Monthly Archives: September 2011
Consortium.cgiar.org: Major river basins have enough water to sustainably double food...
"The basin perspective is critical in order to assess the upstream and downstream impacts of water allocation policies, and to determine opportunities for optimizing...
Graphic.com.gh: Forum Calls For National Water Fund To Bridge Gap In...
The General Secretary of Friends of Rivers and Water Bodies, Nana Agyepong Debrah III, was the chairman for the occasion, which was also attended...
Tandfonline.com: Special wastewater edition of Water International
IWMI has partnered with Water International, the journal of the International Water Resources Association, to produce a special edition focusing on wastewater. It...
Call for Papers, Deadline 30th October – Water International special journal...
This Special Issue is inspired by the 2011 meeting of the International Association for the Study of Commons in which issues of the commons...
Wagner.nyu.edu: David Krantz’s Letter from Ghana: Lessons in Global Hunger and...
Across town in the neighborhood of Dzorwulu, Bukari Fuseini, 45, farms the wasteland between an electrical substation and a drainage canal -- land on...
Ghanawaterforum.org: Waste reuse for agric and fishing gaining recognition
Regarding fears about possible contamination and disease spread, Mr Phillip Amoah of the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) office in Ghana said there are...
Reliefweb.int: A Growing World and a Stressed Resource
On average, 2,000-3,000 litres of water each day is needed to produce enough food for an individual says David Molden, Deputy Director General for...
Fastcompany.com: Making Agriculture Preserve Land, Not Destroy It
Examples in sub-Saharan Africa, Peru, and Colombia demonstrate that merely protecting an ecosystem such as wetlands--if that protection displaces agriculture--may undermine both ecosystems and...
Ewwmconference.com: Problems and Solutions for the Management of Water and Wastewater
The European Water and Wastewater Management Conference is one of the few events in the UK that deals specifically with problems and solutions for...
Sunstar.com.ph: Editorial: Ecosystems and food security
In the report from the United Nations Environment Programme and the International Water Management Institute released last month, it discusses how "managing and investing...