Water, Land and Ecosystems - 5.1 Managing water resources variability and rethinking storage

Assessment of Floods and Droughts: Improved Solution for Mitigation and Risk Management in South Asia

mgadeberg — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 12:17:38 +0000

South and Southeast Asia, with 20% of the world’s population and 40%of the world’s poor, is one of the most food insecure regions of the world. It has been estimated that of the total 1 billion food insecure people in the world, 30% live in South Asia. The repeated impact of climatic extremes, such as floods and droughts, can have profound direct and indirect effects on a nation’s economy. Floods and droughts are among the most dangerous and costly of all natural disasters.

The project objective is to foster a better understanding of past droughts/floods (underlying processes, occurrences, incl. frequencies, severities and scales) and in particular to investigate driving factors and characteristics of the most extreme historic events at the sub-continental scale, which will be validated against observed natural hazards at the small scale (case studies); Development of flood inundation modelling and its application in IBFI and UTFI to address flood risk reduction measures; Develop an innovative approach for drought monitoring and prediction at the sub-continental scale using the developed suite of indicators, which will help to increase drought preparedness, and to identify and implement appropriate drought mitigation measures. Establish research network among various partners in the region i.e., to identify and evaluate, in close collaboration with the case Study in selected countries, potential responses for drought /flood risk mitigation.

Finally, how these together support development or implementation of flood and drought related policies and planning; and share knowledge on flood/drought with the general public through a web-based information and discussion platform hosted by the IWMI, and to disseminate knowledge through capacity building programme for selected partners in the region.

Contact Person

Giriraj, Amarnath

Lead Center

International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

Completed

Start/End dateOctober 05, 2016

Research ThemeVariability, Risks and Competing Uses

Cluster

5.1 Managing water resources variability and rethinking storage

Regions

Southern Asia

Countries

Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka

Mitigating major floodwater impacts in Asia: The subsurface solution for damage control and livelihood enhancement

wle_admin — Tue, 07 Jul 2015 21:26:55 +0000

Flooding causes countless billions of dollars damage each year and creates lost opportunities in terms of the enormous volumes of water that cannot be economically captured with conventional engineering-based approaches. How to simultaneously reduce or solve the flooding problems of low-lying cities and towns and enhance groundwater resources for dry season irrigation upland? The aim of this proposed project is to explore and trial a novel form of Managed Aquifer Recharge that involves the capture and store of ‘surplus’ wet season flows that are in excess of anthropogenic and environmental requirements through the establishment of distributed recharge structures in upstream areas to protect urban infrastructure downstream and enable localized productive use of the stored floodwater for water security and livelihood enhancement (referred to herein as ‘Underground Taming of Floods for Irrigation’ or UTFI). The potential benefits associated with UTFI are large if it can be technically and economically verified given the large investments in flood mitigation measures needed in the most vulnerable urban centers. The research is currently focused largely on the Ganges basin with some work in China and SEA as well at present. UTFI differs markedly from the WLE supported GAMES project which is also working in the Ganges basin on similar problems. UTFI is a supply-based augmentation approach whereas GAMES is largely demand-based. They are suited to different parts of the landscape (within a given basin) and thus cannot be colocated. Where it makes sense the two projects have and will continue to work together to provide value-adding. CCAFS funding has been awarded in 2015 to support UTFI work. This is focusing on field piloting activities in India and a scoping assessment in Bangladesh. This is differentiated from the WLE support which focuses more theoretical analysis supported by detailed stakeholder engagement. This project is also therefore also significant as a working example and test case for the WLE-Phase 2 “docking station” concept - whereby the two CRPs seek to work together and need to get the logistics right to do so.

Contact Person

Pavelic, Paul (p.pavelic@cgiar.org)

Lead Center

International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

Partners

Government of India, The Energy Research Institute, India Council of Agricultural Research, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, University of Dhaka, Livelihoods and Natural Resource Management Institute

