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2018 Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water (PSIPW) Nomination Period Open

By Amanda Repella On May 2, 2017 · Add Comment · In Information, Water Diplomacy Updates
The Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water (PSIPW) is an international award focusing on water-related scientific innovation and judged by leading scientists from around the world. Five prizes are bestowed every two years to researchers and research teams for their achievements across the 5 award categories. The awards range in value from US$133,000 [...]
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Issues of Complexity Science and Negotiation Theory (an annotated and evolving bibliography)

By Amanda Repella On September 1, 2015 · Add Comment · In Insights
Water access, demand, usage and management become complex due to the crossing of multiple boundaries: political, social and jurisdictional, as well as physical, ecological and biogeochemical. The complexity of many water issues lie in the interconnections and feedbacks among variables, processes, actors and institutions operating in the knowledge and political communities. Consequently, many water management [...]
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Reframing Water Challenges

By Amanda Repella On July 27, 2015 · Add Comment · In Highlights, Opinions
Shafik Islam was recently featured in The Daily Star (Bangladesh) discussing the recent renewed interest in India’s ambitious river linking project, which seeks to build extensive and costly interbasin transfer infrastructure to provide additional water to regions that need it most. This project was envisioned and planning was initiated more than 30 years ago, but [...]
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Accessing adequate water in slums: SAI workshop on water and poverty in urban slums

By Amanda Repella On June 9, 2015 · Add Comment · In Highlights, Water Diplomacy Updates
This past April, Harvard’s South Asia Institute hosted a workshop on Water and Poverty in Urban Slums as a component of its annual symposium. Video of this event will be available from their website later this summer, but we have a detailed summary of the discussion among the panelists. In an attempt to better understand the [...]
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A [DRAFT] Timeline for the Nile

By Amanda Repella On April 14, 2015 · Add Comment · In Highlights
We're building a timeline for the Nile and hope to get your input
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Heard, Read, Seen by Water Diplomats This Week

By Amanda Repella On March 17, 2015 · Add Comment · In Heard, Read, Seen
A list of news and blog posts and other web items we stumbled upon in the past week… Researchers Link Syrian Conflict to a Drought Made Worse by Climate Change (New York Times) – Describes a new report in PNAS that suggests extreme drought in Syria was most likely a factor in the violent uprising [...]
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Heard, Read, Seen by Water Diplomats this Week

By Amanda Repella On January 12, 2015 · Add Comment · In Heard, Read, Seen
A list of news and blog posts and other web items we stumbled upon in the past week… Uzbekistan to allocate $3B to mitigate consequences of Aral Sea disaster (Trend News Agency) – describes how funds will be used for projects between 2015-2018. New irrigation scheme to link villages to water sources  (The Economic Times [...]
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Heard, Read, Seen by Water Diplomats this Week

By Amanda Repella On January 5, 2015 · Add Comment · In Heard, Read, Seen
A list of news and blog items we stumbled upon in the past week… The rising pressure of global water shortages (Nature) – a commentary by Jan Eliasson discussing the role of hydro-diplomacy to address current and future water challenges stemming from population pressure on water demand. ‘Poor plan’ desal plant can’t close (Sky News) [...]
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Heard, Read, Seen by Water Diplomats this Week

By Amanda Repella On December 29, 2014 · Add Comment · In Heard, Read, Seen
A list of news and blog items we stumbled upon in the past week… New Data Predicts Fiercer Floods In Brahmaputra, Indus (IndiaSpend.com) – Discusses a recent paper from Nature produced by ICIMOD and Utrecht University researchers. Parliamentary Panel shocked over absence of Flood Forecasting sites of CWC (The Economic Times) Is this an example [...]
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Heard, Read, Seen by Water Diplomats this Week

By Amanda Repella On December 22, 2014 · Add Comment · In Heard, Read, Seen
A list of news and blog items we stumbled upon in the past week… The answer on human-caused climate change is in (The Sacromento Bee) When you ask the right questions, the answer isn’t surprising. Here, Peter Gleick discusses this in the context of the ongoing California (U.S.) drought. What did the Romans ever do [...]
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