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Engaging Stakeholders in Sustainable Groundwater Management in California

August 16, 2017 Yasmin Zaerpoor, Larry Susskind, Elizabeth Cooper and Shafiqul Islam
Water is used for agricultural purposes, household needs, energy generation, transportation, recreation, and environmental protection. If there were an unlimited supply of high quality water available all the time, there would be no need to prioritize among these competing uses. However, as demand outstrips supply and uncertainty about how much water there will be in [...]
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Ideals, Ideas and implementation of Interdisciplinary Scholarship: Tufts Experiment in Water Diplomacy Theory and Practice

May 26, 2017 Shafiqul Islam
The Academy – founded by Plato and transformed into the modern University – is an ideal institution to cultivate, create, and disseminate universal knowledge. Water Diplomacy is an idea –  conceived by a group of reflective water scholars and professionals in Boston in 2006 – with an ambitious goal to explore new ways to “think [...]
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Transboundary Water Governance – Takeaways from 2015 World Water Week

September 10, 2015 Tahira Syed
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This year marked the 25th anniversary of the World Water Week organized by the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) in Sweden. The event lived up to its past reputation as a key event for gathering water practitioners, scientists, global experts, financiers, diplomats and politicians from around the world. From transboundary water perspective, this year also saw [...]
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Understanding Climate Change from Data: What can data scientists and domain experts do to develop actionable insight?

August 10, 2015 Shafiqul Islam
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I have just returned after a two-day engaging interdisciplinary conversation with more than 70 scientists, practitioners, faculty, and students from data science, machine learning, climate science, water science, agricultural sciences, and remote sensing representing both the academic and practice community at the 5th Annual Expeditions in Computing Workshop on “Understanding Climate Change from Data”. Vipin Kumar – a [...]
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Reframing Water Challenges

July 27, 2015 Amanda Repella
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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

June 9, 2015 Amanda Repella
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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

April 14, 2015 Amanda Repella and Molly E. Greer
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We're building a timeline for the Nile and hope to get your input
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Trust, not water, has been scarce for a long time: a conversation with Christine Buesser about Water in Gaza

October 23, 2014 Amanda Repella
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Chrisine Buesser left Switzerland more than 15 years ago to initially pursue a degree in Business Administration at Babson College. From there, she worked as an investment banker in New York City for three years before joining Médecins Sans Frontières‎ (MSF/ Doctors Without Borders) in 2007. Since then, she has lead MSF’s projects and missions [...]
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Water Stories: Art Meets Science

October 2, 2014 Amanda Repella
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Since July, the Museum of Science (MoS) has been home to a special temporary exhibit: Water Stories: a conversation in paint and sound. Anne Neely, an accomplished New England based artist started painting the featured land and waterscapes after reading de Villier’s Water, the Fate of our Must Precious Resource, and the exhibit space is [...]
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Technology Transfer for Climate Adaptation

September 25, 2014 Laura Kuhl
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As the international community gears up for the climate negotiations in Lima this December, technology transfer features prominently on the agenda. Technology transfer is essential for both mitigation and adaptation, and technologies, while not themselves a solution to climate related challenges, will play an important role in climate change mitigation and adaptation...
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