USACE Hydrologic Engineering Center and G-WADI Develop Methodology to Import Gridded Rainfall Data Globally Into the Hydrologic Modeling System (HEC-HMS) July 15, 2017 Water-related software from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Hydrologic Engineering Center (HEC) is very popular internationally because it is high quality, is well documented, comes with training, is supported, and is freely downloadable. HEC’s hydrologic modeling system (HEC-HMS) is no exception. However, one limitation has been that it has not been possible to utilize the gridded precipitation option for areas outside of the United States due to limitations in how gridded data was stored in the model. Read more
G-WADI Co-Organizes Technical Workshop on Climate Change Risk, Vulnerability Assessment and Early Warning for Africa June 20, 2017 Africa is “ground zero” for vulnerability to climate variability and change because of its overall low level of adaptive capacity. Any increases in frequency and severity of climate related events such as floods, drought, heat waves, etc. would only increase the risk of disasters. However, climate relevant information in Africa is, in general, very scattered and with low resolution, and characterized by significant uncertainties. Further, the capacity of relevant stakeholders to collect, process and deliver appropriate climate related information is, overall, limited. Read more
G-WADI Co-organizes Seminar on Rainwater Harvesting Techniques April 10, 2017 A seminar on Rainwater Harvesting Techniques: A Tool to Deal with Water Scarcity, was held at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) building, 9-10 March 2017, Santiago Chile. It was organized by UNESCO-IHP’s Global Network on Water and Development Information for Arid Lands (G-WADI) and the UNESCO-affiliated center CAZALAC (La Serena, Chile), and was hosted by FAO. Read more Image
G-WADI Cosponsors Third ASEAN Academic Network Technical Training Workshop for Water and Disaster Management Feb. 28, 2017 In the wake of heavy flooding in Southern Thailand in early January, water scientists and policy-makers from ASEAN member states gathered in Bangkok to promote capacity building in using satellite-based rainfall estimation products to plan for and manage water-related natural disasters as well as to strengthen research collaboration through the ASEAN academic network. Read more Image
G-WADI Workshop held in Zimbabwe on the African Flood and Drought Monitor Jan. 15, 2017 UNESCO G-WADI partners Princeton University (USA) and Southampton University (UK) led a workshop on Drought Monitoring for Southern African Countries on November 9-11, 2016. The technology exchange was aimed at helping countries to strengthen their capacity in water-related disaster risk reduction. Read more Image
G-WADI partner University of California, Irvine releases new real-time precipitation app “iRain” Nov. 8, 2016 The University of California, Irvine's Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing, which has a long collaborative relationship with G-WADI, has released a new mobile app “iRain”, combining real-time rainfall information, citizen science and social media. Read more Image
G-WADI Celebrates its Past and Plans its Future Oct. 31, 2016 The Global Network on Water and Development Information for Arid Lands (G-WADI) celebrated a decade of achievements with an international conference entitled “G-WADI: More than a decade enhancing water and sustainable development for arid regions”. The meeting took place on 25-27 October 2016 in Beijing, China. Read more Image
G-WADI, ICIWARM and NASA Collaborate on Remote Sensing Course in Foz do Iguacu, Brazil July 31, 2016 From 11-20 July 2016 in Foz do Iguacu, Brazil, a training course was held on “Application of Satellite Remote Sensing to Support Water Resources Management in Latin America and the Caribbean”. The course was organized locally by the International Hydroinformatics Center, a bi-national (Paraguay and Brazil) UNESCO category 2 center hosted by Itaipú Binacional. Read more Image
G-WADI Training Workshop held in Khartoum March 15, 2016 On February 17th – 18th, 2016 in Khartoum, Sudan, G-WADI held a Training Workshop on “Advances in Water Resources Management in Arid and Semi-Arid Areas: A G-WADI approach”. The workshop was organized by the Water Research Centre of the Faculty of Engineering, University of Khartoum, in collaboration with the Regional Centre on Capacity Development and Research on Water Harvesting (RCWH) and the Sudanese National Commission for UNESCO. Read more Image
Namibia Uses IHP-supported G-WADI’s Precipitation Estimates in their Daily Flood Bulletin Feb. 15, 2016 All of Namibia’s perennial rivers are border rivers and have their origin outside of the country. In the northeast, the Kunene, Kavango and Kwando Rivers originate in Angola, and the Zambezi River in Zambia; while in the south, the Orange River originates in Lesotho. Water resources planning, and emergency preparedness for floods and droughts, requires information on upstream conditions of these rivers. Read more