The UNEP-DHI Centre is supporting the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in its efforts to curb plastic pollution by developing digital solutions to estimate plastic pollution in rivers and freshwater ecosystems, as well as in facilitating data sharing on plastics across organisations and nations.
The SDG Water Quality Hub streamlines the reporting process for SDG indicator 6.3.2, providing real-time feedback and insight into submissions, as well as information on available support.
Global Hydrological Models (GHMs) have emerged as a crucial tool to analyze complex, large-scale hydrological systems and predict the availability, distribution, and movement of water resources across the world.
Riparian countries worked together with UNEP towards improving the scientific understanding of the hydrological regimes and ecosystem services of the Omo-Turkana and D’aua-Juba-Shabelle basins, creating tools for decision support of sustainable management of the transboundary water resources.
The GPML risk and warning system for macroplastic litter in rivers provides insights on the problem of plastic litter in freshwater ecosystems. The system can help identify and map where the problem is, how it may change in the upcoming 9 months, where it originates, and how best to intervene.
The Match! Water Solutions Portal is a free tool designed as a partnering site between water managers with challenges and water technology solutions providers.
Providing drought stakeholders with easy access to resources to support action on drought preparedness with the aim to boost the resilience of people and ecosystems.
Aqua Republica – a serious game that enables learning about sustainable water resource management through a game environment. It combines scientific models with game mechanics to develop an online virtual world for water management.
This TWAP River Basins indicator data portal (2016) covers all of the world’s 286 transboundary river basins. It allows users to view results of around 15 key indicators and sub-indicators.
The IWRM Data Portal contains global data on the status of implementation of integrated water resources management (IWRM) in countries. It allows users to view country reports on indicator 6.5.1.
The Freshwater Ecosystems Explorer provides accurate, up-to-date, high-resolution geospatial data depicting the extent freshwater ecosystems change over time.
The Cascade online platform is an operational prototype system bringing together the latest data and information to track changes to water bodies and raise an alert where societies can be affected by their decline in health.
UNEP DHI Partnership – Centre on Water and Environment
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