Completed

Start/End dateAugust 01, 2012 — December 01, 2018

Research ThemeVariability, Risks and Competing Uses

Cluster

5.1 Managing water resources variability and rethinking storage

Regions

Southern Asia

Countries

Bangladesh, India

Sustainable Groundwater in Africa

wle_admin — Tue, 07 Jul 2015 21:26:55 +0000

The Project pursues a coherent research agenda on groundwater (GW) development and management in Sun-Saharan Africa (SSA) that incorporates ecosystem based approach (through development of ecosystem focused thresholds of GW use and Ecosystem-focused GW governance models). It applies current best-available understanding from around the globe, while catering for the particular challenges and needs presented by the SSA case and variation thereof across the region. The project builds on and expands work conducted during 2012-2014, including that from a Rockefeller Foundation funded, pan-Africa study, and WLE support. The project also aims to formulate and implement stable flow of bilateral funds to enhance this work in SSA. For 2015, one activity will relate to publishing of a book with CRC Press/Balkema, Taylor & Francis Group on ‘Global Advances in Groundwater Management and Governance - Embracing the Linkages for Sustainable Benefits’, which will take a broad, essentially global, view of advances in groundwater management and governance. Focus will be on the management and governance aspects and on advances in knowledge on topics that are pressing due to drivers of change (climate change, population growth, food insecurity, etc.). It will draft in recent experience from a world-wide project on Groundwater Governance, and its components of regional assessments and thematic papers. It will also address issues of conjunctive management of GW and SW, to raise the conventional paradigm of segmented management to a purposefully integrated approach, building on present knowledge and experience. Secondly, the project will provide a bridge to the initiation of Ramotswa transboundary aquifer (TBA) project (TB funded by USAID in 2015) and initiate its implementation. The Ramotswa study intends to build the necessary institutional capacity and technical and socio-economic knowledge of this TBA between South Africa and Botswana in order to enable this aquifer to play a significant but informed role in overall water security, drought resilience and transboundary cooperation on shared water resources. It is anticipated to become a signature project under the USAID Global Development Lab, and will be implemented through an ongoing USAID Project RESILIM. Thirdly, the GW -Africa project will further develop and document the work on GW and ecosystem services (ESS). The intension is to use an ESS and resilience framework of ESS&R – to ensure sustainable utilization of GW, for agriculture and other uses. The vehicle for that will be awareness raising material internally within WLE (a Framework Document-FD) as well as externally (to be determined later, but could be a derivative and targeted adaptation of the FD). The FD will be conceptualized and sketched out at the WLE Workshop in Nov 2014. It will subsequently be further consulted and consolidated with stakeholders before being released as a 5-10 pages briefing note. Also, research related to the bearing capacity of aquifers and associated ESSs will be further explored. The first step will be to consolidate and publish a peer-reviewed journal paper on the work already completed for the South African Water Research Commission (WRC) - in 2014. This work has devised and tested a novel approach for assessing the upper limits for GW use at catchments scale through the quantitative assessment of base flows, recession flows and environmental instream flow requirements for rivers.

Contact Person

Villholth, Karen (k.villholth@cgiar.org)

Lead Center

International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

Partners

Department of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries, Dept. of Water Affairs, North-West Uiversity, Univ. of Botswana, XRI - Exploration Resources International, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Addis Ababa University, Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique, United States Agency for International Development, UNIVERSITE ABDOU MOUMOUNI DE NIAMEY, International Groundwater Resources Assessment Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, Southern African Developent COmmunity, Limpopo Watercourse Commission, Univ. of Free State

Completed

Start/End dateJanuary 01, 2012 — December 01, 2016

Research ThemeVariability, Risks and Competing Uses

Cluster

5.1 Managing water resources variability and rethinking storage

Regions

Southern Africa

Gangetic Aquifer Management for Environmental and Social outcomes (GAMES)

