: The carbon debate and beyond As supply problems increase, estimates by the International Water Management Institute, based in Sri Lanka, indicate that India will enter a 'stress zone' by 2025, and Pakistan and Sri Lanka shortly thereafter. Water scarcity due to groundwater depletion is already a major problem in India. Read More Source : http://www.himalmag.com/Black-to-green-The-carbon-   May 14, 2009 Students flooding IWMI Ghana Office 35 students from London University, UK, with 4 tutors, have landed in Accra, ready to work in IWMI's urban wastewater project. The students will analyze what has been achieved in urban and peri-urban agriculture development in four farming sites, located in and around Accra. Read More Source : http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/News_Room/Archives/DPU_E   May 03, 2009 EVENT: 09-11 June, 2009 - Water for Food Conference The sharp increase in food prices witnessed in the past few years has raised serious concerns about food security, especially in the developing countries. Increasing water productivity in agriculture, making targeted investments and putting in place the right institutional measures will be critical components in effective water use for food and environmental security. These issues will be discussed at the Water for Food Conference being held in Colombo from 9th to 11th June, 2009. Read More Source : http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/NationalConference/   Apr 29, 2009 Tracy Baker Writes a New Chapter in Africa Tracy Baker (formerly Baldyga), a GL-CRSP Jim Ellis fellow and past team member of the Sustainable Management of Rural Watersheds (SUMAWA) project, was supported in degree training by the GL-CRSP from 2003 to 2008, obtaining both her MS and PhD through the University of Wyoming. In this profile, Mrs. Baker answers questions about her background, her research with SUMAWA, and provides an update on life in Accra, Ghana, where she works with the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), part of the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). Read More Source : http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/News_Room/pdf/SPRG09_Rum   Apr 30, 2009 Mobile phone becoming the new frontier in agriculture "This information could be known only to experts. The challenge is how do we get it to the farmers out there, and spot-on so that they can benefit?" Nadia Manning- Thomas, a researcher with the International Water Management Institute asked IPS. Read More Source : http://www.bdafrica.com/index.php?option=com_conte   Apr 29, 2009 More Crop Per Drop The typical person consumes about 800 gallons of water per year. That includes the water that goes into making your food. The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) says that we'll need to come up with about 25% more water to feed the world's growing population. That means finding new water sources and bringing them to market or using existing water supplies more efficiently. This is exactly what mechanized irrigation does. Read More Source : http://www.howestreet.com/articles/index.php?artic   Apr 27, 2009 Experts Probe Urban Growth, Climate Change Links in Africa The resulting population growth of urban centers, in turn, places stress on natural resources, such as arable land, natural fuels, and fresh water supplies, according to Liqa Raschid-Sally, program manager in Ghana and Ethiopia for Sri Lanka based International Water Management Institute. Read More Source : http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-04-24-voa28.cf   Apr 16, 2009 Will water corruption trump water security? If that isn't bad enough who can forget the International Water Management Institute map highlighting the entire Murray Darling region as an area of projected physical water scarcity by 2025. (Physical water scarcity is when the water resources cannot meet the demands of the population.) Read More Source : http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=8   Apr 16, 2009 Peak Water Has Come and Gone Unnoticed Similarly in India, the southern state of Tamil Nadu, is fast becoming an aspirer to industrial development and home to more than 62 million people, is now facing drying wells with 95 percent of those in the farming community suffering. The International Water Management Institute has suggested that "When the balloon bursts, untold anarchy will be the lot of rural India." Read More Source : http://www.opednews.com/articles/PEAK-WATER-has-co   Apr 16, 2009 Development-Africa: A Msg Of Hope To Farmers "This information could be known only to experts. The challenge is how do we get it to the farmers out there, and spot-on so that they can benefit?" Nadia Manning- Thomas, a researcher and outreach co-ordinator with the International Water Management Institute asked IPS. Read More Source : http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=46454   Mar 24, 2009 Singapore Minister Yaacob Ibrahim Addresses at Ministerial Forum in Turkey It is in this spirit of sharing knowledge to address common challenges that the APWFs KnowledgeHubs initiative was launched in 2008. To-date, there are 13 knowledge hubs in the Asia-Pacific Region, including two located in Singapore. Each hub is committed to improving water security in the region by promoting knowledge sharing and championing feasible solutions in its specialist domain. They cover a diverse range of water concerns, from Sri Lanka's International Water Management Institute which focuses on irrigation management, to Malaysia's National Hydraulic Research Institute on climate change adaptation, to Singapore's Waterhub on urban water management. Read More Source : http://en.acnnewswire.com/Article.Asp?Art_ID=1087&   Mar 15, 2009 ENVIRONMENT-PAKISTAN: Save the Indus Plead Delta Folk Estimates by the International Water Management Institute indicate that Pakistan is among the 17 countries that are likely to face the most severe water scarcity by 2025. Ayub Dablo, another fisherman, swears that if the Indus had continued flowing uninterrupted, like it once did and watered the delta, Pakistan would not have been importing grain. He is among the millions of people whose forefathers settled in the Indus delta centuries ago. Read More Source : http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=46111   Mar 15, 2009 World Water Day 2009 - Key Water Messages from IWMI View latest video and audio messages from IWMI and download useful flyers to distribute in celebration of World Water Day 2009. This year the theme is "Shared Waters Shared Opportunities". Read More Source : http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/   Mar 11, 2009 Workshop calls for use of dam-storages to recharge state’s depleting aquifers The panel discussion was held during the final session under the chairmanship of B N Navalawala, advisor to the Chief Minister. Other participants included Dr Tushaar Shah of International Water Management Institute, R C Jain, regional director of Central Ground Water Board and former bureaucrats N B Desai, V S Brahmbhatt, and Dr S K Sharma, consultant to the Ministry of Water Resources, New Delhi. Read More Source : http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/workshop-c   Mar 02, 2009 BIOFUELS: Promise or threat? According to the International Water Management Institute (IWMI): freshwater usage worldwide has increased six-fold over the past 100 years, largely due to irrigation; water resources are dwindling; the price of water is predicted to double or triple over the coming two decades. Meanwhile, severe droughts are resulting in water shortages in Australia, India and South Central China. Droughts and ice melting at high altitudes are likely to result in declining water supplies in many regions of the world. (Peter McCornick, IWMI, "Demand For Biofuel Irrigation Worsens Global Water Crisis," keynote address at "Linkages Between Energy and Water Management for Agriculture in Developing Countries," Hyderabad, India, January 2007) Read More Source : http://www.ww4report.com/node/6926   Mar 02, 2009 ADB Commissions 2nd Water Security Outlook Organizations involved in the production of AWDO 2010 include the International Water Management Institute in Colombo, the International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management in Tsukuba, the International WaterCentre in Brisbane, the International Center for Integrated Mountain Development in Kathmandu, PUB Singapore, the Institute of Water Policy at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore, the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations in Bangkok, and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific in Bangkok. Read More Source : http://finchannel.com/index.php?option=com_content   Feb 24, 2009 Solution for the world's water woes Rising populations and growing demand is making the world a thirsty planet, says David Molden. In this week's Green Room, he says the solution lies in people reducing the size of their "water footprints". "Each of us can make a difference if we first consider the water implications of our lifestyles and the water footprint we are leaving behind". Today, one-third of the world's population has to contend with water scarcity, and there are ominous signs that this proportion could quickly increase. Read More Source : http://news.bbc.co.uk/   Feb 23, 2009 Save Bundala The other major catastrophe that has befallen this park of lagoons, tanks and water holes is the change in the water composition over the years in its water bodies. A series of studies done by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) has found that water in two of the five lagoons in the park was contaminated due to agricultural and farming practices in the area. Read More Source : http://www.sundaytimes.lk/090222/Plus/sundaytimesp   Feb 19, 2009 Eight reasons to pack your lunch As much as 30 per cent of leftover food (worth about $48.3 billion) in the U. S. is thrown away every year, according to a recent study from the Stockholm International Water Institute, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, and the international Water Management Institute. In other words, if you eat what's left of last night's dinner for lunch, you'll save money and resources better used to feed the rest of the planet. Read More Source : http://www.canada.com/Health/Eight+reasons+pack+yo   Feb 17, 2009 How African Farmers are Dealing with Climate Change Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries must rethink and adopt water storage strategies for mitigation and adaptation, said Fitsum Hagos, a social scientist with the International Water Management Institute (IWMI). SSA, he said, is one of the places that will be hit the hardest by severe water shortage as the region is already under severe water stress. Read More Source : http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Art   Feb 16, 2009 Pollution afflicts Thai farmers / Toxic cadmium poisoning symptoms similar to 'itai itai' disease The nonprofit International Water