January 21, 2016
The full (economic, social and ecological) value of ecosystem services is often ignored or underestimated. As with the intangibly valuable, this is much a case of not appreciating the benefits that ecosystem services bring to our ...
January 20, 2016
The water crisis continues to score high on the World Economic Forum’s global risk assessment. While many business and opinion leaders consider water a less likely risk, it remains one of potential high impact. Combining this wi...
January 8, 2016
Lakes in Malaysia (both natural and artificial systems) provide much of the water that Malaysians drink and use to nourish their land, to grow and produce their food and to generate energy. Some of these lakes and their basins are...
January 6, 2016
The spreading and sharing of ideas, technical innovations and scientific knowledge between geographically distant peoples has been one of the central benefits of globalisation. This diffusion of knowledge has been happening for mi...
December 21, 2015
Moving from Risk to Opportunity Across the world, leaders are consider water to be a risk of high impact and high likelihood, one that will negatively affect global supply chains, regional stability and economic performance. Yet, ...
December 18, 2015
The Paris Agreement reached Saturday calls for major efforts on technology development and transfer for climate mitigation and adaptation. Urban water management can make a significant contribution to both agendas. How?  Water ut...
December 15, 2015
The Paris Agreement reached last Saturday provides an unprecedented opportunity to keep the global temperature rise well below 2 ºC and pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5 ºC. This is a major step forward to a low-carbon economy. ...
December 14, 2015
If Africa’s water, agriculture and energy security were a card game, the stakes would be high.  The continent will have a quarter of the world’s population by 2015 with a demographic boom that will bring 370 million youth to ...
December 11, 2015
For many basins around the world, the impacts of climate change on ecosystems and communities are becoming more and more visible, prompting a strong need to improve capacity and planning around extreme events such as floods and dr...
December 1, 2015
The significance of the UN climate change summit this week in Paris is not (only) about ensuring a high-level, legally binding political commitment to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, and prevent the planet´s average tempe...