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Water governance and water resource management strategies to mitigate the risk of floods and drought and improve water conservation and water quality.

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Fixing Central Africa's water and power challenges starts with restoring nature

In conflict-affected Bukavu, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, nature-based solutions are reducing flooding, protecting hydropower dams and creating green jobs, providing lessons for rapidly urbanizing cities across sub-Saharan Africa.

World Resources Institute
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Anticipating and monitoring water risks for agriculture

This paper examines water risks for agriculture and outlines a typology of tools to support public authorities in anticipating, monitoring and assessing these risks.

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
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NASA satellites reveal aquifer decline in Brazilian breadbasket

A collaboration of scientists from NASA and Brazilian research institutions has produced a detailed picture of groundwater change across Brazil.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
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Can green infrastructure also protect foundations?

Dutch cities are increasingly facing foundation problems as a result of low groundwater levels, shrinking clay soils and land subsidence. Climate change is exacerbating these effects.

Deltares
Aerial drone photo showing severe drought conditions affecting corn crop fields with a farmer inspecting the crops.
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How might a ‘Super El Niño’ affect food, forests and water?

World Resources Institute asked four experts how this year’s El Niño may differ from past events.

World Resources Institute
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Practical tools for tackling climate change

As part of the NCCS-Impacts research programme, a research team led by the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) is developing new tools to better assess risks and adapt planning.

Swiss Federal Research Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL)
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In Bihar, groundwater treatment units were installed in regions that didn’t need them

Arsenic-contaminated groundwater affects more than 230 million people living in 108 countries. About 180 million of these people live in the Indian subcontinent (which includes Bangladesh, Nepal, and Pakistan, in addition to India) and Southeast Asia.

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Mozambique launches digital platform to improve irrigation monitoring

Designed to assess and diagnose irrigation systems, the platform provides water managers actionable data to boost performance and agriculture sustainability.

International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
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