Management Institute (IWMI) concluded in 2004 that pollution of accumulated cadmium had changed the color of the rice in the area. Upon the discovery, the Thai government banned farmers in the polluted area from cultivating rice. So, Yen began growing corn for fuel use and other vegetables in place of rice, but in vain. "They didn't grow well, so I couldn't make enough money," she said. Read More Source : http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/world/20090215TDY04306   Feb 10, 2009 Solution for the world's water woes Nonetheless, the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and other research organisations have identified new and more affordable opportunities for low-cost water investment. For example, resource-poor farmers can afford low-cost drip irrigation kits, whereas conventional irrigation, which costs more than $4,000 per hectare, is well beyond their means. Read More Source : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7881382.stm   Feb 05, 2009 Sardar Sarovar way off projected path A study conducted by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) in the SSP command area has revealed that farmers are using the branch canal to divert the water to their fields. The study titled "Evolving Arrangements for Local Water Delivery in SSP Command Area" said: "A few villages like Thanwa in Vadodara branch indirectly get the water for irrigation from branch canal through a village pond. Farmers, with the help of the gate operator, get the gate opened for three-four days every month. The water rushes out of the gate and fills fields before it flows through the normal dharya to reach the village pond. The fields, which get filled with water, are thus irrigated. The villagers then lift water from the pond." Read More Source : http://www.expressindia.com/   Feb 02, 2009 Water, not land, to slow China ag expansion The International Water Management Institute reported in 2003 that on the North China Plain-home to 200 million people and source of more than half the country's wheat-streamflow had virtually stopped by 2000 because of diversions and factory usage. Beneath the plain, aquifer levels are plummeting because of the irrigation which feeds 70pc of the region's crops, according to Australian hydrologist Ray Evans of Sinclair Knight Merz. Read More Source : http://sl.farmonline.com.au/news/nationalrural/gra   Jan 29, 2009 Water for Food Conference - 9th-11th June 2009 The International Water Management Institute, Irrigation Department, Department of Agriculture and Hector Kobbekaduwa Agrarian Research and Training Institute are jointly organizing a national conference to address water management issues, food security, environment and climate change in Sri Lanka. It will be held on 9th-11th June 2009 at BMICH. Anyone wishing to participate can find more details on the conference website. Read More Source : http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/   Jan 27, 2009 Water pressure running dangerously high In 2003, Frank Rijsberman, then head of the International Water Management Institute, expressed his concern: "If present trends continue, the livelihoods of one third of the world's population will be affected by water scarcity by 2025. We could be facing annual losses equivalent to the entire grain crops of India and the US combined." Read More Source : http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/eco   Jan 26, 2009 FAO and IWMI Launch Asia Pacific Water Forum's Knowledge Hub on Irrigation Service Reform 22 January 2009: The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) launched the Asia Pacific Water Forum's Knowledge Hub for Irrigation Service Reform during a workshop held in Bangkok, Thailand, from 19 - 21 January 2009. The Knowledge Hub will work towards the modernization of irrigation in the region. Read More Source : http://www.climate-l.org/2009/01/-fao-and-iwmi-lau   Jan 19, 2009 Mae Sot locals sue two zinc mining firms for B3.7bn The Mae Tao saga began in 2004 when a study by the International Water Management Institute found that soil and water supplies in the Huay Mae Tao and Huay Mae Ku areas in Mae Sot district were heavily polluted with cadmium. The contaminated area covered 13,200 rai, including paddy fields, plantations, waterways and residential areas. The Agriculture and Cooperatives Ministry and the Pollution Control Department later confirmed the cadmium contamination, but none of the agencies could confirm the source of the pollution. Read More Source : http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/10020/mae-so   Jan 19, 2009 ADB funded IWMI-FAO Workshop on Trends and Transitions in Asian Irrigation: Prospects for the Future IWMI and FAO are co-hosting a brainstorming workshop on 'Trends and Transitions in Asian Irrigation: Prospects for the Future' from 19th to 21st January 2009 at the FAO-RAP office in Bangkok. This workshop is funded by the Asian Development Bank and around 25 experts are attending this workshop. The objective of this workshop is to brainstorm on three interrelated topics: 1. Past trends in irrigation development and their drivers 2. Irrigation management reforms 3. Future scenarios and investment options The workshop is divided into three plenary sessions followed by regional breakout sessions (see Workshop Program). The first two days are dedicated to paper presentations and regional breakout sessions while the third day will focus on brainstorming on the future irrigation investments in Asia. The final anticipated output is an Issue Paper on Asian Irrigation that will help the ADB in prioritizing its irrigation investments in Asia. This paper will be presented at the 5th World Water Forum to be held at Istanbul, Turkey in March 2009. Read More Source : http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/   Jan 08, 2009 SASB reconstituted Besides being a member on various prestigious Government and non-Government Organisations, Narain is a Member of Committee on Environment, Planning Commission of India, Environmental Pollution Authority for the National Capital Territory and International Water Management Institute, Colombo, Sri Lanka. Justice (Retd) G D Sharma has been a distinguished member of the judiciary and is presently working as President, State Consumers Forum in Jammu and Kashmir. Read More Source : http://www.risingkashmir.com/index.php?option=com_   Jan 07, 2009 As far as major pollution incidents go, Mother Nature got off pretty lightly in 2008. Meanwhile, the International Water Management Institute exposed another link between pollution and agriculture - this time the other way round. According to the organisation, 80% of farmland in or near cities in the developing world is being irrigated by sewerage. Read More Source : http://www.edie.net/news/news_story.asp?id=15805&c   Jan 04, 2009 Southern Africa Regional Conference on Agriculture On 8-9 December 2008, ReSAKSS-SA organized a high level "Southern Africa Regional Conference on Agriculture" in collaboration with "The Southern African Development Community (SADC)" and "Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)" in Gaborone, Botswana. The theme of the conference was: Agriculture-led Development for Southern Africa: Strategic Investment Priorities for Halving Hunger and Poverty by 2015. The conference, which was a huge success, was attended by about 200 high level participants representing AU/NEPAD; SADC; COMESA; Donor Partners; AGRIBUSINESS; FAO; CGIAR centers; Farmer Organisations; Civil Society Organisations; NARIS; Universities (National and International) and SADC Member States. Read More Source : http://www.iwmi.org/   Dec 11, 2008 Will the world die of thirst? Experts from the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) believe that if the current dynamics of economic and population growth persist, the demand for water will more than triple by the middle of the century, and the world will be short of drinking water in 20 years. What is the way out? It is possible to deliver food products to desert or semi-desert areas to help local people do without water-intensive agriculture. Read More Source : http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20081210/118778211.html   Dec 08, 2008 Irrigation Mitigation Approximately 50 million acres of land worldwide is used for the production of biofuels and about 11.6 trillion gallons of water is used throughout the world annually to irrigate energy crops, according to a report entitled "Biofuels and Implications for Agricultural Water Use: Blue Impacts of Green Energy" published by the International Water Management Institute. However, the global impact of irrigating crops for biofuel production is minor, the IWMI said, and the amount of water that is needed to irrigate energy crops varies widely, depending on which crops are being grown and where. Read More Source : http://ethanolproducer.com/article.jsp?article_id=   Dec 04, 2008 CGIAR Annual General Meeting 2008 "Investing in Agricultural Science: The Best Bet for the Future", is the theme of this year's Annual General Meeting of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) in Maputo, Mozambique, from 1-5 December. This year, participants are looking at how agricultural research, science and technology, and food policy initiatives can better improve the lives and livelihoods of poor people. Read More Source : http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/News_Room/Archives/AGM20   Dec 02, 2008 Chenab Water Issue: India is Leaving a Bad Taste he International Water Management Institute (IWMI) published a report in 2006 by 700 experts, warning that one in three people were 'enduring one form or another of water scarcity'. For food alone, the World Bank estimates that demand for water will rise 50 per cent by 2030, and IWMI fears it could nearly double by 2050. Read More Source : http://dailymailnews.com/200812/02/dmcolumnpage.ht   Dec 02, 2008 CAC Program Wins "CGIAR KIng Baudouin Award for Outstanding Partnership" The CAC (Central Asia and the Caucasus) Program for Sustainable Agriculture has been awarded with the "CGIAR King Baudouin Science Award for Outstanding Partnership" in Maputo, Mozambique, during the CGIAR's Annual General Meeting 2008. This award is in recognition of the outstanding partnership levels achieved in the CAC Program. The award comes with a prize of US$10,000. Read More Source : http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/News_Room/PDF/CGIAR_CAC_   Nov 19, 2008 Ganga's moment MOEF recommends a minimum flow of a little less that one cumec, while the Bhagirathi requires 13 cumecs of flow throughout the year to maintain its Class A status. The International Water Management Institute defines a Class A river as one whose water needs little treatment for drinking. New study, just hogwash? Environmentalists have criticized the pilot study on grounds that MOEF will only be repeating what the earlier committee has undertaken. Read More Source : http://www.downtoearth.org.in/full6.asp?foldername   Nov 19, 2008 The shimmer