Getting Pumped // A Quest to Finance Solar Irrigation in Kenya
By Evgenia Sokolova. Solar pumping is a well established technology. However, financing solar irrigation can often be difficult, especially for small…
Water Supply in Southeast Asia // "Water is life, contaminated water might mean death"
By Ruth Erlbeck. 2.1 billion (3 in 10) people worldwide lack access to safe, readily available water, 4.5 billion (6 in 10) people worldwide lack…
Making Sense of the Urban Nexus // An Integrated Approach to Intersecting Challenges
By Giulia Salvaterra and Michael Woodbridge. Cities are sites of complex and intersecting challenges which threaten the success of the global…
Where Is The Added Value of The Nexus Approach? // A Review of The Water-Energy-Food Nexus Literature
By Stephanie Galaitsi, Jason Veysey and Annette Huber-Lee. This report by SEI finds that water-energy-food (WEF) nexus research has not produced a…
Nexus Knowledge Dissemination // KWR Launches The Circonomist News Site
KWR has launched The Circonomist news site in collaboration with Dutch water companies and the Flemish De Watergroep. The English-language online…
OWWA Water Efficiency Fall Workshop // Water-Energy-GHG Nexus
The course will discuss where the province of Ontario/Canada is headed in terms of combining water, energy and GHG data and availability of funding…
Advocating a New Approach to Governing Water, Energy, and Food Security // Testing the Effects of Message Inoculation and Conclusion Explicitness in the Case of the WEF Nexus
Message sidedness, including its later format inoculation, and conclusion explicitness have been identified by researchers as two prominent message…
University of California // Water-Energy Nexus Course of Studies at Irvine
This program is designed for professionals already employed in the workforce and those new to the subject matter who wish to expand their career…
Water and Energy Meet at UC Irvine // University Launches Water-Energy Nexus Certificate Programme
By Mary Bufe. The Water-Energy Nexus certificate program is the first step toward introducing a new Master of Water Engineering degree program for…
Central Asia // Development of Investment Projects to Foster the WEF-Nexus at the 2nd Nexus Regional Steering Committee Meeting
The Regional Steering Committee (RSC) of the EU Nexus CA Dialogue Project discussed regional experiences in cooperation with the Senegal River Basin…
Sustainable Development Goal 6 // Synthesis Report 2018 on Water and Sanitation
UN-Water produced the SDG 6 Synthesis Report 2018 on Water and Sanitation to provide input on this goal to the UN Member States. This report…
High-level Political Forum Side Event // Sustainable Use of Waters – Precondition for a World without Hunger
“Sustainable Use of Waters – Precondition for a World without Hunger” is the title of a side event during the High-Level Political Forum of the…
Latin America and the Caribbean // The WEF-Nexus in planning processes
The training workshop on “The Water-Energy-Food Security Nexus in Planning Processes” introduced the WEF Nexus concept as an integrated solution for…
FAPESP Fellowships // Postdoctoral Fellowships in Sustainable Urbanization
The FAPESP Fellowships is linked to the Belmont Forum/JPI project “Understanding Innovative Initiatives for Governing Food, Water and Energy Nexus in…
Southeast Asia // Urban Nexus Approach Presented at the ICLEI World Congress in Montreal, Canda
The Urban Nexus approach was presented by GIZ at ICLEI's 10th World Congress, an event attended by more than 1,000 participants from all over the…