Meet the UWE MSc students on an IWSN scholarship

on 22nd Dec 2014

The International Water Security Network has awarded part-funded scholarships to eight students studying the MSc in Environmental Management (Water) at the University of the West of England. Here, seven of those students discuss their studies and their ambitions: Daniele... Read more »

Bhuwan Thapa awarded CLIMAS Fellowship

on 15th Dec 2014

Bhuwan Thapa, a PhD student in the School of Geography and Development, and a graduate research associate at the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy, both at the University of Arizona, has been awarded a Climate & Society... Read more »

The need to invest in institutions to secure water in the Northern Cape

By: Bimo Nkhata on 11th Dec 2014

I recently participated in a rapid assessment exercise that was designed to provide information on the water security challenges of the Northern Cape Province in South Africa. This information was required by some water users in the province to... Read more »

The Peruvian Andes: Notes from an extreme gradient – Pilpichaca

By: Rafael Routson de Grenade on 8th Dec 2014

Part Three: Pilpichaca, 4,000 metres above sea level. We continued our research at a town located beyond the Ica Basin in a region, which feeds lagoons, whose water is connected by inter-basin transfer to the Tambo and Ica Rivers... Read more »

The Peruvian Andes: Notes from an extreme gradient – Santa Rosa de Tambo

By: Rafael Routson de Grenade on 8th Dec 2014

Part Two: Santa Rosa de Tambo, 3,000 metres above sea level. The Tambo River cuts sharply down the western flank of the Cordillera de los Andes, invisible on most maps, and difficult to access by any road. The name... Read more »

The Peruvian Andes: Notes from an extreme gradient – Ica

By: Rafael Routson de Grenade on 8th Dec 2014

Part One: Ica, 400 metres above sea level. Sunlight streams through the window and across the dusty white church steeple just across the street from us, an abandoned church from the great hacienda era, as I have seen many... Read more »

Watch our animation on fracking and water security

By: Chris Light on 2nd Dec 2014

Our infographic on the process of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and the possible implications for water security is now available to watch here: Read more »

Water security in South Asia’s Himalayan water towers

By: Christopher A. Scott on 2nd Dec 2014

In early November 2014, after the retreat of the monsoon clouds had unveiled the Himalayan peaks in Nepal and to the west, in Uttarakhand state in India, I travelled to South Asia at the invitation of the International Centre... Read more »