AlertNet has launched a set of stories this week on water scarcity issues around the world, looking at how growing competition for water may reshape the world by 2050 in a variety of fields and in a variety of water basins around the world, from the Ni…
The 7th International Conference on Sustainable Water Resources Management, organized by Wessex Institute of Technology, UK will be held in New Forest, UK from the 21-23 May, 2013. Conference topics include: Water management and planning The right to w…
Several major Indian states- Punjab, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh all provide farmers with free electricity. Unfortunately, these also happen to be the same states that face threatening levels of groundwater depletion. A popular opinion i…
“We can no longer think about solving [resource] issues by tackling one problem at a time,” James Mackie, the European Centre for Development Policy Management. Eighteen million people in the Sahel region face food shortages from a combination of c…
Improvements in rainfed systems have the potential to improve agricultural production, increase water productivity and lift millions of farmers, particularly in Africa, out of poverty. The Rainfed Systems Strategic Research Portfolio (SRP) workshop of …
