Many government officials see wastewater treatment plants as expensive and low cost recovery investments. This is why governments are struggling to meet the wastewater treatment needs of their countries.
Disaster management and flood protection is a prominent theme this year at the 2nd Asia-Pacific Water Summit in Chiang Mai. My main interest here is in disaster management and flood mitigation and there are many concurrent technical sessions under th…
WLE and partners have a strong presence at: “Water in the Anthropocene: Challenges for Science and Governance. Indicators, Thresholds and Uncertainties of the Global Water System“. The conference takes place in Bonn, Germany from May 21-24, 2013 Fo…
A new ecological study of novel human-influenced ecosystems should change the debate about whether farmers should be sharing land with nature or sparing land for nature. Joseph Essissima is a cacao farmer I met in Cameroon about a decade ago. He had ha…
Despite our growing reliance on dams, we still have much to learn about how they work. The degradation of forests and other ecosystems has often being linked to reservoir degradation, which reduces dam performance. Protecting cloud forests could be ke…
