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30 October 2025
FutureWater Showcases Smart Irrigation Solutions at Expo Agro Colombia 2025
FutureWater participated in Expo Agro Colombia 2025, held in Cartagena (Colombia) in September, as part of the Dutch delegation at the Netherlands Pavilion. The event brought together leading innovations and technologies from across the agricultural sector, fostering collaboration and exchange between Colombia and the Netherlands. Representing FutureWater, Evelyn Aparicio Medrano presented the company’s irrigation services...
29 October 2025
FutureWater Provides Climate Expertise to ADB’s Fact-Finding Mission in Pakistan
From 6–16 August 2025, Tania Imran from FutureWater participated in ADB’s fact-finding mission in Pakistan as a Climate Risk Expert for projects financed under the Panda Bond initiative. The mission reviewed four investment projects: Installation of a telemetry system for real-time discharge monitoring at 27 key sites in the Indus Basin Strengthening the power distribution...
28 October 2025
Reuse of Water in Agricultural Systems: Follow the Water
Expected water savings by implementing advanced irrigation technologies have in many cases not been achieved and have even led to higher water consumption by irrigators. This has been to the advantage of farmers concerned (more crop produced), but has been disappointing to planners who were hoping to save water (in fact, making it available for...
27 October 2025
Water Accounting Capacity Building Program Successfully Delivered in Vietnam
FutureWater, in collaboration with FAO, has been implementing a two-phase, hands-on training program on Water Accounting under the Water Scarcity Program for Asia and the Pacific. The second phase, held on 25–26 June in Ha Long, Vietnam, marked the successful completion of the capacity-building initiative. The second in-country session took place from 25-26 June in...
23 October 2025
MAGDA’s technology Boosts Precision Farming with Advanced Weather and Soil Data
A scientific paper was recently published in Remote Sensing (doi: 10.3390/rs17111855) presenting the advanced technology developed by the MAGDA project, which integrates multiple sensor platforms and modeling tools to enhance agricultural weather forecasts and irrigation advisories. This new research offers a breakthrough in precision farming by combining data from European satellites, drones, ground sensors, and...
15 October 2025
The MegaWat Project Advances Adaptation to Megadroughts in European Water Towers
On October 8 and 9, 2025, the 2nd Annual Meeting of the MegaWat project was held at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (Klosterneuburg). MegaWat is an international initiative dedicated to assessing the impact of megadroughts on European high mountain regions. FutureWater, which is leading the Work Package on Resilience and Adaptation, presented progress...
23 September 2025
Wageningen Students help Develop Seasonal Forecasting and Policy Advisory Tool for BUCRA Project
MSc students at Wageningen University (WUR) have the opportunity in their master programmes to work as consultants on real-world problems. This year, four students from different master’s programmes conducted research and developed new solutions for FutureWater’s work in the BUCRA project in Egypt. BUCRA is an RvO-sponsored project in which FutureWater, the Netherlands African Business...
17 September 2025
SPHY Webinar on 9 October: Explore the Next Chapter in Hydrological Modelling
We invite you to the SPHY Hydrological Model Webinar on 9 October 2025, from 10:00 to 11:00 CET. This event will showcase the latest developments in SPHY, including new tools, features, and workflows, and provide an interactive platform to ask your questions. A New Era for SPHY SPHY is undergoing a major transformation to become...
16 September 2025
Thriving Through Extremes: FutureWater’s Blueprint for Resilient Rainfed Farming in a Climate-Challenged World
FutureWater has concluded the first phase of a pioneering applied research project to support a safe and resilient transition in regenerative agriculture in remote rural areas of South Spain. A resilient transition in regenerative agriculture involves a gradual shift from conventional practices toward systems that foster the conservation and restoration of soils, water, and biodiversity...
10 September 2025
SPHY Enters a New Era: QGIS Plugin, Website, Model v3.1 & Resources
To further advance our hydrological model SPHY, we are proud to announce four major milestones for the SPHY modelling community. Since SPHY is widely used by FutureWater in capacity building programs, our goal has always been to make the model and its data as accessible and user-friendly as possible. Until now, Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs)...
