This note describes key challenges and solutions to managing invasive aquatic plants, focusing on the Yamoussoukro lakes in Côte d’Ivoire.
World Water Week 2023 is focused on innovation at a time of unprecedented challenges. The theme Seeds of Change: Innovative Solutions for a Water-Wise World invites us to rethink how we manage water.
Read this Q&A session with Susan Gardner, Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Ecosystems Division, who talks about the perils facing freshwater resources, how to restore them, the importance of tracking water-related environmental data, and how UNEP is taking forward the outcomes of the UN 2023 Water Conference.
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.
The latest installment of the UN World Water Development Report was released at the UN Water Conference in New York earlier this week. Two UNEP-DHI partnerships are highlighted as examples of how to promote progress in data and information availability.
UNEP is active at the UN 2023 Water Conference and together with the Government of Indonesia, they have organized a side event with a theme “From UNEA to General Assembly: Taking action for Sustainable Lake Management – as a catalyst to accelerate global commitment in the Water Action Agenda.”
The 2023 UN Water Conference is a landmark conference on fresh water taking place at UN Headquarters in New York, 22-24 March 2023, co-hosted by the Government of Tajikistan and the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is expected to focus on the rising toll of the climate crisis and the effort to provide clean drinking water to a global population of over 8 billion.
The UNEP-DHI Centre is currently conducting a capacity needs assessment for decision making and evidence-based policy advisory in six African Union member states. The study aims to determine the systemic and institutional capacity for reporting water sector progress through WASSMO across the continent.
UNEP Freshwater Unit is recruiting an Associate Programme Management Officer to join the implementation of the International Climate Initiative (IKI) Congo project. Deadline for applications is April 10th 2023.
UNEP’s Freshwater Ecosystem Unit is looking to recruit a UNV to carry out environmental monitoring and reporting in the water space. Deadline for applications: Wednesday 14th December 2022.
Water science and policy development go hand in hand. But how exactly can data support decision-making for transboundary waters? What types of data are critical to designing and implementing policies? And what happens when data is patchy, biased, or missing?
Lake Turkana and its river basins are vital for the people, economies and wildlife of both Kenya and Ethiopia. Given the region’s historic vulnerability to drought, it was a surprise to many when devastating floods hit lakeside settlements in 2020. However, a recent study by the UNEP-DHI indicates that such floods may become a more regular occurrence in years to come…
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