of blue gold And despite the notion that water is everywhere, consumable and usable water really is not. Supply is under pressure with only half the world's population having access to water through household or yard connections. In fact, according to the International Water Management Institute's annual report, by 2025, it is expected that approximately two thirds of the world's population or some 5.5bn people will live in areas with moderate to severe water stress. Read More Source : http://www.investorschronicle.co.uk/MarketsAndSect   Nov 11, 2008 Food crisis a warning we must heed THE director-general of the International Water Management Institute, Colin Chartres, has warned that Australia, along with the other developed nations, needs to invest more in research into agriculture and water management and in international aid. Read More Source : http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197   Nov 10, 2008 Vacancy: Director, Challenge Program On Water And Food The CPWF is an international, multi-institutional research initiative with a strong emphasis on north-south and south-south partnerships. It brings together a consortium of 18 institutions and over 200 partners, including scientists, development specialists and river basin communities in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Read More Source : http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/About_IWMI/Vacancies/CPW   Nov 04, 2008 Water experts to aid Arkville center Seckler served as director general of the International Water Management Institute from 1995 until his retirement in 2000. "We are eager to work through WDC to raise awareness of the coming water crisis," Seckler said. Seckler, Keller and Lenton visited the Catskill region over the Columbus Day weekend to learn about the area, the New York City Watershed and the plans for the Water Discovery Center. Read More Source : http://www.thedailystar.com/local/local_story_3080   Nov 04, 2008 Korean Wetlands Impress Ramsar Participants Sonali Senaratna Sellamuttu, a researcher at International Water Management Institute, said she wanted to visit the places again to look more deeply case by case. ''I am interested in how the wetlands contribute to local water management and I will be pleased to see how Korea is dealing with it," she said. Read More Source : http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/special/2008/   Nov 04, 2008 Is water the new oil? Two years ago, the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) published a report by 700 experts warning that one in three people were 'enduring one form or another of water scarcity'. 'Scarcity for me is when women work hard to get water, [or] you want to allocate more but can't,' says David Molden, deputy director of the Sri Lanka-based organisation. Read More Source : http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/nov/02/   Oct 28, 2008 Accra Consensus - Agenda for Research, Capacity Building & Action on the Safe Use of Wastewater and Excreta in Agriculture In collaboration with IDRC and WHO, IWMI organized in early October an international expert consultation in Accra, Ghana, to brainstorm about the state of the art of applied research on wastewater irrigation in low-income countries. This meeting followed the one in Hyderabad in 2002 and concluded with a Consensus statement by about 40 participants from 30 international, regional, and national institutions and universities in 17 countries. Read More Source : http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/   Oct 27, 2008 Drought Resistance Is the Goal, but Methods Differ How much could be gained by use of these new crops is not yet clear. A report in 2007 by the International Water Management Institute, which is part of a network of agricultural research centers, concluded that genetic improvements would have only a "moderate" impact over the next 15 to 20 years in making crops more efficient in using water. Read More Source : http://www.truthabouttrade.org/content/view/12598/   Oct 22, 2008 Drinking water for 800 schools Additional Secretary G. A. Kumararatne said moves are under way to obtain international assistance to take forward ongoing projects of the Government. He said only 32 per cent has access to pipe-borne drinking water facilities and said it could be increased to 90 per cent by 2015. Health and Nutrition Director of Education Ministry Renuka Pieris and Representative of International Water Management Institute Alexandra Avon also spoke. Read More Source : http://www.dailynews.lk/2008/10/23/news31.asp   Oct 16, 2008 Society must unite to build healthy nation The Sanitation Task Force (STF) in Sri Lanka yesterday announced the necessity politicians ,teachers, households and communities in general to ensure sanitation in their localities by creating adequate awareness and understanding of its importance in maintaining the health of the nation. STF made this statement yesterday at a function held to mark International Year of Sanitation. Read More Source : http://www.dailymirror.lk/   Oct 13, 2008 Canada in 2020 - Agriculture: Grow-ops Of course, feeding the world, whose population is expected to reach 8.5 billion within 30 years, will require more than just soybeans. Indeed, it will require a lot of water. Agriculture already consumes 70% of the extracted water used worldwide, and the increased appetite for meat in emerging markets will only exacerbate that usage. About 15,000 litres of water is used to produce a kilogram of beef, compared to 1,500 litres for a kilogram of wheat. The International Water Management Institute, a non-profit researcher headquartered in Colombo, Sri Lanka, estimates that at least 2,000 cubic kilometres of water per year will be needed globally by 2030 for irrigation and rain-fed crops. Read More Source : http://www.canadianbusiness.com/markets/commoditie   Oct 05, 2008 Another inconvenient truth According to a report by the International Water Management Institute, by 2025, about one third of the world's population, perhaps as many as 3 billion people, will face water shortages. From an agricultural standpoint, we may be looking at losses equivalent to the entire grain crops of India and the United States by then. According to some estimates, even without biofuels, we will very likely reach the upper limit of available fresh water for worldwide consumption, more than 2.9 billion cubic miles, by 2050. A growing reliance on biofuels would exacerbate an already difficult challenge. Read More Source : http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/05/opinion/edn   Sep 23, 2008 When the going gets tough... The report said food had to become more affordable and nutritious without degrading the land. In 2006,water specialists from numerous national institutes published the greatest-ever assessment of water and food. The International Water Management Institute's (IWMI) Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture report concluded one third of the world's farmers already faced water scarcity. Meanwhile, climate change, says the UN's Food and Agriculture organisation (FAO), is putting more pressure on the food supplies of the poor. In Bangladesh, where Dfid is contributing £75m to help adapt to climate change and maintain vulnerable food supplies, government meteorologists report higher winter temperatures, greater river flows and more flooding. Read More Source : http://www.guardian.co.uk/alloutonpoverty/hunger.c   Sep 22, 2008 Remote sensing and GIS for wetland inventory, mapping and change analysis "Remote sensing and GIS for wetland inventory, mapping and change analysis" - Rebelo et al 2008 listed as No 13 of the "Top 25 Hottest Articles". The "top 25" refers to the most read articles - counted by article downloads on ScienceDirect. Read More Source : http://top25.sciencedirect.com/   Sep 19, 2008 Health concerns over imported fruit and veg The International Water Management Institute has found some farmers in 53 developing countries use untreated sewage and urban wastewater to grow crops. Institute director general Colin Chartres says we can't assume exporting countries are properly testing all of the produce we're importing. Read More Source : http://www.abc.net.au/rural/news/content/200809/s2   Sep 19, 2008 Tacio: Running out of water The Philippines used 28.5 billion cubic meters of water in 2000. A third of that flowed into farms. According to a UN-backed study by the International Water Management Institute, the amount of water needed for crop production will rise 60-90 percent by 2050, to 11,000-13,500 cubic kilometers from 7,200 cubic kilometers today, depending on factors including population growth and crop yields. Read More Source : http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/dav/2008/09/19/op   Sep 19, 2008 Running dry MOST people may drink only two litres of water a day, but they consume about 3,000 if the water that goes into their food is taken into account. The rich gulp down far more, since they tend to eat more meat, which takes far more water to produce than grains. So as the world's population grows and incomes rise, farmers will-if they use today's methods-need a great deal more water to keep everyone fed: 2,000 more cubic kilometres a year by 2030, according to the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), a research centre, or over a quarter more than they use today. Yet in many farming regions, water is scarce and likely to get scarcer as global warming worsens. The world is facing not so much a food crisis as a water crisis, argues Colin Chartres, IWMI's director-general. Read More Source : http://www.economist.com/world/international/Print   Sep 17, 2008 Solving the food crisis needs water The International Water Management Institute, which I lead, is ready to take on this challenge and wants to do so in partnership with leading Australian and international agencies. Australian soil and water scientist, Dr. Colin Chartres is Director General of the Sri Lanka-based International Water Management Institute (IWMI), a non-profit research organization focusing on the sustainable management of water resources for food, livelihoods and the environment. Read More Source : http://www.sciencealert.com.au/opinions/20081709-1   Sep 11, 2008 Human waste to power US city "There is a large potential for wastewater agriculture to both help and hurt great numbers of urban consumers," said Liqa Raschid-Sally, who led the study published by the Sri Lanka-based International Water Management Institute and released this week at the World Water Week conference in Stockholm, Sweden. Read More Source : http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/HealthSci/Human   Sep 11, 2008 Lessons from World Water Week '06 In fact, the future would appear dire. This past week, a panel of scientists released a groundbreaking study on water usage over the past half-century. Under the banner of the International Water Management Institute, more than 700 researchers from 100 institutions across the world contributed to