Posted by geocheryl on June 16, 2011
Ik heb mogen meewerken aan een inspiratieboekje van Deltares en Rijkswaterstaat. Zeer toepasselijk in de huidige droogte waar NL onder gebukt gaat!
Het waterbeheer in Nederland is op hoofdlijnen op orde. We zijn veilig en we hebben voldoende en relatief schoon water. Met het oog op de klimaatverandering, zeespiegelstijging en bodemdaling is het echter de vraag [...]
Posted by geocheryl on March 12, 2011
A friend sent me the link to the following site of RSOE EDIS just a few days before the earthquake and Tsunami hit Japan on March 11th 2011.
as they say: “Nothing happens unexpectedly, everything has an indication, we just have to observe the connections.”
RSOE EDIS helps to monitor (environmental) emergencies around the world. This is [...]
Posted by geocheryl on October 29, 2010
Watch this movie and see how the Netherlands deal with water in a changing world. Very inspiring!
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Posted by geocheryl on May 7, 2010
On the 15th and 16th of april, IGRAC and UNESCO-IHP organized an international workshop in Utrecht on new technologies and alternative information sources for conducting global assessments of transboundary aquifers (TBAS).
The workshop was organized in the context of a global Transboundary Water Assessment Program (TWAP) planned by the Global Environment Facility (GEF, Worldbank). IGRAC is [...]
Posted by geocheryl on March 28, 2010
April 22nd was World Water day. This year’s theme was Clean Water for a Healthy World. In other words, water quality. For the occasion, IGRAC sent out a newsletter to its network. Those interested can still read it online:
IGRAC’s most notable contributions to global groundwater quality assessments are the recent global assessment of saline and [...]