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Freshwater ecosystems are central to the global water cycle, in local generation of freshwater flows, and the healthy functioning and resilience of other ecosystems. Freshwater security depends on healthy ecosystems. Current human threats to freshwater ecosystems include rapid infrastructure deve...


Matthews, Nathaniel[People and fresh water ecosystems: pressures, responses and resilience]People and fresh water ecosystems: pressures, responses and resilience

Uganda lies almost wholly within the Nile Basin and is a country characterised as well-endowed with water resources. Receiving considerable inflows of aid since the early 1990s, some of this aid emerging after the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro enabled the country to begin a process of Integ...


Nicol, AlanOdinga, W.[IWRM [Integrated Water Resources Management] in Uganda - progress after decades of implementation]IWRM [Integrated Water Resources Management] in Uganda - progress after decades of implementation

Climate change is a complex and cross-cutting problem that needs an integrated and transformative systems approach to respond to the challenge. Current sectoral approaches to climate change adaptation initiatives often create imbalances and retard sustainable development. Regional and internation...


Mpandeli, S.Naidoo, D.Mabhaudhi, T.Nhemachena, CharlesNhamo, LuxonLiphadzi, S.Hlahla, S.Modi, A.T.[Climate change adaptation through the water-energy-food nexus in southern Africa]Climate change adaptation through the water-energy-food nexus in southern Africa

Study region : Transboundary aquifers (TBAs) of Africa. Study focus: Review of work on TBAs in Africa, including an overview of assessments and management efforts that have taken place over the last half century. New hydrological insights : Seventy-two TBAs have been mapped in Africa. They underl...


Nijstena, G-J.Christelis, G.Villholth, Karen G.Braune, E.Gaye, B.C.[Transboundary aquifers of Africa: Review of the current state of knowledge and progress towards sustainable development and management]Transboundary aquifers of Africa: Review of the current state of knowledge and progress towards sustainable development and management

The last 60 years has seen unprecedented groundwater extraction and overdraft as well as development of new technologies for water treatment that together drive the advance in intentional groundwater replenishment known as managed aquifer recharge (MAR). This paper is the first known attempt to q...


Dillon, P.Stuyfzand, P.Grischek, T.Lluria, M.Jain, R.C.Bear, J.Schwarz, J.Wang, W.Fernández, E.Stefan, C.Pettenati, M.Gun, Jac van derSprenger, C.Massmann, G.Scanlon, B.R.Xanke, J.Jokela, P.Zheng, Y.Rossetto, R.Shamrukh, M.Pavelic, PaulMurray, E.Ross, A.Bonilla Valverde, J.P.Palma Nava, A.Ansems, N.Posavec, K.Ha, K.Martin, R.Sapiano, M.[Sixty years of global progress in managed aquifer recharge]Sixty years of global progress in managed aquifer recharge

This article examines community-driven multiple use water services (MUS) as pioneered by the Rural Village Water Resources Management Project (RVWRMP) in the Far and Mid-Western development regions of Nepal. These regions are characterised by poverty, remoteness, rugged terrain, food insecurity, ...


Rautanen, S.L.Koppen, Barbara C.M. vanWagle, N.[Community-driven multiple use water services: Lessons learned by the Rural Village Water Resources Management Project in Nepal]Community-driven multiple use water services: Lessons learned by the Rural Village Water Resources Management Project in Nepal

This article traces the history of integrated water resources management (IWRM) in South Africa since the 1970s. It examines IWRM according to its three common pillars, which are also reflected in South Africa's National Water Act: economic efficiency, environmental sustainability, and equity. Th...


Koppen, Barbara C.M. vanSchreiner, B.[Moving beyond Integrated Water Resources Management: Developmental Water Management in South Africa]Moving beyond Integrated Water Resources Management: Developmental Water Management in South Africa

A water and soil quality baseline study was carried out across the ~ 4500 km2 Vientiane Plain in Lao PDR. Eight water quality and nine soil parameters were analysed using field kits at 95 sites in March 2015. Elevated electrical conductivity and chloride were apparent at two sites due to geogenic...


Brindha, KarthikeyanPavelic, PaulSotoukee, T.[Environmental assessment of water and soil quality in the Vientiane Plain, Lao PDR]Environmental assessment of water and soil quality in the Vientiane Plain, Lao PDR

Kirkpatrick, ColinParker, DavidZhang, Yin-Fang[ An Empirical Analysis of State and Private Sector Provision of Water Services in Africa ]

Murgai, RinkuAli, MubarikByerlee, Derek[ Productivity Growth and Sustainability in Post-Green Revolution Agriculture : The Case of the Indian and Pakistan Punjabs ]

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