wle_admin — Tue, 07 Jul 2015 21:26:55 +0000

The Ganges basin has abundance of surface water and groundwater resources. Yet, inadequate access to water is a major impediment for sustainable intensification and productivity increases in agriculture in the basin. Hydrology of the basin is highly seasonal, and most of monsoon-generated surface flow is unused, while water stresses during non-rainy period are mounting. Topography, demographic pressures and environmental concerns limit prospects for surface storage in the Basin – to buffer this water variability to improve supply: it is estimated that it may be possible to store only about 15% of the huge annual runoff - in surface storages. Therefore, creating additional sub-surface storage (SSS) may be seen as one alternative solution for storage in densely populated and poverty rampant Basin. SSS provides many eco-systems services (ESS) and benefits. It buffers water variability and provides water that may be used to sustainably intensify and improve productivity in agriculture, domestic and industrial sectors. At the same time, SSS eliminates numerous social and environmental cost associated with large surface storage development. In addition, the regulating ecosystem service of SSS can help alleviate impacts of floods and droughts, including on women and children that are the hardest hit by such water extremes. The scale at which pumping and recharge interventions (number and locations) require in the basin to mitigate floods and droughts, and to address the perceived threat to river flows due to increased pumping need special care. A detail groundwater and surface water modelling shall show how and where to increase pumping gradually to alleviate these crucial ESS related questions. The concepts of “Ganges Water Machine” coined 40 years ago and “Distributed Pumping and Recharge” can increase the capacity of SSS, by additional pumping of groundwater – out of the aquifers - before the monsoon. This “preparatory” pumping can provide additional water for agriculture for Rabi (winter, Oct-Apr) and summer (Mar-Jun) season crops, and for other sectors. Subsequent recharge through monsoon runoff should replenish the aquifers, thus ensuring sustainability of the enhanced benefits. The concept is therefore about “accelerating” natural groundwater- surface water interactions, to capture some of additional monsoon waters underground, by enhancing groundwater use; pumping-irrigation-recharge-pumping is the proposed accelerated cycle, and the associated ecosystem services that are enhanced are productivity and flood control. Over the last 4 decades the Ganges Water Machine was partially operational. The distributed groundwater pumping with surface water development and few recharge interventions were operational in many regions. However, the groundwater recharge and the resilience of the groundwater system, and sustainability of the benefits, and flood mitigating aspects were not given due consideration. Given the limiting potential of surface water storage, increasing water demand of different sectors and deteriorating conditions of the river flows, this partial operation of the machine needs change. For resilient ecosystems services and sustainable benefits, the full machine of appropriate level of "pump-recharge-pump" has to be in place. The full concept will benefit most areas in the basin, where irrigation intensity at present is as low as 125-130%, through intensification of irrigation in Rabi and Summer periods. The challenge is to understand how to pump groundwater without any negative impacts on the riverine environment and water quality and how to recharge with monsoon floods. Given the increasing water scarcity in the Basin in non-monsoon months, the SSS can contribute also to environmental flows, if captured monsoon runoff underground is then gradually released into rivers and streams during post-monsoon time. The project conducts a rigorous techno-socio-economic feasibility study and provides a technical plan for selected Ramganga sub-basin of the Ganges. The ex-ante techno-socio-economic feasibility report would be a valuable output to facilitate the dialogue with policy makers for piloting and upscaling such interventions in the Ganges. The high-level dialogues, and policy briefs to increase knowledge, change attitude and influence policy and operational activities of the major organizations such as Central Groundwater Board (CGWB) and National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG). It also aims to influence rural development programs like CSIR-800 - of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research – by providing rural development technologies (i.e. SSS enhancement) to some 800 million poor people through established “technology villages”. The GAMES and the WLE funded "UTFI" project complements each other through modeling activities. But they are different in concept and approach in many angles. The UTFI try to capture extreme floods in the existing underground storage by recharging through diversions to existing or additional surface storage's. The GAMES try to create additional SSS to capture recurrent floods by accelerating surface water groundwater interactions. While large scale implementation of UTFI may require land acquisition and cost and benefit sharing mechanisms between upstream and downstream users in the basin, the GAMES has no such issues to tackle.

Contact Person

Upali Amarasinghe (u.amarasinghe@cgiar.org)

Lead Center

International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

Partners

National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, India, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research- National Geophysical Research Institute, Central Groundwater Board, National Mission for Clean Ganga

