Water

In a recent statement, Mohammed Audu-Bida, director of NEMA, Nigeria, advised stakeholders to engage the media and community leaders on potentials hazards posed by climate change by activating early warning and forecasts to reduce the impact of disasters...

The main objective of this training material is to build the capacity of water managers and others to develop strategies for coping with hydro-climatic disasters such as floods and drought within the context of water resources management. An added

The World Bank hA approved a US$10 million loan to support the Peruvian Government in its Water Resources Management Modernization project aimed at improving the management of water resources in Peru through a participatory, sustainable, multisector and basin-scale approach...

About 5,000 new automatic weather stations are set to be deployed across Africa, under a climate change initiative announced today by the United Nations World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the Global Humanitarian Forum, the Earth Institute at Columbia University, and mobile telecommunications companies Ericsson and Zain...

WMO and UNDP collaborate to reduce disaster risk throughout South-East Europe: A new project, supported by the European Commission, seeks to enhance risk assessment and early warning systems for weather and climate extremes...

Durante la presentación mundial dela Tercera Conferencia Mundial sobre el Clima, la OMM en sus comunicados oficiales destacó ampliamente el intenso trabajo del Gobierno de Colombia, por medio del proyecto Piloto de Adaptación Nacional...

A report by Erik Olsson of the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies regarding disaster management and risk reduction projects on Siargao Island in the Philippines...

Henry David Venema, IISD's Director of Sustainable Natural Resources Management and Water Innovation Centre looks at what lessons Manitoba's 2009 Red River flood offers and discusses how building resilience to future floods requires that we make a