Author: Martijn
4 July 2014
Drought situation in Spain creates interest in monitoring tool of FutureWater
This year, a severe drought is threatening eastern and southern Spain.The last months have been extremely dry, threatening harvests of the rainfed areas and potentially putting farmers out of business. Murcia, Valencia and Alicante are among the worst hit areas, where rainfall has been down to just 25% of average levels, according to Meteorological Agency...
6 June 2014
The Third Eye: Flying Sensors to Support Farmers’ Decision Making
FutureWater is pleased to announce that we are one of the 39 finalists that were approved to conduct an innovative project for “Securing Water For Food: A Grand Challenge For Development”. The “Securing Water For Food” challenge was launched in 2013 at the World Water Week in Stockholm. This challenge is supported by the United...
2 June 2014
Increasing precipitation and glacier melt keep Asia’s rivers flowing. Continued water supply from the Himalayas in the coming decades.
A study from FutureWater, Utrecht University and the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) suggests that despite retreating glaciers, the amount of water supplied by the Himalayan mountains will increase in the coming decades. Their findings were published in Nature Climate Change on 1 June. Glacier- and snowmelt contribute water to ten important river...
13 May 2014
Participation in the first Joint River Symposium Rhine-Mekong
Representatives from the International Commission for the Hydrology of the Rhine basin (CHR), the International Commission for protection of the Rhine (ICPR) and the Mekong River Commission (MRC), government representatives, experts and scientists met on 8-9 May 2014 in Koblenz, Germany, at the 1st Rhine/Mekong Symposium under the theme “Climate Change and its Influence on...
27 January 2014
FutureWater will balance the water accounts in the Segura River Basin, Spain
Recently, a new project has been awarded on water accounting in the Segura River Basin, Spain to a consortium that includes FutureWater. The ASSET (Accounting System for the Segura river and Transfer) project is funded by the European Commission under the Preparatory Action on development of prevention activities to halt desertification in Europe supported by...
20 January 2014
FutureWater’s reserach on Climate Change highlighted
A study undertaken by a team of top-scientist led by FutureWater has been highlighted in “The Official Blog of the European Geosciences Union”. The study, undertaken on request of the World Bank, investigated the cost of adaptation to climate change and other changes in the Middle East and North Africa region. The blogged mentioned that...
5 December 2013
A successful expedition with Flying Sensors (UAVs) in the Himalayas
HiView and FutureWater recently contributed to a successful expedition to the Nepalese Himalayas. This was the second mission after October and repeat flights were conducted with an Unmanned Aerial Survey System on large glacier. Based on this second mission it will now be possible to compare the situation in May with October and based on...
1 December 2013
One year successful piloting with Flying Sensors (UAVs)
FutureWater celebrates one year successful piloting with Flying Sensors with its development partners HiView, Utrecht University, and ICIMOD. Flying Sensors, sometime referred to as UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles), can be considered as the third generation remote sensing. First generation remote sensing was done from manned airplanes, which is very costly and requires substantial preparation time...
21 November 2013
Peter Droogers’ scientific work highly cited (h-index of 20)
FutureWater’s scientific director Peter Droogers has reached the level to be amongst one of the highly cited scientists. His h-index has reached to a level of 20, which brings him to the top 10% researchers in terms of publications and citations. Peter has published in total 60 scientific publications and his work was cited in...
24 October 2013
WatPlaG seminars in Chimoio and Beira, Mozambique
During the week of 30 September through 4 October, the WatPlaG consortium (FutureWater, Waterschap Hunze and Aa’s, UNESCO-IHE, and WE-consult) visited Chimoio and Beira for two seminars, and hands-on training in using the WEAP model. This WatPlaG project mission started with a general project discussion on Monday at ARA-Centro, Beira. For the remainder of the...
