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10 July 2013
Two recent developments presented at 11th International Precipitation Conference
Last week the 11th International Precipitation Conference took place, in Wageningen, Netherlands. FutureWater presented two recent outcomes: one on the spatial prediction of precipitation and the second on the effect of high-resolution rainfall products on small catchments. The first development presented by Johannes Hunink to experts in the field was the spatial mapping tool for...
18 June 2013
Summer course on climate change and hydrological impacts
FutureWater will collaborate in a summer course at the Tecnnical University of Cartagena (UPCT), on decision support methods and tools that allow to anticipate, assess and adapt to hydrological changes linked to global change. FutureWater staff will expose different methodologies to carry out their studies in this field, including in Spain and Argentina. Also they...
10 April 2013
Expansion of the FutureWater team in Spain
Since April 2013 the FutureWater team in Cartagena, Spain, is enforced by Dr. S. (Sergio) Contreras López. Sergio is specialized in the ecohydrological functioning of native and agroecosytems of arid regions, and its relation with human activities. He will start working on a project in southeastern Spain, using several remote sensing tools and the SPHY...
8 March 2013
Workshop and seminar on spatial rainfall product in Ecuador
Last week a 3-day workshop was organized in Ecuador for technical experts on water resources management. This workshop concluded the project carried out in the Tungurahua province, on remote sensing-based rainfall mapping. The objective of the workshop was to transfer the results to the technical staff of the province administration and other institutes in Ecuador...
29 January 2013
Successful completion of the “Assessment of the irrigation potential” study
In February 2011 FutureWater in collaboration with WaterWatch started a research on the irrigation potential of the seven Nile Equatorial Lakes (NEL) countries, on behalf of the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) and in cooperation with the Regional Agriculture and Trade Program (RATP). In the first phase the countrywide irrigation potential was studied for Burundi, Kenya,...
28 January 2013
Green Water Management and Credits Toolkit for China
In June 2012, a consortium of ISRIC, FutureWater, and Nelen en Schuurmans started the project, financed by Partners for Water/NL. Green Water Management & Credits is a concept that allows quantification of water supply and demand, erosion reduction, yield increase, sedimentation amounts, and hydropower production. These are needed to calculate the economic costs and benefits...
23 January 2013
Peter Droogers appointed as Editor of Agricultural Water Management Journal
Peter Droogers, director of FutureWater, has been appointed as Editor of the scientific journal Agricultural Water Management. The journal publishes papers of international significance relating to the science, economics, and policy of agricultural water management. Peter responded to his nomination that “this appointment is a wonderful reflection of our scientific work at FutureWater over the...
12 December 2012
Final successful presentation of the REDSIM project in Brussels
The DG-Environment of the European Commission organized a meeting in Brussels, in which the 4 pilot projects launched in 2011, including REDSIM, showed and discussed their final results with the European officers. The goal of the meeting was to provide input for the Blueprint to safeguard waters in Europe, of which a policy document has...
1 November 2012
A study on the use of high-resolution vs. coarse-resolution satellite imagery in crop yield forecasting
FutureWater has started a project that evaluates the added value of high-resolution satellite imagery above coarse resolution satellite imagery in crop yield forecasting. FutureWater undertakes this project in collaboration with the Soil Physics and Land Management Group of Wageningen University and eLeaf. This project is commissioned by CCAFS and funded by CIAT. The question of...
2 October 2012
Started a study on rainfall variability in province of Ecuador
FutureWater just started a study on the spatial and temporal variability of rainfall in the catchments of a province in Ecuador. In this area there are currently large data gaps and no detailed information exists on the principal component of the water balance. Besides, especially in the high mountain areas (moorland) there are hardly any...