this important study. Their warnings should wake us from our collective slumber Read More Source : http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008527.html   Sep 10, 2008 Forecast: dry, becoming drier The Middle East and North Africa, the driest population centre on the planet, is particularly vulnerable to water shortages. According to the International Water Management Institute, every country in the MENA region suffers from physical water scarcity or is approaching it. Yemen - fabled for the fertile ancient kingdoms of Arabia Felix - is expected to be the first country in the region to deplete its ground water. Read More Source : http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/0   Sep 09, 2008 A benign dam But Surya K Sharma says there was no significant increase in the population of the other malaria vector. Also, the researchers did not come across any other vector borne disease that could be linked to the dam. "The study states its limitations that all dams will not exhibit this feature as a number of factors play a role in reducing malaria. In this instance, getting rid of the vector brought down the cases," says Priyanie Amerasinghe of International Water Management Institute, Hyderabad. Read More Source : http://www.downtoearth.org.in/full6.asp?foldername   Sep 08, 2008 Water Resources System Specialist - Ethiopia We seek a highly competent and motivated individual for the position of Water Resources System Specialist to research water resources and hydrology. The successful candidate will be based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and will report to the Head of IWMI East Africa and Nile Basin Office. Read More Source : http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/About_IWMI/Vacancies/   Sep 04, 2008 Through Bifocals That’s the conclusion of a joint report issued last month by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Water Management Institute, and the Stockholm International Water Institute. In addition, the amount of water needed to grow that food would meet the household needs of 500 million people. A population almost double that of the U.S. Read More Source : http://www.bclocalnews.com/bc_north/terracestandar   Sep 01, 2008 Of Salads and Sludge You may want to hold your nose for this one. A new study reveals where water goes when you flush the loo--basically, in your salad. In a survey of 53 countries, the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) found that the majority of produce cultivated in urban plots is irrigated with water from polluted streams, lakes or wells. While only 10 percent of global agriculture is harvested in cities (and only part of that crop is consumed raw), some 1.1 million farmers produce greens and fruit for 4.5 million people in the areas studied. Project the numbers worldwide, and at least 200 million farmers rely on recycled water to sow 20 million hectares, an area twice the size of Hungary. Read More Source : http://www.newsweek.com/id/156336   Sep 01, 2008 Tapped out But the good grace of Mother Nature to keep the valley fertile through adequate rainfall may not be enough to sustain the crop growth and drinking supply needs of the Shoals in the coming years. Dawn Rodriguez, spokeswoman for the International Water Management Institute, said it could be 25 years before the nation, as well as the planet, faces serious water shortages, largely as a result of the finite nature of water as a resource. "The causes of water scarcity are essentially identical to the food crisis," she said. "There are serious and extremely worrying factors that indicate water supplies are steadily being used up." Read More Source : http://www.timesdaily.com/article/20080831/ARTICLE   Sep 01, 2008 GLOBAL: Food wasted is water lost In Saving Water: From Field to Fork – Curbing Losses and Wastage in the Food Chain, a policy brief by the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), projected food and cereal demand could double by 2050, and the world would need 10,000 to 13,500 km3/year of water supply to keep up with production requirements. Read More Source : http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=80078   Sep 01, 2008 Millions eat food watered with wastewater A study of 53 cities across Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) showed 80% of those studied are using wastewater in urban agriculture. Revealing the results of the study at World Water Week, in Stockholm, Sweden, the IWMI said it is used more commonly for growing vegetables and cereals, especially rice. Read More Source : http://www.edie.net/news/news_story.asp?id=15183&c   Aug 28, 2008 How Much Food Do Humans Waste? Try Half But since we’re not here to obscure reality as an excuse to make everyone feel better, here’s the truth: According to a new report by the Stockholm International Water Institute, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, and the International Water Management Institute, about half of all the food produced worldwide goes to waste. The report states that the amount of food we produce is more than enough to feed the world’s population, but between our inefficient (or nonexistent) distribution systems and our ridiculous practice of tossing out perfectly good food, a big chunk of humanity goes hungry while another eats itself into an epidemic. Read More Source : http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/realitybase/2008   Aug 28, 2008 Economic costs of poor sanitation and Asia Day at World Water Week The event saw the launch of a number of new and groundbreaking studies, reports and initiatives designed to improve a global situation where billions of people are without sustainable access to safe drinking water or suffering ill health due to poor sanitation. Last week, the feature article in CSR Asia Weekly (Vol.4 Week 34) focussed on 'Water scarcity and food security', a 53 city study on waste water by International Water Management Institute (IWMI). This week will look at sanitation and its economic costs and the first Asia Day at World Water Week. Read More Source : http://csr-asia.com/weekly_detail.php?id=11462   Aug 25, 2008 Water and Sanitation Looms Behind Food, Energy and Climate Crisis Concludes World Water Week SIWI, the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) released the report, "Saving Water: From Field to Fork - Curbing Losses and Wastage in the Food Chain." Read More Source : http://www.newsdesk.se/pressroom/stockholm_interna   Aug 25, 2008 Global Water Experts Urge Governments To Halve Food Waste By 2025 To Fight Famine, Save Water Organizations at [World Water Week, a meeting of 2,500 scientists, politicians and officials from 140 countries who met to discuss global water issues] in Sweden said policy makers and businesses have to drastically improve harvesting methods on farms and minimize waste in food processing. Consumers also must be made aware of the implications of food waste, which consumes large amounts of water that could otherwise be beneficially used in a world that faces water shortages, a report said. 'As much as half of the water used to grow food globally may be lost or wasted,' said David Molden, director of research at the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) . …" Read More Source : http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,d   Aug 25, 2008 Half of All Food Produced Worldwide is Wasted The brief authored by the Stockholm International Water Institute, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, and the International Water Management Institute shows that the current food crisis is less a crisis of production than a crisis of waste. Tossing food away is like leaving the tap running, the authors say. "More than enough food is produced to feed a healthy global population. Distribution and access to food is a problem - many are hungry, while at the same time many overeat," the brief states. But, it says, "we are providing food to take care of not only our necessary consumption but also our wasteful habits." Read More Source : http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/aug2008/2008-08-22   Aug 25, 2008 DEVELOPMENT: Food, Fuel and Water Crises Colin Chartres, director general of the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) said the causes of water scarcity are essentially identical to those of the food crisis. "There are serious and extremely worrying factors that indicate that water supplies are close to exhaustion in some countries," he said. Read More Source : http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=43641   Aug 25, 2008 Water experts urge major cuts in food waste "As much as half of the water used to grow food globally may be lost or wasted," said David Molden, director of research at the International Water Management Institute. The report was unveiled at World Water Week, a meeting of 2,500 scientists, politicians and officials from 140 countries who met to discuss global water issues. The United Nations has named 2008 the International Year of Sanitation. Read More Source : http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D92MO   Aug 25, 2008 Human Waste Used by 200 Million Farmers, Study Says "There is a large potential for wastewater agriculture to both help and hurt great numbers of urban consumers," said Liqa Raschid-Sally, who led the study published by the Sri Lanka-based International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and released this week at the World Water Week conference in Stockholm, Sweden. Read More Source : http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/08/08   Aug 25, 2008 Tossed Food Is Also Lost Water The report, "Saving Water: From Field to Fork — Curbing Losses and Wastage in the Food Chain," was issued on Thursday by the Stockholm International Water Institute, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, and the International Water Management Institute (report pdf here). It outlines ways that governments could halve the amount of food lost between field and plate by 2025. The amounts of waste are staggering. In the United States, nearly one-third of the food that is produced each year, worth about $48 billion, is discarded. The water it took to grow and process that wasted food amounts to about 10 trillion gallons, according to the analysis. Many European countries have similar losses, proportional to their size. Read More Source : http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/22/tosse   Aug 25, 2008 DEVELOPMENT: Wasted Food Is Also Wasted Water "That's like leaving the tap running and pouring 40 trillion litres of water into the garbage can -- enough water to meet the household needs of 500 million people," says the report co-authored by SIWI, along with the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in Rome and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) in Sri Lanka. The study also says that wasted food is wasted water because of the large quantum of water that goes into the cultivation and processing of food. Read More Source : http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=43632   Aug 25, 2008 Water Prize Award: Reducing food waste can improve water balance SIWI, along with the UN food agency FAO and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) compared discarded food to leaving the tap running in a joint report 'Saving Water: From Field to Fork - Curbing Losses and Wastage in the Food Chain'. 