Completed

Start/End dateJanuary 01, 2014 — December 01, 2015

Research ThemeVariability, Risks and Competing Uses

Cluster

5.1 Managing water resources variability and rethinking storage

Regions

Southern Asia

Countries

India

Environmentally Sustainable Water Storage Management and Operation in Sri Lanka

wle_admin — Tue, 07 Jul 2015 21:26:55 +0000

Sri Lanka’s mean annual rainfall (MAR) ranges from over 5000 mm in the wettest regions to under 900 mm in the driest regions. Although it appears at first glance that Sri Lanka is well endowed with water resources (since even the driest parts of the country receives significantly high MAR), the management of these resources is of primary importance to the country due to the seasonal nature of its reception, observed changes in spatial and temporal patterns of precipitation and the uncertainty associated with future projections. Storage of water is widely regarded as a form of insurance against such climate variability. Sri Lanka has multiple options for water storage ranging from groundwater and large dams to a unique ancient tank system which has evolved and sustained through the centuries. However what is unclear is the optimum storage development plan (which would include an optimal storage combination in different regions/ basins) that is needed to ensure sustainable management of the country’s water resources and successful mitigation of floods and droughts under current and future climate variability. Another unresolved issue is the non-existence of guidelines to allocate environmental flows/releases (a flow regime designed to maintain a river in some agreed ecological condition) to sustain aquatic ecosystems, while developing water resources for human use. At the same time, inaccessibility of real time climate data and lack of coordination in data sharing among different water sector agencies also affects water management decision making, especially reservoir operations. The study aims to fill the above gaps by (a) attempting to identify the optimum, environmentally sensitive, sustainable storage scenarios for the country under current and future climates to cater to both floods and droughts, (b) promoting the use of low cost mobile weather stations for acquiring real time climate data, especially for reservoir operations. The study will be initially focused on two pilot river basins, one entirely in the wet zone (Kalu Ganga) and another entirely in the dry zone (Malwatu Oya), with recommendations for up-scaling to national level.

Contact Person

Eriyagama, Nishadi (n.Eriyagama@cgiar.org)

Lead Center

International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

Partners

Department of Agrarian Services, Ministry of Economic Development, Department of meteorology, Sri Lanka, Department of irrigation, Sri Lanka, Lanka Rainwater Harvesting Forum, Sri Lanka, Coordinating Secretariat for Science Technology and Innovation

Completed

Start/End dateJanuary 01, 2014 — December 01, 2016

Research ThemeVariability, Risks and Competing Uses

Cluster

5.1 Managing water resources variability and rethinking storage

Regions

Southern Asia

Countries

Sri Lanka

Optimizing water resource development for poverty alleviation: combining Green (natural) and Grey (built) infrastructure

wle_admin — Tue, 07 Jul 2015 21:26:55 +0000

The project has two primary aims: • Green and Grey infrastructure: to determine whether explicit inclusion of natural infrastructure would result in smarter water resources planning. This is done through 1. Evaluation of all natural and built infrastructure ; 2. Functional Assessment; 3. Needs Assessment; and 4. Combined water resource and hydroecological modeling. The research is being conducted in the Mekong, Volta, Ganges and Zambezi river basins. The research conducted will contribute to improved conceptual understanding of the role of natural infrastructure in water resource management, moving beyond assumptions, to quantify the real benefits provided and the consequences of considering portfolios of natural and built infrastructure. • Wetlands for people: to support IWMIs work on wetlands: 1. Improved understanding of changes in wetland functions and their impact on ecosystem services, livelihoods and water productivity resulting from agricultural activities in and upstream of wetlands 2. Increased capacity of various stakeholders (development and conservation, local, regional, and international) to understand and manage wetland ecosystems for the benefit of the poor and the environment. Specifically this part of the project supports IWMIs contribution to the Ramsar Convention and activities to fulfil its obligations as an International Organization Partner (IOP) of the convention. This includes funds to enable staff to participate in activities of the Science and Technical Review Panel (STRP) of the convention. The project contributes to WLE flagship 5 – managing resource variability and competing use (MRV) and the activity cluster 5.2 Resource allocation and sharing of benefits for all.

Contact Person

McCartney, Matthew (m.mccartner@cgiar.org)

Lead Center

International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

Partners

University of New England, School of Environmental and Rural Science, Africa Wetlands Forum, South Asia Forum for Environment

