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Online, 23. March 2022

This year's theme for World Water Day is “Groundwater - making the invisible visible”. Although not directly observable with our eyes, groundwater represents the largest share of our global freshwater resources. Especially in many arid and semi-arid areas, where the potential for surface water use has already been exhausted, groundwater…

Water and electricity – weapons in the Syrian conflict

Scheumann, Waltina (2014)
The Current Column, 30. June 2014

It cannot ruled out that Turkey is indeed playing the water card. It did this in the 80s, in the hope that Syria would curtail the activities of the Kurdish PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party).

Metabolized-Water Breeding Diseases in Urban India: Sociospatiality of Water Problems and Health Burden in Ahmedabad City

Subramanian, Saravanan / Dileep Mavalankar / Suhas P. Kulkarni / Sven Nussbaum / Martin Weigelt (2014)
External Publications

Food security in the face of climate change: impossible without water

Herrfahrdt-Pähle, Elke / Waltina Scheumann (2016)
The Current Column, 21. November 2016

The issue of adapting African agriculture to climate change was finally addressed at the 22nd session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 22) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Marrakesh. We can only achieve food security by ensuring that overdue investment is made in irrigation infrastructure and institutions.

Water governance and policies

Pahl-Wostl, Claudia / Ines Dombrowsky / Naho Mirumachi (2021)
External Publications

IWRM in a country under rapid transition: lessons learnt from the Kharaa River Basin, Mongolia

Karthe, Daniel / Sonja Heldt / Annabelle Houdret / Dietrich Borchardt (2015)
External Publications

Water aid and trade contradictions: Dutch aid in the Mozambican waterscape under contemporary capitalism

Büscher, Chris (2021)
External Publications

Stockholm World Water Week 2012: competition for agricultural land – and for water

Scheumann, Waltina / Michael Brüntrup (2012)
The Current Column, 27. August 2012

How groundwater overexploitation relates to social contracts

Houdret, Annabelle / Birgit Kemmerling / Ines Dombrowsky (2022)
The Current Column, 21. March 2022

The overexploitation of groundwater in the MENA region is closely related to social contracts. There is thus a need for a societal debate about water allocation.

The devil is in the detail: administrative and fiscal challenges in implementing River Basin Management in Mongolia

Dombrowsky, Ines / Jean Carlo Rodríguez de Francisco / Mirja Schoderer / Ariunaa Lkhagvadorj (2018)
Briefing Paper 17/2018

River basin organizations are supposed to foster a sustainable use of water resources. However, in developing countries they are often underfunded. This briefing paper identifies administrative and fiscal challenges towards effective river basin management in Mongolia and how they could be overcome.

Applying the concept of fit to water governance reforms in South Africa

Herrfahrdt-Pähle, Elke (2014)
External Publications

A diagnostic approach improves Integrated Water Resource Management

Mit vielfältigen Aktivitäten, leistet das DIE einen Beitrag zu Forschung und Politikberatung über Integriertes Wasserressourcen-Management.

Water-energy-food: do we need a nexus perspective? The Bonn Nexus Conference

Dombrowsky, Ines (2011)
The Current Column, 14. November 2011

How can water sector cooperation support democratic governance? Insights from Morocco

Houdret, Annabelle (2021)
External Publications

Implementing Integrated Water Resource Management

Bonn, 18. August 2015

International Conference Sustainable Development Goals: A Water Perspective - Indicators, Interlinkages and Implementation (17 - 18 August 2015) Panel: Implementing Integrated Water Resource Management In contrast to Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 7 which focused on improved water supply and sanitation, the proposed Sustainable…

World Water Day on Water and Energy: The Nexus and beyond

Bonn, 20. March 2014

At this Water Lecture, a panel of high-level experts from International Organizations, Policy think tanks and the academia discussed the various links between water and energy as well as potential challenges and opportunities of the interface between water and energy at different levels and settings. The emphasis of this panel discussion…

Analysing the dynamics of transitions in residential water consumption in the Netherlands

Agudelo-Vera, Claudia / E. J. M. Blokker / Chris Büscher / J. H. G. Vreeburg (2014)
External Publications

Second International Workshop on Comparative Water Studies

Bonn, 20. January 2012

Besides discussing the state and prospects of comparative water studies, the second international workshop on Comparative Water Studies aimed at advancing research design on four specific topics: The Currencies of Globalisation Water Resources, Power and Regime Change in the MENA Region The Role of New Donors in Dam Development in Asia,…

Governance of natural resources for the common good

Cluster "Governance of natural resources for the common good": Natural resources, ecosystems and biodiversity provide the basis for human existence. On a global scale, we are seeing the rapidly advancing overuse and degradation of natural resources.

Exploring the added-value of the Water-Energy-Food Nexus

Stockholm, 03. September 2014

As part of the "World Water Week" in Stockholm, the German Development Institute (DIE) organized a workshop on the topic "Exploring the added-value of the Water-Energy-Food Nexus".