'As much as half of the water used to grow food globally may be lost or wasted,' IWMI researcher Charlotte de Fraiture said. Some 1.2 billion people were estimated to live in regions where demand for water is greater than supply. The pressure is increasing over demand for agricultural products like beef and bioenergy that are water intensive. Read More Source : http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/news   Aug 25, 2008 Sewage could be vital to feeding the world These predictions come in a report by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) based in Sri Lanka, which is backed by the World Bank. The most detailed of its type, it is based on a survey of 53 cities in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America. Charles Chartres, director of the IWMI, warned this week that the proportion of food grown using waste water is bound to ... Read More Source : http://environment.newscientist.com/article/mg1992   Aug 25, 2008 Untreated wastewater used in agriculture The 53-city International Water Management Institute survey showed 80 percent of those cities regularly use untreated or partially treated waste water for urban agriculture. Officials said the practice is often critical to farmers' incomes and urban food security but raises health concerns. "Irrigating with wastewater isn't a rare practice limited to a few of the poorest countries," said IWMI researcher Liqa Raschid-Sally, lead author of a report on the survey. "It's a widespread phenomenon, occurring on (49 million acres) across the developing world …" Read More Source : http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2008/08/21/Untreat   Aug 21, 2008 Of Sludge and Salad: Wastewater Greens the World's Gardens In a survey of 53 cities worldwide, the International Water Management Institute (IMWI), a water research and advocacy group, has found that the vast majority of produce cultivated in urban plots is irrigated with what amounts to tainted water, fetched from polluted streams and lakes or wells. True, only a fraction (say 10 percent) of global agricultural output is harvested in the cities, and only a part of that crop is consumed uncooked. Yet in these cities alone, some 1.1 million farmers produce vegetables and fruit for 4.5 million people. Projecting the numbers worldwide, no fewer than 200 million farmers rely on recycled water to sow 20 million hectares, an area twice the size of Hungary. The findings were released during World Water Week, a summit of sages and policy types gathered in Stockholm through Aug. 23 in an effort to rethink the way the world farms and flushes. Read More Source : http://www.blog.newsweek.com/blogs/ov/archive/2008   Aug 21, 2008 Global Talk: Water, Energy & Food in Stockholm Thought for Food -- "Water-Related Synergies and Trade-offs - Food and Bioenergy" and "Improve Food Security - Combine Productive Sanitation, Conservation Agriculture and Water Harvesting" discussed a report from the International Water Management Institute and "'eco-sanitation' to create synergies in agricultural production that can enable us to feed more people and improve the sanitation situation." Read More Source : http://ww.pennnet.com/display_article/337276/41/AR   Aug 21, 2008 World Water Week Kicks Off In Stockholm Reuters writes that a study released by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) on Monday said "cities in developing countries around the world are using untreated or partially treated wastewater for agriculture, posing serious health risks to urban consumers. … The study looked at 53 cities in Latin America, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. [The report …] found 80 percent were using untreated or partially treated wastewater. 'In over 70 percent of the cities studied, more than half of urban agricultural land is irrigated with wastewater that is either raw or diluted in streams,' the institute said. At the same time, the IWMI noted that wastewater agriculture contributes to urban food supplies and helps provide a livelihood for the urban poor. Read More Source : http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,d   Aug 21, 2008 Wastewater irrigation is better than you think NORMALLY, news about the environment can be pigeonholed into one of two categories: a big one, labelled "Bad" and a smaller one, with a heading along the lines of "Encouraging" or at least "Not Quite as Bad as You Thought". But your correspondent has no idea where to file a report on the use of wastewater in agriculture released this week by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), a research centre. Read More Source : http://www.economist.com/world/international/displ   Aug 21, 2008 Study shows wastewater used for agriculture Washington (PTI): As developing countries confront the first global food crisis since the 1970s as well as unprecedented water scarcity, a new 53-city survey, including Bangalore and Chennai, conducted by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) indicates that most of those studied are using untreated or partially treated wastewater for agriculture. In over 70 per cent of the cities studied, more than half of urban agricultural land is irrigated with wastewater that is either raw or diluted in streams with wide ranging implications. Read More Source : http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/0002008081809   Aug 19, 2008 World Water Crisis Underlies World Food Crisis As developing countries confront the first global food crisis since the 1970s as well as unprecedented water scarcity, a new 53 city survey presented at the conference by the International Water Management Institute indicates that 80 percent of those studied are using untreated or partially treated wastewater for agriculture. In over 70 percent of the cities studied, more than half of urban agricultural land is irrigated with wastewater that is either raw or diluted in streams. Read More Source : http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/aug2008/2008-08-18   Aug 19, 2008 Sustainable agriculture gets Irish Aid CGIAR, which was established to achieve sustainable food security and reduce poverty in developing countries through scientific research, has noted that parallel to the food shortage and price rises is a water crisis. Colin Chartres, the International Water Management Institute's director general said the reasons for water scarcity "are much the same as those that account for the food price crisis". Read More Source : http://www.edie.net/news/news_story.asp?id=15147&c   Aug 19, 2008 Global survey: Wastewater extensively used in agriculture WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- A new 53-city survey conducted by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) indicates that most cities are using untreated or partially treated wastewater for agriculture. Wastewater use is critical to farmers' incomes and urban food security but raises health concerns, IWMI said in a statement released on Monday. In over 70 percent of the cities studied, more than half of urban agricultural land is irrigated with wastewater that is either raw or diluted in streams. Read More Source : http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-08/19/conte   Aug 19, 2008 Top scientist calls use of biofuels 'frightening' The International Water Management Institute, which published the findings, said that more than half of farmland near 70 percent of cities in Third World countries is watered with sewage that threatens to spread epidemics. An increasing demand for water and food has spurred the use of sewage to water crops but in many cases is the only form of irrigation for farmers who lack clean water, the study showed. It is mostly used to produce vegetables and cereals, and poses a major health risk to consumers of uncooked vegetables. Read More Source : http://www.iht.com/bin/printfriendly.php?id=154004   Aug 19, 2008 Sewage use on crops sparks push for tougher controls A global food shortage and unprecedented water scarcity have driven an increase in the use of partially treated or untreated waste water to irrigate crops, according to the International Water Management Institute report released yesterday at a world water conference in Sweden. IWMU researcher Liqa Raschid-Sally said waste water was used mainly to grow vegetables and cereals such as rice, and posed major health risks to consumers of uncooked vegetables. Read More Source : http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=146&   Aug 19, 2008 Global study shows widespread sewage use on farms STOCKHOLM, Sweden: People in developing countries are facing growing health risks caused by the widespread use of raw sewage to irrigate crops, according to a study unveiled Monday at a global water conference in Sweden. The report, by the International Water Management Institute, says more than half of farmland near 70 percent of cities in Third World countries is watered with sewage that threatens to spread epidemics. Read More Source : http://www.iht.com/   Aug 18, 2008 Waste as a Resource The Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) together with the Global Water Partnership (GWP) and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) will convene a full day workshop in Stockholm on Tuesday 19 August on "Waste as a Resource". Read More Source : http://www.iwmi.org/   Aug 18, 2008 Scores of cities using untreated wastewater, study says STOCKHOLM - Cities in developing countries around the world are using untreated or partially treated wastewater for agriculture, posing serious health risks to urban consumers, a study released on Monday said. "Irrigating with wastewater isn't a rare practice limited to a few of the poorest countries," said researcher Liqa Raschid-Sally, a researcher for the International Water Management Institute (IWMI). "It's a widespread phenomenon, occurring on 20 million hectares (50 million acres) across the developing world, especially in Asian countries, like China, India and Vietnam, but also around nearly every city of sub-Saharan Africa and in many Latin American cities as well." Read More Source : http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/   Aug 18, 2008 Millions eating food grown with polluted water, says UN report At least 200 million people around the world risk their health daily by eating food grown using untreated waste water, some of which may be contaminated with heavy metals and raw sewage, according to major study of 53 world cities. Urban farmers in 80% of the cities surveyed were found to be using untreated waste water, but the study said they also provided vital food for burgeoning