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1 April 2005
The Water Tower Function of the Tibetan Autonomous Region
Together with several project partners FutureWater has been actively involved in a project in the Tibetan Autonomous Region, which is funded by the Ecoregional Fund. A combination of Remote Sensing and hydrological modeling is applied to assess the Tibet’s richly endowed water resources. Emphasis was put on the effectiveness of these tools at different scales...
1 February 2005
FutureWater has moved from Arnhem to our new office in Wageningen
In this way FutureWater is located in the heart of “Wageningen knowledge center” with institutes as Wageningen University and several (applied) Research Centers. Our new address is: FutureWater Generaal Foulkesweg 28 6703 BS Wageningen tel: 0317 460050 fax: 0317 423716 email: info@futurewater.nl web: https://www.futurewater.nl You can find a detailed description here
1 December 2004
Opportunities to retain and store water in Flevoland
FutureView methode applied With our FutureView method the opportunities to retain and store water were quantified in the Province of Flevoland, The Netherlands. Especially in the Noordoostpolder and Eastern Flevoland excess water can be retained and stored in the soil. The suitability maps can be the basis in the decision making process to pinpoint locations...
1 November 2004
Project on Adaptation to Climate Change in The Gambia
FutureWater finalized a project Adaptation to Climate Change in The Gambia. The objectives of this project were to build and strengthen the institutional capacity, to develop and implement analytical tools for estimating and comparing the costs and benefits of adaptation projects in key natural resource sectors. To achieve these objectives the framework was built together...
1 October 2004
The (un)certainty of Climate Change
The Dutch National Administrative Agreement on Water (Nationaal Bestuursakkoord Water) uses projected precipitation changes derived from a climate change scenario with a global temperature rise of 1ºC in 2050 and 2ºC at the end of the 21e century. FutureWater and KNMI compared precipitation projections based on large scale, General Circulation Models (GCM) with the projection...
1 September 2004
Correction of laser altimetry DEM data (AHN) The Netherlands
Knowledge on the exact elevation is crucial in many strategic and research studies on water management and water policy. In the Netherlands the available DEM is very accurate, but especially when trying to determine the lowest elevation in certain areas problems arise. In many places the lowest elevations in the DEM are actually located within...
1 July 2004
Publication list online
As part of our download section FutureWater now has an online publication list as a extra service to our website visitors. The publication list contains a large selection of (scientific) publications with links and oppertunities to download abstracts or gives even full-text access to papers. For more information about our publications, please visit our download...
1 May 2004
New FutureWater product launched: FutureView
In May FUTUREVIEW, the newest product of FutureWater was launched and marketed on the Dutch water market. FUTUREVIEW is a method for regional spatial distributed analysis of the possibilities to retain and store current and future precipitation surplusses in the soil and surface water. FUTUREVIEW is unique since is focusses on soil water and the...
1 February 2004
Course Climate Change and Water Management a succes
On 3 and 4 February the course climate change and water management was given at the KNMI in de Bilt, The Netherlands. The course, in colloboration with Royal Dutch Meteorologic Institute (KNMI) and the Institute for Environmental Studies(IVM) successfully bridged the gap between the most recent state of the art knowledge on climate and climate...
1 January 2004
Analysis of Effects of Adjustable Weirs: Opportunities to Retain and Store Water
With this pilot project Waterboard Zuiderzeeland implements the principles of the Dutch policy “WB21” (Water Policy 21st Century): first retain, second store, and finally discharge of water. The project concluded that adjustable weirs can reduce and delay peak discharges without agicultural crop growth reduction due to increased soil moisture content upstream of the weirs; adjustable...
