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Finding the economic value of irrigation water in the Nile Basin...

A recent study conducted by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) estimated the economic value of irrigation water for major crops in various agricultural systems of the Nile Basin.

Giving water a second life

Launch of a major project on water reuse at Cairo Water Week.

Shedding light on policy options

Toward sustainable solar-powered pumping of groundwater for irrigation

Sustainable development in the Eastern Nile

Investments in land and water are critical

Tending fields by text

Mobile phones and satellite imaging are transforming farming in Sudan.
Farmers cultivating lettuce, while another farmer digs a small canal (marwa) with a donkey, Egypt. Photo: cc: Hamish John Appleby/IWMI

Heads or Tails

How Egyptian farmers are adapting to water scarcity up and down a canal.

IWMI Research Report – 160: Understanding farmers’ adaptation to water scarcity:...

This study was undertaken to analyze farmers’ adaption to water scarcity in the command area of a secondary canal in the Nile Delta of...

Models under the spotlight

Is it time to break the mold?

Modeling river basins is so fashionable it seems that everyone wants in.

Keeping track of liquid assets

‘Water Accounting Plus’ helps policymakers go with the flow

World Development Information Day

Bytes and bottlenecks – can data deliver? Leaps forward in data processing power and access to information are helping make irrigation more efficient and sustainable....