cities at a time of unprecedented water scarcity and the worst food crisis in 30 years. Read More Source : http://www.guardian.co.uk/   Aug 18, 2008 Winner of Stockholm Water Prize criticizes biofuels and urges vegetarianism The winner of the Stockholm Water Prize criticized the growing use of biofuels Monday and urged people to eat less meat to help cut the amount of water used in food production. British professor John Anthony Allan said the effect of the growing use of biofuels "is too frightening to even begin to realize." Allan, 71, of King's College, London, was awarded the 2008 water prize for his concept of "virtual water," which measures the amount of water used in industrial and food production. He said meat consumption was bad for the environment. "Non-vegetarians consume five cubic meters (176 cubic feet) of water per day; your bath is a tiny puddle compared to that. It is the water for food that is the big problem," Allan told The Associated Press. "Be rational and eat less meat." Read More Source : http://www.iht.com/   Aug 18, 2008 Sanitation and waste water use on World Water Week agenda Stockholm - Lack of access to sanitation remains a major impediment to global development while claiming hundreds of lives daily, experts agreed Monday as the annual World Water Week opened Monday. Dutch Crown Prince Willem-Alexander one of the dignataries at the meeting, that said despite progress to build latrines and improve sanitation around the world 'there is still a long way to go' and underlined the need to break taboos about sanitation. Asia and Latin America had experienced 'remarkable progress' in terms of better sanitation, he said in his opening remarks. Willem-Alexander noted improvements in Africa although 'the increase cannot keep pace with population growth. More people means more waste. It's that simple,' he said in his opening remarks. Read More Source : http://www.monstersandcritics.com/   Aug 18, 2008 Wastewater fears for urban farms Urgent action is needed to remove pollutants from urban wastewater, which is often used in cities to grow food, an international study has warned. Data collected by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) found that 85% of cities discharged the water without any appropriate treatment. With many developing nations swiftly urbanising, the authors said people were at increasing risk of disease. Read More Source : http://news.bbc.co.uk/   Aug 11, 2008 Punjab facing major irrigation and drainage challenges This was stated by Senior Minister Punjab/ Minister for Irrigation & Power, Raja Riaz Ahmad while delivering his key-note address at the inaugurating session of the workshop on "Assessing the impact of physical and management interventions on irrigation system performance in Punjab", organized by International Water Management Institute (IWMI) in collaboration with Punjab Irrigation & Power Department here Mondat. Riaz Ahmad Khan Advisor Ministry of Water and Power, Abdul Hakeem Khan Head IWMI Pakistan, Dr. Charlotte de Fraiture Senior Researcher IWMI Colombo, Chief Engineers and senior officers of the Irrigation Department also attended the workshop. Read More Source : http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-d   Aug 11, 2008 Traditional forms of agriculture: Unexpected degree of diversity, time-honored principles The research carried out was conducted with contributions from researchers from CIRAD, the CNRS, the Indonesian Institute of Sciences, the Center for International Forestry Research (Indonesia), the Institut français d'études andines (Peru), the International Water Management Institute (Ghana), the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul and from the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi (Brazil) Read More Source : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-08/idr   Aug 11, 2008 India's Rains Leave Central Bankers Guessing: Andy Mukherjee "After 200 years of canal building, less than 15 percent of Indian farmlands benefit from canal irrigation," says Tushaar Shah, a principal scientist at the International Water Management Institute in Battaramulla, Sri Lanka. India can lessen the risk to the economy from monsoon failures by thinking small. A simple but effective strategy will be to provide incentives to farmers to recharge their wells, which they have traditionally used to pull water out of the ground, though not to put moisture back into the aquifer. Read More Source : http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&re   Aug 03, 2008 CPWF Vacancy : Science Director The CPWF wishes to appoint a Science Director to provide leadership in the design and implementation of all scientific research conducted by the CPWF. This includes identifying directions in which the scientific research agenda must advance, given evolution in and progress along impact pathways and related planning and management tools. This position reports directly to the CPWF Program Director. The successful candidate will be based at the CPWF Secretariat, located at the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Colombo, Sri Lanka. Read More Source : http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/   Aug 03, 2008 CPWF Vacancy : Impact Director The CPWF wishes to appoint an Impact Director to provide leadership in the design and implementation of all CPWF activities relating to generating and evaluating outcomes and impacts. This position reports directly to the CPWF Program Director. The successful candidate will be based at the CPWF Secretariat, located at the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Colombo, Sri Lanka. Read More Source : http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/   Aug 03, 2008 IWMI Vacancy : Economist-Impact Assessment We require a highly competent and motivated individual for the position of Economist-Impact Assessment. The successful candidate will be based in IWMI's headquarters in Colombo and will report to the Leader of IWMI's Water and Society Theme. The work of the selected individual will form a core component of IWMI's Water and Society Theme and will have two primary objectives: 1) to assess the impact of technologies, institutions, and reforms on, among other variables, water management and poverty alleviation to inform future policy and 2) to assess the impact of IWMI's own research projects and programs to ensure that they meet the needs of stakeholders and partners and to inform future priority setting processes. In addition to carrying out individual ex-ante and ex-post impact assessment studies, the work will also involve fostering a strong impact assessment culture throughout the Institute and establishing strategic partnerships with universities, other CGIAR centers, and the CGIAR's Standing Panel on Impact Assessment. Read More Source : http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/   Jul 31, 2008 IWMI Working Paper 121 posted as South Asia Featured Research on www.gdnet.org The paper deals with environmental and social values of river water. Although many decisions on water allocation in river basins are made on economic grounds but environmental and social benefits of water should also be considered in river basin management. The objective of the study is to evaluate the costs and benefits of environmental water allocations, referred to as 'environmental flows' (EF). The Menik Ganga (River) in southern Sri Lanka has been used as a case study in order to draw these conclusions. The components of EF evaluated include the requirements of the religious festival, the requirements of the Yala National Park, the requirements of the Pilinnawa Coastal Wetland and the requirements of the Yala Fishery Management Area, off the coast. The analysis shows that it is important to develop economic dimension of environmental flows, if water allocation decision making process is to be strengthened, if the information base for such decisions is to be improved and if the risk of incurring untenable future costs and unnecessary expenditure is to be avoided. Read More Source : http://www.gdnet.org/   Jul 31, 2008 In a world of waste, be thankful for the excess A report to the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development links this waste in Western countries to problems in feeding the world's poor and needy. The report, from Stockholm International Water Institute, the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN and the International Water Management Institute, says "tremendous" quantities of food are discarded in processing, transport, supermarkets and people's kitchens. It urges governments to halve the waste by 2025. Read More Source : http://www.businessday.co.nz/   Jul 24, 2008 Colorado Water Examiner John is a Denver native, who graduated from Metropolitan State College and attended the University of Montana Graduate School of Business. He works for the city of Denver, Department of Public Works, Wastewater Management Division. John is an avid hiker, backpacker and -- in the days before a knee replacement and hip replacement Read More Source : http://www.examiner.com/x-395-Colorado-Water-Exami   Jul 17, 2008 IWMI Vacancy : Water Economist We require a highly competent and motivated individual for the position of Water Economist. The successful candidate will be based in any of IWMI's 12 offices in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa and will report to the Leader, Water and Society Theme. A key water governance issue in many developing countries is that water continues to be considered a free good even as scarcity increases. The role of price and economic incentives as resource allocation mechanisms remains marginal in the water economies of most developing countries, as does detailed analysis of economic impacts of water policies and interventions and their political possibilities and limitations. As part of its 2009-2012 strategic plan, IWMI plans to aggressively bring debate on economic instruments for water management to the center-stage of national and regional discussions on improved water governance. Read More Source : http://www.iwmi.org/   Jul 17, 2008 IWMI Vacancy : Water Resources Planner We require a highly competent and motivated individual for the position of "Water Resources Planner" to carry out research addressing issues associated with water resource development and allocation in developing and emerging economies. The successful applicant will be based in Laos, Sri Lanka or Pakistan and will report to the Leader of our Water Availability and Access theme. Duties and Responsibilities: The appointee will be responsible for conducting research to improve integrated water resources planning and management in key basins in South, Central and South East Asia. The goal of the research is to provide useful recommendations to enhance the performance of key water institutions. The scientist is expected to design and carry out research, and to communicate policy- relevant results. To fill the role, we seek an outstanding individual with experience in water