Water-resource management
News // Managing the Water and Energy Nexus – What’s needed in a water utility for the future
By Hassan Aboelnga (Middle East Water Forum) and Dragan Savić (KWR Water Research Institute, Netherlands). Water utilities provide access to safe…
Publication // Accounting for livestock water productivity: How and why?
This Discussion Paper is the result of a renewed collaboration between the Land and Water Division and the Animal Production and Health Division of…
Nexus Interview Series // Desire Sengoga, Regional Advisor for the support to the integrated management of water resources of lake Kivu and Ruzizi river
The interview series aims to provide a better picture of the people within the Nexus team and their perspectives on Water Energy Food Nexus…
Guidelines // FAO Guidelines for the calculation of the agriculture water use efficiency for global reporting
These guidelines are intended to assist countries in understanding the agronomic parameters involved in the computation of the agricultural…
Research Article // How Agriculture, Connectivity and Water Management Can Affect Water Quality of a Mediterranean Coastal Wetland
By Lucía Vera-Herrera and colleagues. The aim of this research was to assess the water quality of the different aquatic environments of the Natural…
Research Article // Techno-economic scenario analysis of containerized solar energy for use cases at the food/water/health nexus in Rwanda
By A. Gill-Wiehl and colleagues. This analysis combines modeled and in-the-field data to consider three use cases (water, food, and health), across…
Publication // Virtual water: its implications on agriculture and trade
By Chittaranjan Ray, David McInnes and Matthew Sanderson. This article considers questions of gaps in knowledge, why sustainability matters, and the…
Research Article // Analysis of Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Centralized and Decentralized Water Reclamation with Resource Recovery Strategies in Leh Town, Ladakh, India, and Potential for Their Reduction in Context of the Water–Energy–Food Nexus
By Mounia Lahmouri, Jörg E. Drewes and Daphne Gondhalekar. This study compared the carbon footprint of the operation of the current and future water…
Research Article // Toward sustainable water resources management: critical assessment on the implementation of integrated water resources management and water–energy–food nexus in Afghanistan
By Ajmal Khan Shams and Nur Shazwani Muhammad. This study found that it is important to apply integrated approaches like integrated water resources…
Research article // Integration of green and gray infrastructures for sponge city: Water and energy nexus
By Yongjun Sun, Li Deng, Shu-Yuan Pan, Pen-Chi Chiang, Shailesh S. Sable, Kinjal J. Shah. This paper introduces the concepts of gray infrastructure,…
Publicación // Análisis comparativo de acciones con enfoque del Nexo Agua-Energía-Alimentación: lecciones aprendidas para los países de América Latina y el Caribe
By Bárbara A. Willaarts, Elisa Blanco, Alba Llavona and Diego Martínez. Este estudio constituye un esfuerzo para visibilizar y analizar políticas…
Dialogue Régional Nexus dans le Bassin du Niger // L’Autorité du Bassin du Niger adopte ses premières directives transfrontalières sur le Nexus Eau-Energie-Alimentation-Environnement
Le 7 décembre 2022, dans la capitale du Tchad, N’Djamena, le Conseil de Ministres de l’Autorité du Bassin du Niger (ABN) a adopté des premières…
Scientific Report // An African perspective on the Water-Energy-Food nexus
By Gareth B. Simpson and colleagues. There is a need to address resource security and distributional justice in developing countries. People need…
Blog Nexus // Aperçu de la séance de la COP26: L’eau, le climat et les frontières : Le rôle de la coopération entre les bassins fluviaux pour la résilience climatique
Dans le cadre du tout premier Pavillon eau de la Conférence sur le climat COP26, qui a eu lieu le 12 novembre 2021, la GIZ, en collaboration avec le…
Research Article // Paths and strategies for a resilient megacity based on the water-energy-food Nexus
By Yun ZHU and colleagues. The roadmap of disaster impacting on the resilience of megacities was analyzed to select indexes, an evaluation index…