Mar 23, 2022 | News, Research
March 2022 Under the patronage of His Royal Highness Prince El-Hassan bin Talal of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Chairman of the Higher Council for Science and Technology, the University of Manchester (United Kingdom), Methods for Irrigation and Agriculture...
Oct 22, 2020 | News, Research, World Commission on Dams
Latin America is currently seeing a boom in the construction of new dams. Brazil is the world’s third largest producer of hydroelectric energy, largely thanks to its abundant water resources. Small-scale hydropower dams (locally known as PCHs) have become an...
Oct 16, 2020 | News, Research
Near-term concerns about the impact of The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on water availability for Egypt and Sudan are unlikely to materialise, but drought preparedness will require careful coordination, suggests research published today by researchers from...
Aug 13, 2020 | News, Research, Water resources
Watch Julien Harou’s FutureDAMS presentation ‘New approaches for managing water under regional resource conflicts‘. The webinar was part of the ‘Water Research at Manchester – Water and Sustainable Development’ event convened by Manchester...
Jul 7, 2020 | comment, News, power systems, Research, Water resources
By Julien Harou, Mathaios Panteli, Jose Gonzalez Cabrera, Gloria Salmoral and Rose Sumner. Traditionally planners considered the effects of water and energy systems on the other in simplified ways or not at all. This has often led to inefficient use of resources and a...
Jun 19, 2020 | Agriculture and livelihoods, News, Research
By Sarah Redicker and Roshan Adhikari, The Global Development Institute The Covid-19 pandemic is having wide ranging effects on agricultural systems including major disruptions in food supply chains and other shocks affecting food production, as well as rural...