resources planning who can provide a leadership in IWMI's efforts to improve integrated water resources management in developing and emerging economies. Read More... http://hr4u.iwmi.org/recruitment/Attachments%5C_2008-Water%20Resources%20Planner.doc Read More Source : http://www.iwmi.org/   Jul 17, 2008 IWMI Vacancy : Irrigation Specialist IWMI requires a highly competent and motivated individual for the position of 'Irrigation Specialist' to spearhead its work on "revitalizing irrigation", to assist in tackling the world's food and water crises. The successful applicant will be based in Pakistan, Central Asia or Sri Lanka and will report to the Leader of our Productive Water Use theme. The performance of irrigation is stagnating and declining in a number of systems across Asia, and irrigation performance has been disappointingly low in sub-Saharan Africa. But irrigation will continue to be called on to deliver agricultural production, better livelihood support, and do so in a manner that causes less environmental degradation. And it will be called on to do so with less water, as competition from cities and the environment increases. Root causes of under performance are inappropriate policies and institutions governing irrigation and poor maintenance and operation of irrigation facilities. Read More Source : http://www.iwmi.org/   Jul 15, 2008 Water : The Forgotten Crisis - By Dr. Colin Chartres, Director General, IWMI This year, the world and, in particular, developing countries and the poor have been hit by both food and energy crises. As a consequence, prices for many staple foods have risen by up to 100%. Read More Source : http://www.iwmi.org   Jul 16, 2008 Invest in water for farming, or the world will go hungry A few years ago, my organisation, the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), demonstrated that many countries are facing severe water scarcity, either because insufficient fresh water is available or because they lack investment in water infrastructure, such as dams and reservoirs. What makes matters worse is that this scarcity predominantly affects developing countries where the majority of the world's 840 million under-nourished people live. Serious and extremely worrying evidence indicates that water supplies are steadily being used up. And the causes of water scarcity are much the same as those of the food crisis: demand exceeds a finite supply. Read More Source : http://www.environmental-expert.com/resultEachPres   Jul 13, 2008 Global push to reduce food wasted The report, from Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN (FAO) and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) says that "tremendous" quantities of food are discarded in processing, transport, supermarkets and people's kitchens. "This wasted food is also wasted water," it continues. "In the US, for instance, as much as 30% of food, worth some US$48.3 billion, is thrown away each year. That's like leaving the tap running and pouring 40 trillion litres of water into the garbage can - enough water to meet the household needs of 500 million people. Through international trade, savings in one country might benefit communities in other parts of the world." Read More Source : http://www.foodweek.com.au/main-features-page.aspx   Jul 13, 2008 Water: The forgotten crisis A few years ago, IWMI (the International Water Management Institute) demonstrated that many countries are facing severe water scarcity, either as a result of a lack of available fresh water, or due to a lack of investment in water infrastructure such as dams and reservoirs. What makes matters worse is that this scarcity predominantly affects developing countries where the majority of the world's under-nourished people-- approximately 840 million -- live. Read More Source : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-07/iwm   Jul 08, 2008 Rs. 11.3b ADP for irrigation, power Deptt: Raja Riaz This was stated by Senior Minister Punjab/ Minister for Irrigation & Power, Raja Riaz Ahmad while delivering his key-note address at the inaugurating session of the workshop on Assessing the impact of physical and management interventions on irrigation system performance in Punjab, organized by International Water Management Institute (IWMI) in collaboration with Punjab Irrigation & Power Department. Riaz Ahmad Khan Advisor Ministry of Water and Power, Abdul Hakeem Khan Head IWMI Pakistan, Dr. Charlotte de Fraiture Senior Researcher IWMI Colombo, Chief Engineers and senior officers of the Irrigation Department also attended the workshop. Read More Source : http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20N   Jul 07, 2008 Plan to update Punjab’s archaic irrigation system This was stated by Senior Punjab Minister Raja Riaz Ahmad while opening a workshop in Lahore on Monday, organized by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) in collaboration with the Provincial Irrigation and Power Department. The topic was ‘Assessing the impact of physical and management interventions on irrigation system performance in Punjab’, according to a handout. Read More Source : http://www.app.com.pk/en_/index.php?option=com_con   Jul 06, 2008 Workshop on irrigation system today The workshop is being organised by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) in collaboration with the Punjab Irrigation and Power Department. Senior Minister Raja Riaz Ahmad will be the chief guest. IWMI Senior Researcher Dr Charlotte de Fraiture, Ministry of Water and Power Advisor Riaz Ahmad Khan, IWMI Country Head Abdul Hakeem Khan and chief engineers and farming community representatives will also attend the workshop. Read More Source : http://thepost.com.pk/CityNewsT.aspx?dtlid=170813&   Jul 02, 2008 New Asia-Pacific Network Launched To Tackle Water Problems At the launch, Ravi Narayanan, Vice Chair of the forum’s Governing Council, introduced the 12 founding members of KnowledgeHubs. They are PUB WaterHub, Singapore; International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management, Japan; National Hydraulic Research Institute of Malaysia; Center for River Basin Organizations and Management, Indonesia; Korea Water Resources Corporation, the Republic of Korea; Center for Hydroinformatics in River Basins at the Yellow River Conservancy Commission, the People’s Republic of China; Institute of Water Policy at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore; International Water Management Institute, Sri Lanka; Central Asia IWRM Resource Center, Uzbekistan; Pacific IWRM Resource Centre, the Fiji Islands; International Research and Training Center on Erosion and Sedimentation, the People’s Republic of China; and the International WaterCentre, Australia. Read More Source : http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/news_room/pdf/25_NR_Know   Jun 30, 2008 Energy Recovery Rides Clean Water Wave The reason why is a classic supply-demand quandary: The amount of fresh water remains constant at 3% of all water on Earth. But according to the United Nations Population Fund, global consumption will double every two decades. So in 13 years, the International Water Management Institute estimates, one-third of the world's population will face a severe water shortage. Read More Source : http://www.thestreet.com/s/energy-recovery-rides-c   Jun 30, 2008 Suffer the Environment at Your Cost! In the midst of rising food prices and scarcity, the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization, the Stockholm International Water Institute and the International Water Management Institute have expressed their grave concern about the wastage of food. For instance, these organizations, in a report titled “Saving water : from field to fork – curbing losses and wastage in the food chain”, say that in the US alone, about 30% of produced food, worth about 48.3 billion USD is wasted every year. According to them, water falls in the category of food and already 1.2 billion people live in areas where they do not have sufficient water to meet their needs. The above organizations have launched an initiative on May 14, 2008, at the 16th session of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development to achieve at least 50% reduction in food waste. Read More Source : http://www.kanglaonline.com/index.php?template=ksh   Jun 29, 2008 Uganda: Thousands Homeless As Termites Turn Nakasongola Into a Desert It is working in collaboration with the International Livestock Research Institute and the International Water Management Institute. In 2006, Mugerwa, a student doing his Master's degree, conducted an experiment under the supervision of Dr. Mpairwe. He fenced off part of Lubega's degraded farm and planted pasture seeds (re-seeding). Read More Source : http://allafrica.com/stories/200806260054.html   Jun 29, 2008 New Asia-Pacific network launched to tackle water problems At the launch, Ravi Narayanan, Vice Chair of the forum’s Governing Council, introduced the 12 founding members of KnowledgeHubs. They are PUB WaterHub, Singapore; International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management, Japan; National Hydraulic Research Institute of Malaysia; Center for River Basin Organizations and Management, Indonesia; Korea Water Resources Corporation, the Republic of Korea; Center for Hydroinformatics in River Basins at the Yellow River Conservancy Commission, the People’s Republic of China; Institute of Water Policy at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore; International Water Management Institute, Sri Lanka; Central Asia IWRM Resource Center, Uzbekistan; Pacific IWRM Resource Centre, the Fiji Islands; International Research and Training Center on Erosion and Sedimentation, the People’s Republic of China; and the International WaterCentre, Australia. Read More Source : http://www.environmental-expert.com/resultEachPres   Jun 19, 2008 Food and water crises inextricably linked The Australian Director General of the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Dr Colin Chartres, said it was very likely that current water shortages are the result of climate change. He said they were "a window into the future" when water scarcity and resulting food insecurity will be the norm for many countries unless action was taken now to overcome them. Read More Source : http://sl.farmonline.com.au/news/nationalrural/agr   Jun 19, 2008 Cotton Still King in Uzbekistan Despite a Legacy of Salt Far less money is spent now on maintaining the vast networks of water drainage and irrigation that crisscross the country than was expended under communism. The authorities spend about $12 a hectare on maintenance, down from $120 a hectare in Soviet times, according to the International Water Management Institute. Blocked drainage pipes push salt levels up, damaging the land and dragging crop yields ever lower. Read More Source : http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1434215/cotto   Jun 19, 2008 Old Farming Habits Leave Uzbekistan a Legacy of Salt Far less money is spent now on maintaining the vast networks