An ongoing international webinar series titled ‘Reimagining Groundwater Governance with a special emphasis on India’ is taking place every Tuesday from July 20, 2021, to August 10, 2021. The webinar series is organized by the Advanced Center for Water Resources Development and Management (ACWADAM), a not-for-profit knowledge and partnership organization…
Groundwater over-abstraction and degradation threaten the sustainable economic and social development of communities around the world. This happens in the face of progressive competition for water and climate variability and, in particular, in arid and semiarid regions. In order to contribute to the growing debate on water governance, a recent…
The Observatorio del Agua of the Botin Foundation organised a seminar entitled Seminario sobre los Desafíos de la Gestión y Gobernanza de las Aguas Subterráneas y Presentación del Libro “Advances in Groundwater Governance” (Seminar on the Challenges of Groundwater Management and Governance, and Presentation of the book “Advances in Groundwater…
Numerous GRIPP partners took part in the writing and editing of a groundbreaking book on groundwater governance. Published by CRC Taylor & Francis this year, the book addresses some of the biggest questions that water managers are facing around the world, and provides evidence-based and state-of-the-art solutions for governance of…
By Dr Elena Lopez-Gunn (ICATALIST and part of the OECD Water Governance Initiative) Facts of the OECD Water Governance Group and Initiative The OECD Water Governance Initiative (WGI) was established as a follow-up to the agreements made related to the ‘Good Governance’ theme at the 6th World Water Forum in Marseille,…
A three-year USAID-funded project on ‘Groundwater Governance in the Arab Region: Taking Stock and Addressing the Challenges’ implemented by IWMI and national partners across the Middle East-Northern Africa region investigated just that. Highlighted in a synthesis piece on the WLE Thrive Blog are five wicked problems that prevent the MENA…