Completed

Start/End dateAugust 01, 2012 — December 01, 2016

Research ThemeVariability, Risks and Competing Uses

Cluster

5.1 Managing water resources variability and rethinking storage

Regions

Global

Countries

Global-level projects

University of Oxford: Water risks and outcomes for food security

wle_admin — Tue, 07 Jul 2015 21:26:55 +0000

As part of the GWP supported Water Security Taskforce, we propose a systematic analysis of water risks and outcomes for food security, to be conducted with the IMPACT model. The “water risks” will be reflected by inter- and intra-annual variability of spatially explicit hydroclimatic series, which drive the biophysical modules of the IMPACT model. Consequences of the hydroclimatic, temporo-spatial variations will be transmitted from biophysical modules to the agricultural economic model, such that the food security outcomes of water risks can be derived. More specifically on the “water risks” scenarios, we will first simulate long-term climatology, such that water demand and supply as well as food production and trade under average climate condition can be established. In a second step, we will identify sequences of drought years for each Food Producing Unit (FPU) and each economic region in the IMPACT model from hydroclimatic forcing data, and assess the severity of such drought sequences based on indices, and characteristics of drought occurrences and severity will be statistically quantified. In a third step we will assess food production and trade effects of droughts for the identified drought year sequences in affected FPUs and economic regions, by comparing the outcomes with those under average climate condition for various RCPs. Based on those results and comparisons, we will be able to draw conclusions with respect to the impacts of water risks on food security outcomes. In addition to the assessment of extreme events, several long-term climate change scenarios will be assessed with IMPACT, to identify additional water risks that climate change may impose on managed freshwater systems, and therefore the impacts on food security. Although the impacts of climate change are expected to be more pronounced in the distant future, hydroclimatic risks may be exacerbated by climate change, and thus larger impacts on food security outcomes are likely, in particular under poor weather conditions.

Contact Person

Claudia Ringler (c.ringler@cgiar.org)

Lead Center

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Partners

Oxford University, University of Massachusetts, Global Water Partnership

Completed

Start/End dateMarch 01, 2014 — April 01, 2015

Research ThemeVariability, Risks and Competing Uses

Cluster

5.1 Managing water resources variability and rethinking storage

Regions

Global

Countries

Global-level projects

Theme leader funds and co-financing of bilateral projects

wle_admin — Tue, 07 Jul 2015 21:26:55 +0000

This activity includes time for Claudia Ringler to, among other activities, 1) Participate in management team meetings, and meetings and outreach related to WLE 2) Review annual reports from the MRV flagship as well as workplans for MRV 3) Contribute to the WLE Annual Report 4) Contribute to the WLE phase II proposal 5) Develop a document on how the ESSR framework is reflected in MRV research 6) Ensure that the MRV flagship research directly relates and supports WLE IDOs, SRF IDOs and SRF sub-IDOs, contributing to related documentation and monitoring elements 7) Ensure that the projects in the MRV flagship directly relate to the MRV flagship goals 8) Contribute to WLE blog pieces and the WLE website This activity also includes co-financing for those bilateral or window 3 WLE projects that do not support the IFPRI overhead rate, or only allow for partial overhead of some positions.

Contact Person

Claudia Ringler (c.ringler@cgiar.org)

Lead Center

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Completed

Start/End dateJanuary 01, 2015 — December 01, 2015

Research ThemeVariability, Risks and Competing Uses

Cluster

5.1 Managing water resources variability and rethinking storage

Regions

Global

Countries

Global-level projects

Water Infrastructure Solutions from Ecosystem Services Underpinning Climate Resilient Policies and Programmes (WISE-UP to Climate)

wle_admin — Tue, 07 Jul 2015 21:26:00 +0000

The overall aim is to increase adaptive capacity through recognition and inclusion of ecosystem services provided by natural infrastructure in investment strategies for climate change adaptation and through optimisation with built infrastructure planning and development. Research is being conducted in the Tana River basin in Kenya and the Volta River basin in West Africa to: i) understand how ecosystem services support built infrastructure operations; ii) gain understanding of how ecosystems services are changing because of changes in climate; iii) determine how the data and tools needed to incorporate ecosystem services into water resources development and climate change adaptation can be made available to policy makers and water resource managers.

Contact Person

McCartney, Matthew <m.mccartney@cgiar.org>

Lead Center

International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

Donors

International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

Partners

BC3 - Basque Centre for Climate Change, IUCN - International Union for Conservation of Nature, IWMI - International Water Management Institute, ODI - Overseas Development Institute, WRI - Water Research Institute