of water drainage and irrigation that crisscross the country than was expended under Communism. Authorities spend about $12 per hectare on maintenance (a hectare is around two and a half acres), down from $120 per hectare in Soviet times, according to the International Water Management Institute. Blocked drainage pipes push salt levels up, damaging the land and dragging crop yields ever lower. Read More Source : http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/15/world/asia/15uzb   Jun 13, 2008 Water Scarcity: The Real Food Crisis With river water fully used, Indian farmers have been trying to increase supplies by tapping underground reserves. In the last 15 years, they have bought a staggering 20 million Yamaha pumps to suck water from beneath their fields. Tushaar Shah, director of the International Water Management Institute's groundwater research station in Gujarat, estimates those farmers are pumping annually to the surface 100 cubic kilometers more water than the monsoon rains replace. Water tables are plunging, and in many places water supplies are giving out. Read More Source : http://www.garoweonline.com/artman2/publish/World_   Jun 05, 2008 Challenges in changing Colorado State University These improvements in water management as a concept violate current legal, institutional, and professional understanding, but time has come for change. Even the International Water Management Institute teaches the world the error that the improved water management is bad water management. The Institute should be professionally ostracized and then disbanded for such a serious error. The ongoing research in the Arkansas Valley is directed with the emphases from earlier experiences of improving irrigated agriculture. A number of disciplines are involved in the effort, but perhaps they did not want to be a part of a program that ignored the importance of such an effort. Read More Source : http://www.coloradoan.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AI   Jun 02, 2008 Press Release : Cemagref and IWMI Sign Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for Collaborative Research in Water Management On the 19th May 2008, Pascal Vine, Director General of Cemagref and Colin Chartres, Director General of the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in Antony, France, with the intention of developing a medium term collaborative research program in water management. Cemagraf and IWMI, who have been in partnership since 1992, hope to pursue this collaboration in a range of research topics covering selected areas of water management from irrigation systems to hydrographic basins. The memorandum of understanding spells out the collaboration between the two organizations which will involve joint research projects, exchange of personnel, sharing of scientific and technical knowledge, training etc. Read More Source : http://www.iwmi.org/   Jun 01, 2008 Desert dwellers must learn to conserve water According to estimates from the International Water Management Institute, one-third of the world population will be affected by water scarcity by 2025. What does this mean for us in the desert? Well for starters, one of the places listed that suffers from growing water scarcity is the Colorado River basin, and a good portion of the water we use comes from the Colorado River. However, issues of water scarcity are not necessarily a result of insufficient water sources, but instead it is because of the choices people make of how they use their water. Read More Source : http://www.mydesert.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=   May 25, 2008 Report says conserve water through food efficiency As food prices escalate and water scarcity extends worldwide, the best solution to both issues would be a global reduction in wasted food, a new international report says. Inefficient harvesting, transportation, storage, and packaging ruin 50 percent of food, according to the report, which was released last week by the Stockholm International Water Institute, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, and the International Water Management Institute. Add up how much food consumers simply throw away, especially in developed nations, and a whole lot of water is being wasted as well. Read More Source : http://www.environmental-expert.com/resultEachPres   May 25, 2008 Food Security Requires New Approach to Water Jointly authored by the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), in collaboration with the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), the 26-page study points out that water will be a key constraint to food production -- "unless we change the way we think and act about water resources." Anders Berntell of SIWI points out that food production and agriculture were the biggest global users of water. On average, about 70 percent of all water extracted was going into agriculture. Read More Source : http://www.asiantribune.com/?q=node/11364   May 25, 2008 Today's food crisis isn't a blip Nearly one-sixth of the population of China and India are fed using amounts of water that can't be sustained. Some nations have even resorted to importing grain and soybeans rather than grow it themselves to save water. But this stopgap approach can't help hold off inevitable shortages: According to the International Water Management Institute, future farmers will need 17% more water than the world now has available. Just as nations compete for oil, China's move into foreign farms suggests competition for water isn't far off, either. Read More Source : http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2008/05/todays-food   May 23, 2008 Fat is an environmental issue Meanwhile, a report released 14 May by the Stockholm International Water Institute bemoans the amount of fresh water squandered when people throw away food. The institute points out that in the US, as much as 30% of food is wasted, worth $48.3 billion each year. "That's like leaving the tap running and pouring 40 trillion litres of water into the garbage can – enough water to meet the household needs of 500 million people for a year," says the report, Saving Water: From Field to Fork, jointly launched with the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization and the International Water Management Institute. Read More Source : http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn1391   May 20, 2008 ALARMING REPORT: Staggering food waste places water and land resources in distress As governments struggle with a sudden crisis in the price of food, a companion crisis in availability of water also threatens billions of people. To meet the challenge of feeding growing populations and the global hungry, massive reductions in the amount of food wasted after production are needed. The Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) will call on governments to reduce by half, by 2025, the amount of food that is wasted after it is grown. The report “Saving Water: From Field to Fork – Curbing Losses and Wastage in the Food Chain,” will be launched on Wednesday, May 14th 2008 at the 16th Session of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and outlines concrete steps to achieve a 50 percent wasted food reduction. Read More Source : http://www.lifegen.de/newsip/shownews.php4?getnews   May 20, 2008 Continues Review Of Decisions Relating To Water, Sanitation The Commission held an interactive panel discussion in the morning as part of its review of the decisions taken at its thirteenth session on water and sanitation and the interlinkages between them. Commission Vice-Chairperson Tri Tharyat ( Indonesia) presided over the discussion, which featured panellists Margaret Catley-Carlson, former Chair of the Global Water Partnership; Mike Muller, Consultant, South Africa; David Molden, Deputy Director-General, International Water Management Institute; and Daniel Zimmer, World Water Council. Read More Source : http://7thspace.com/headlines/281062/experts_warn_   May 21, 2008 Press Trust Of India In the US, for instance, as much as 30 per cent of food, worth USD 48.3 billion approximately, is thrown away each year, the report prepared by the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) estimates. And while it elaborates on the food wastage, the report goes on to stress that wasted food implies wasted water, another major concern. That implies, if US wastes thirty per cent of food, it's like leaving a "tap running and pouring 40 trillion litres of water into the garbage can - enough water to meet the household needs of 500 million people", the report says. Read More Source : http://www.ptinews.com/pti%5Cptisite.nsf/0/1C9A1D2   May 21, 2008 Earth Negotiations Bulletin Margaret Catley-Carlson (UNSGAB) said IWRM requires a series of changes in the development model, including institutional change, priority setting, protection of the interests of the poor and women, and reforms and investments on the ground. Mike Muller (South Africa) pointed out that there is no global water crisis, except challenges at local levels, and emphasized IWRM. David Molden (International Water Management Institute) noted that water is available globally, but lack of access to water is the constraint for food production, and highlighted the need for IWRM, institutional reform and a change of consumption patterns. Daniel Zimmer (World Water Council), on behalf of Loïc Fauchon, World Water Council President, proposed: viewing water as a development tool; involving policy makers on water issues as water sharing is political; and supporting international cooperation at the city level. Read More Source : http://www.iisd.ca/vol05/enb05262e.html   May 05, 2008 Biofuel threatens China, India water supply Researchers with the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) warn that China and India's plans to greatly increase domestic production of biofuels, will put at risk their water supplies. This will seriously undermine the two countries' ability to meet future food and feed demands. The study was conducted by the CGIAR-supported International Water Management Institute (IWMI) in Sri Lanka. In many areas where water is already scarce, biofuel production could threaten river and groundwater systems. Charlotte de Fraiture, an IWMI scientist and lead author of the biofuels study says, "Biofuel production in China and India raises special concerns, because the crops to be used for biofuels-maize in China and sugarcane in India-would rely mainly on irrigation." Read More Source : http://nqr.farmonline.com.au/   Apr 29, 2008 Interview with Dr. David Molden aired on Mexican Radio Dr. David Molden, Deputy Director General of IWMI talks about water scarcity, water productivity and irrigation practices. Read More Source : http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/News_Room/Multimedia/cov   Apr 21, 2008 The Lesson of The Water Cycle. And don't make hay while the sun shines! I understand that 'More crop per drop' is a decade-old concept of the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), one of th