IWSN researchers contribute to new book on ecological restoration

By: Bimo Nkhata on 31st May 2016

IWSN researchers Bimo Nkhata and Charles Breen have contributed a chapter to the newly-published book Ecological Restoration: Global Challenges, Social Aspects and Environmental Benefits (edited by Victor R. Squires). The book aims to fill some of the information gaps in... Read more »

The drought – crisis or opportunity?

By: Duncan Hay on 27th May 2016

A few weeks ago an article appeared in The Geographer entitled ‘Water Security, Economic Growth and Sustainable Development: linking society, economy and environment.’ The article challenges mainstream approaches to the development, use and management of water resources. Before we... Read more »

IWSN Africa co-hosts Southern African drought seminar

By: Linda Downsborough on 23rd May 2016

Southern Africa is currently facing one of the worst drought periods of recent times. Increased temperatures and decreased rainfall are playing havoc in the agricultural sectors of many Southern African nations, creating food and water security issues for millions... Read more »

Resilience in the face of India’s recurring droughts

By: Mark Everard on 19th May 2016

Over the course of the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a sequence of droughts have resulted in tens of millions of deaths across India. These devastating droughts will recur – indeed are happening today – and will be ever... Read more »

New video on ecosystem services and biodiversity

By: Mark Everard on 12th May 2016

In support of the EU Science for Environmental Policy project led by UWE’s Science Communication Unit (SCU), Dr Mark Everard was asked to serve as science adviser to the European Commission’s IN-DEPTH REPORT, Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity (May 2015,... Read more »

IWSN funds four more MPhil students in South Africa

on 9th May 2016

In 2015, Monash South Africa recruited four Master of Philosophy students whose tuition has been paid by the International Water Security Network (IWSN). Here, they talk about their course in Integrated Water Management (IWM), their previous studies and their... Read more »

After the race to the bottom: water supply challenges in the Ica Valley, Peru

By: Rossi Taboada and Rafael Routson de Grenade on 3rd May 2016

“¡Dense cuenta que estamos regresando a lo mismo, a las haciendas!” (Realise that we are heading back towards the same (situation), the haciendas!) Neighbour in Pachacutec District (27 April 2015) Provision of drinking water is currently recognised as a... Read more »