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The land-water nexus

Online, 22. März 2024

On the occasion of World Water Day 2024, the Bonn Water Network and its members including the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), the German Institute for Development and Sustainability (IDOS), the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the Global Water Operators' Partnerships Alliance…

Corruption in the water sector

Online, 18. Januar 2022

Corruption hampers the achievement of SDG 6 for ensuring water and sanitation for all. In fact, corruption is estimated to be responsible for “losses” of 10% of the investments going into the capital intensive water sector and in some countries reaching as high as 40% to 50% (WIN, 2020). This in turn leads to higher costs for drinking…

Restoring the Zayandeh Rud River: addressing the political causes of water shortage in Iran

Yousefi, Ali / Christian Knieper / Claudia Pahl-Wostl (2020)
Briefing Paper 19/2020

Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)

It’s about water!

Online, 07. Oktober 2021

Climate change impacts cities in manifold ways and often affects water resources: floods and other natural hazards damage urban infrastructure, drinking water quality can deteriorate, and pressure on surrounding water-based ecosystems can increase. The Bonn Water Network (BWN) invites you to its session at the Daring Cities Conference…

River basin management and fiscal decentralisation: mutually supportive or counterproductive? A case study of Mongolia

Dombrowsky, Ines / Ariunaa Lkhagvadorj / Mirja Schoderer (2018)
Discussion Paper 10/2018

Does decentralization benefit river basin management or does it create competition among subnational administrations and river basin organizations in Mongolia? An assessment of the responsibilities and the financial resources available to entities charged with river basin management provides answers.

Accelerate the Scaling up of effective peer-to-peer partnerships between Water Operators Worldwide

Online, 19. Oktober 2021

The 4th Global WOPs Congress is around the corner! From 18 to 29 October, the #WOPsCongress will feature more than 30 sessions and spaces to spur exchange, learning, and collaboration on topics relevant to water and sanitation operators across the globe and inspire actions on pressing matters such as climate adaptation in the water and…

When policy meets reality: political dynamics and the practice of integration in water resources management reform

Mollinga, Peter P. / Anjali Bhat / Subramanian, Saravanan (eds.) (2010)
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Toward Urban Water Security: What works, when and why?

Online, 25. Mai 2022

Cities are organic, highly divided (socially, economically, politically) social spaces. These divisions manifest spatially, and ensuring the ‘right to the city’ is a difficult task. Evidence suggests that macro-approaches such as Integrated Water Resources Management or Integrated Urban Water Management are difficult to implement. Yet,…

Irrigation water management in Uzbekistan: analyzing the capacity of households to improve water use profitability

Saravanan, V.S. / Mehmood Ul-Hassan / Benjamin Schraven (2015)
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Grabbing water? Large-scale investments in agriculture and perspectives for regulation

Bonn, 21. November 2012

Large-scale investments in agriculture have provoked heated debates in the past years - but effects on water resources are often neglected in this context. This Water Lecture sought to answer the question if such investments provoke "water grabbing" and discussed the perspectives for regulation and sustainable agriculture. Discussants:…

Current challenges in Central Asian water governance and their implications for research, higher education, and science-policy interaction

Abdullaev, Iskandar / Aliya Assubayeva / Ihtiyor Bobojonov / Nodir Djanibekov / Ines Dombrowsky / [...] / Elke Herrfahrdt-Pähle et al. (2025)
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Adapting Governance and Infrastructure for Water Resilience

Bonn, 23. Mai 2023

Climate change causes an increase in extreme weather events in many countries of the world. This has drastic impacts for instance on food security, infrastructure and health, and challenges the very basis of human development. Many countries are experiencing such challenges for a long time, but events such as the 2021 floods in Germany’s…

Impacts of concrete lining of irrigation canals on availability of water for domestic use in southern Sri Lanka

Meijer, Karen / Eline Boelee / Denie Augustijn / Irna van der Molen (2006)
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A systems approach to unravel complex water management institutions

Subramanian, Saravanan (2008)
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Boundary management and the discursive sphere: negotiating ‘realities’ in Khorezm, Uzbekistan

Hornidge, Anna-Katharina / Lisa Oberkircher / Anisiya Kudryavtseva (2013)
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A game changer for UN 2023 Water Conference: Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform for Water Sustainability (ISPWAS)

Varady, Robert G. / Annabelle Houdret / Wouter Buytaert / Anil Mishra / Abou Amani / Anik Bhaduri / Olcay Unver (2023)
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Wasser-Governance

Special "Wasser-Governance": Wissenschaftler*innen des IDOS analysieren Wasser-Governance-Probleme, wie Zugang zu, Nutzung und Management von Wasserressourcen gestaltet werden können.

Strengthening coordination in river basin governance in southern Spain: cooperation, incentives and persuasion

Schütze, Nora / Andreas Thiel / Pilar Paneque / Jesús Vargas / Rodrigo Vidaurre (2020)
Briefing Paper 18/2020

The Guadalquivir basin in Spain struggles with reducing agricultural water consumption to comply with water quantity provisions of the European Water Framework Directive. Improved cross-sectoral exchange, transparency, monitoring and revision of water rights are needed to address this challenge.

Global Change, Water and Health in Fast Growing Economies

Subramanian, Saravanan / Peter P. Mollinga / Janos J. Bogardi (2011)
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The Mongolian legal framework for water policy

Rodriguez de Francisco, Jean Carlo / Ines Dombrowsky / Ariunaa Lkhagvadorj (2018)
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