Climate Action // Solar Irrigation Can Improve Food Security and Prosperity, Says UN Agency
New research from the the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations has shown the significant potential for solar powered…
Devex // Opinion: How to Keep Africa’s Boom in Solar-Powered Irrigation From Going Bust
By: Miriam Otoo and Petra Schmitter. Solar-powered irrigation pumps are without a doubt one of Africa’s most promising solutions to climate change…
IOGP // Water Energy Nexus (Water Energy What?)
By: Olaf Martins, IOGP’s global engagement manager. Only a balanced energy future can meet the world’s growing energy needs. Today the global energy…
Water-Energy Nexus // A Pre-feasibility Study for Mid-east Water-renewable Energy Exchanges
By David Katz and Arkadiy Shafran. In the face of strong population growth, the region’s countries are in need of long-term strategic planning in the…
Infographic // Solar Water Pumping - ready for mainstreaming?
Infographic by the Worldbank showing the price history of PV solar cells, a diesel-vs-solar cost calculation, possible flow, lifespan and challenges…
Database // Interactive Solar Water Pumping Knowledge Base
This collection is an overview of 213 solar water pumping projects all over the world from 2001 up to 2016 (plus one project from 1995). The data is…
Nexus of Water-Energy-Food as an Approach to Face Climate Change // Morocco's Intergral Concepts for Climatic Challenges
By Hind Bouhia, Global Nexus. Morocco, home to cereal, olive, and livestock cultivation, is continuously feeling the effect of climate change due to…
Water-Energy Nexus // Energy Resource Use Options for Improved Energy Security in Ethiopia
By Hiroshan Hettiarachchi, UNU-FLORES. Ethiopia’s energy sector faces critical challenges to meet a steadily increasing energy demand. This is due to…
Nexus in Germany // Coordination of Sectoral Interests in the Nexus between Water, Energy and Agriculture – Mechanisms and Interests in Germany
By Sabine Blumstein, Annika Kramer and Alexander Carius. In this study, commissioned by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit…
Nexus in Mountains // Understanding the Changing Water-Energy-Food Nexus Along an Altitude Gradient in Nepal
A student project at the University of Leeds is to collect and analyse Nexus data for Nepal to create a case study for the specific situation in…
Water, Land and Ecosystems // Water-energy-food weave a tangled web. Here’s how we can navigate it
By Jennie Barron. Ethiopia is currently building one of the world’s largest hydroelectric dams on the Blue Nile River close to its Sudanese border.…
WASAG // The Global Framework on Water Scarcity in Agriculture
WASAG has been designed to bring together key players across the globe and across sectors to tackle the collective challenge of using water better in…
Thirsty Energy Case Study // Modeling the Water-Energy Nexus in China
By Diego Juan Rodriguez, Morgan Bazilian, Anna Delgado Martin and Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm. China is increasingly aware of the complex…
Water-Migration Nexus Side Event at UNFCC // Water Stress and Human Mobility: Freshwater Solutions for Resilience and Peacebuilding
The side event aims at contributing to and presenting the work of the Task Force on Displacement created at COP21 to develop recommendations for…
WEAP Tool // Release of Major New Version of SEI's Powerful "Water Evaluation And Planning" Software
Freshwater management challenges are increasingly common. Allocation of limited water resources between agricultural, municipal and environmental…