Completed

Start/End dateJanuary 01, 2014 — December 31, 2017

Research ThemeVariability, Risks and Competing Uses

Cluster

5.1 Managing water resources variability and rethinking storage

Countries

Kenya

Building Climate Resilience of Watersheds in Mountain Eco-Regions of Nepal: Monitoring the impacts of watershed interventions

wle_admin — Tue, 07 Jul 2015 21:26:00 +0000

Building Climate Resilience of Watersheds in Mountain Eco-Regions (BCRWME) is the first component of Strategic Program for Climate Resilience (SPCR) of Nepal. The ADB provided the Project Preparatory Technical Assistance (PPTA) to develop the BCRWME. The Nordic Development Fund (NDF) funded a parallel grant for Strategic Technical Assistance (TA). The TA is directly associated with, and complementary to, the BCRWME Project, by providing support to strengthen the participatory development processes and reinforce the core activities of the BCRWME. The Department of Soil Conservation and Watershed Management (DSCWM) is the executing agency of the BCRWME project. The NDF financing will comprise of two interrelated packages: (i) NDF Package 1: Advisory and capacity building services; and (ii) NDF Package 2: Watershed Hydrology Impact Monitoring Research. The DSCWM is the executing agency for both the packages, with a Project Director (PD) who will also be heading the Project Management Unit (PMU). The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) leads the NDF – Package 2. The BCRWME project emerged as a result of previous ADB funded work in Nepal where IWMI was directly contracted to identify and prioritize river basins/sub-basins that are significantly vulnerable to CC, followed by an assessment of the impacts of CC and watershed management interventions for “sample” watersheds through the use of hydrological models (Siddiqui, et al, 2012, Gurung, et al, 2013). The BCRWME project sites were mainly based on IWMI’s vulnerability assessment and a part of the watershed intervention planning was also based on IWMI’s modeling work. IWMI also provided advice to introduce watershed management plans that focus on water. Therefore, spring management became a primary element of the project. The main aim of the BCRWME project is to implement watershed development activities that will help increase the reliability and availability of water in hill and mountain watersheds in the Far West of Nepal, under changing climate conditions. The Intervention project worth over 3 mill Euro is funded by Nordic Development Fund (NDF). Possible interventions may include: afforestation of degraded lands, infiltration ponds and small water storage reservoirs, on-farm water conservation. IWMI is to monitor the hydrological impacts of these interventions. This 5-year monitoring and evaluation program will aim to understand the groundwater-surface water system of the two small upland watersheds and specifically - the type and behavior of several point water sources present there (spring as well as stream water collection points ) – that ensure provisioning ecosystem service for local population. The main effort of the project is in the first two years, when the monitoring network is setup and baseline assessments are made. The project will provide a methodology for correct identification and classification of the different types of point water sources, identification of their respective recharge areas and assessment of the impacts of the above watershed management interventions on these water sources.

Publications

Project factsheets

Contact Person

Luna Bharati (l.bharati@cgiar.org)

Lead Center

International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

Partners

Central Bureau of Statistics, Department of Soil Conservation and Watershed Management, Institute of Forestry, Asian Development Bank, Nordic Development Fund

Completed

Start/End dateJanuary 01, 2015 — July 01, 2019

Research ThemeVariability, Risks and Competing Uses

Cluster

5.1 Managing water resources variability and rethinking storage

Regions

Southern Asia

Countries

Nepal

Water, Land and Ecosystems - 5.1 Managing water resources variability and rethinking storage

Assessment of Floods and Droughts: Improved Solution for Mitigation and Risk Management in South Asia

Contact Person

Lead Center

Mitigating major floodwater impacts in Asia: The subsurface solution for damage control and livelihood enhancement

Contact Person

Lead Center

Partners

Sustainable Groundwater in Africa

Contact Person

Lead Center

Partners

Gangetic Aquifer Management for Environmental and Social outcomes (GAMES)

Contact Person

Lead Center

Partners

Environmentally Sustainable Water Storage Management and Operation in Sri Lanka

Contact Person

Lead Center

Partners

Optimizing water resource development for poverty alleviation: combining Green (natural) and Grey (built) infrastructure

Contact Person

Lead Center

Partners

University of Oxford: Water risks and outcomes for food security

Contact Person

Lead Center

Partners

Theme leader funds and co-financing of bilateral projects

Contact Person

Lead Center

Water Infrastructure Solutions from Ecosystem Services Underpinning Climate Resilient Policies and Programmes (WISE-UP to Climate)

Contact Person

Lead Center

Donors

Partners

Building Climate Resilience of Watersheds in Mountain Eco-Regions of Nepal: Monitoring the impacts of watershed interventions

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Project factsheets

Contact Person

Lead Center

Partners

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