Transboundary Aquifers Commission special meeting at the 46th IAH Congress in Malaga and call for new Commission

At the end of the term of the International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH) Commission on Transboundary Aquifers (IAH-TBA), a special meeting on the ‘Future of Transboundary Aquifers: Research, Management, and Policy Directions’ was convened on September 22, 2019, in Malaga, Spain, as a pre-conference event to the 46th IAH Congress…

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Climate change adaptation and groundwater

Latest edition of the Strategic Overview Series of the International Association of Hydrogeologists Accelerated global warming, resulting primarily from human overdependence on fossil fuels, is a major environmental concern of our times. Even if it can be rapidly curtailed, climate change is widely predicted to have major impacts on water…

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Friends of Groundwater participate in the 2nd Global Workshop of the World Water Quality Alliance

Groundwater quality is an important component of overall freshwater quality worldwide. The quality affects the lives and livelihoods of the majority of people globally. High-quality groundwater is important for drinking water supplies, irrigation and industrial processes. Ecosystems and the environment, in general, also depend on an adequate quality of groundwater.…

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Stocktaking and strategizing on transboundary aquifer work

Most recent (2015) global map of transboundary aquifers (Credit: IGRAC and UNESCO-IHP)

Invitation for pre-conference workshop at 46th IAH International Congress, Malaga, Spain International work on transboundary aquifers is reaching a noteworthy nominal 20-year anniversary. Around the turn of this century, the Internationally Shared Aquifer Resources Management (ISARM) programme set out to elucidate the prevalence and facts of transboundary aquifers globally. These…

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Special issue on transboundary aquifers puts the worlds’ shared aquifers in focus

The Journal of Hydrology’s special issue on the International Shared Aquifer Resources Assessment and Management summarizes key findings from 15 years of transboundary aquifer (TBA) management across Africa, America, Asia and Europe. It highlights that management of transboundary aquifers in fragmented ways may affect sustainable development within and beyond a country’s borders, and that this requires an integrated…

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IAH: 2017 News at a Glance

The International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH), a key Core Partner in the GRIPP Platform, recorded a number of achievements in 2017 that overall helps advance the GRIPP Mission. At the end of 2017, its membership once again exceeded 4100, with members in 133 countries and 46 national chapters. IAH has…

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Dr. Kerstin Danert (Skat Foundation) awarded the 2017 IAH Distinguished Associate Award

Dr. Kerstin Danert of the Skat Foundation, a GRIPP partner, was recently given the 2017 International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH) Distinguished Associate Award. The award was granted for her outstanding contribution to the understanding, development, management and protection of groundwater resources internationally. Profiled this month in the International Association of Hydrogeologists,…

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