Everyone a Hydrodiplomat
15/04/11 11:26
I was in South Africa, just a few weeks ago in late March. A branch of the UN had organized a small conference in honor of World Water Day. I had never been to South Africa, and the crowd seemed blended between hyper-traveling water people like myself and African-centered groups. The meeting was almost intimate compared to most of the big water conferences I attend. I knew a lot of the people there, the crowds were small, and you could have quiet, unrushed conversations over coffee and easy dinners in the cool evenings.
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Guest blog: Local solutions for global water challenges
12/04/11 14:34
Peter G. McCornick
Director of Water, Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy at Duke University
We already know that the combined effects of a number of major drivers, including climate change, are causing varied, somewhat unpredictable, and increasingly severe effects on water resources. While efforts to determine the specific impacts of climate change on the local hydrological conditions need to continue, prudent decision makers are already incorporating these additional uncertainties into their planning processes, and considering how to secure and sustain water resources for the population, production systems and the environment.
Amazon 2010-11 drought: detectable from space
08/04/11 10:54
In the image: red and orange identify areas where satellite measurements indicated reduced greenness of the Amazon forest during the 2010 drought. (Green patches are areas of enhanced greenness.) The maps differ only in the method used for determining vegetation greenness from optical data.
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