Noticias
Water-Food Nexus // Call for Papers: Sustainable Water Management in Agriculture under Global Change
For the forthcoming special issue of "Water", the editors Maria Blanco and Pilar Martínez invite scholars to submit papers on the critical question…
Water-Energy Nexus // Turkey tests first floating 260 kW solar power plant in Istanbul
Turkey got its first floating solar plant on August 4 when a solar array of 250 kW became operational on lake Buyukcekmece lake outside Istanbul as a…
Water-Energy-Food Nexus in the Niger Basin // New section of NEXUS Platform now starting
The Niger River Basin covers an area of 2.13 million km2 and is home to over 130 million people in nine countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon,…
tagesschau // 160,000 solar panels on the water (German)
In Huainan, China, a very special solar power plant has been put into operation. Where only a few farmers lived a few years ago, some 160,000 solar…
PhD Programme // Integrated Management of Water, Soil and Waste
UNU-FLORES and Technische Universität Dresden are now accepting applications from graduates in engineering, social sciences, and natural sciences for…
Vacancy // Research Assistant at UN University/UNU-FLORES, incl. Nexus Observatory project
The UNU Institute for Integrated Management of Material Fluxes and of Resources (UNU-FLORES) is hiring a research assistant for its Capacity…
BBC // Food trade drains global water sources at 'alarming' rates
By Matt McGrath. The global market for foodstuffs is depleting water sources in many parts of the world quicker than they can naturally be refilled.…
Call for Papers // Special Issue on “Food-Energy-Water Nexus”
This special issue of "Resources, Conservation and Recycling" will provide an opportunity for knowledge exchange to advance our understanding of…
Nexus in Southern Africa // SADC countries attending the Sadc Water, Energy Ministers meeting in Swazi
Swaziland PM opens 36th Joint Meeting of SADC Ministers of Energy and Water, ahead of Resource Mobilisation and Energy Investment Forum, on 11 July…
BBC // Welsh Water invests £250m to produce green energy
Welsh Water is investing £250m to help produce its own energy needs and cut its £44m annual utility bill.
Science-Policy Gap // Closing the governance gaps in the water-energy-food nexus: Insights from integrative governance
The water-energy-food nexus has become a popular concept in environmental change research and policy debates. A new SEI working paper by Nina Weitz,…
Financial Tribune // Morocco to Build Largest Seawater Desalination Plant
The project will be developed by Abengoa, a Spain-based company that applies innovative technology solutions for sustainability in the energy and…
The Stand // Food waste leaves energy production much to digest
By Grant Reynolds and Paul Jones. How combining food waste with sewerage treatment could provide a source of renewable energy and reduce landfill.
Nexus in the SAARC Region // "Be mindful of the vital synergy of the three sectors!"
On 3-5 July 2017, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forests of Bhutan in collaboration with SAARC Agriculture Centre, SAARC Energy Centre and…
UN EMG Nexus Dialogues // "It will be crucial to increase, enchance, put in place, scale up"
By Hossein Fadaei. To implement the SDGs, it will be crucial to identify ways to increase coherence, enhance synergies in governance and policy…
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