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Gender and IWRM
Advancing towards gender mainstreaming in water resources management In 2020-21, the SDG 6 IWRM Support Programme carried out a study in order to understand the bottlenecks to acceleration on this topic, as well as showcasing and disseminating a range of practices that have been implemented around the world, highlighting common gaps, challenges and constraints, and key enabling factors, and providing recommendations on…
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Women remain underrepresented in water resources management
Advancing towards gender mainstreaming in water resources management A new report by the Global Water Partnership (GWP) and UNEP-DHI (United Nations Environment Programme Centre of Water and Environment), shows progress has been slow in countries meeting gender objectives in their water management policies and plans. In many developing countries, women are the de facto water decision makers in households. Research…
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Women’s empowerment in water and sanitation
A systematic review and qualitative metasynthesis by Bethany A Caruso Author content Source and full PDF: researchgate.net Abstract and Figures Historically, water and sanitation programs have focused on women’s instrumental value in improving conditions and behaviors. No reviews have synthesized evidence on water and sanitation and women’s and girls’ empowerment. This review – a) identified empirical…
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Women's empowerment in water and sanitation
A systematic review and qualitative metasynthesis by Bethany A Caruso Author content Source and full PDF: researchgate.net Abstract and Figures Historically, water and sanitation programs have focused on women’s instrumental value in improving conditions and behaviors. No reviews have synthesized evidence on water and sanitation and women’s and girls’ empowerment. This review – a) identified empirical…
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Water Woman Leadership Discussion: Gender Parity for Water Resilience
Is women water management different ? Water managers discuss the need for increasing gender parity in the workforce and share current and needed policies, practices and programs that can help scale solutions to bridging the gender gap. Featured panelists include Hayati Yarkadas, President, Water Infrastructure, Xylem, Sharon Peters, President/CEO, EMA, Inc., and Alicia Douglas, Founder/CEO,…
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Concerning Change to Earth’s Water Cycle, Satellite Data Reveal
Climate scientists expect a greater evaporation on the ocean surface Climate change is throwing Earth’s water cycle severely out of whack. According to new satellite data, freshwaters are growing fresher and salt waters are growing saltier at an increasingly rapid rate all around the world. If this pattern continues, it will turbocharge rainstorms. The findings indicate…
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Concerning Change to Earth's Water Cycle, Satellite Data Reveal
Climate scientists expect a greater evaporation on the ocean surface Climate change is throwing Earth’s water cycle severely out of whack. According to new satellite data, freshwaters are growing fresher and salt waters are growing saltier at an increasingly rapid rate all around the world. If this pattern continues, it will turbocharge rainstorms. The findings indicate…
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Taking the “F” out of forever chemicals
The right solvent mix breaks down perfluorinated organic acids Source and more : Science.org SHIRA JOUDAN AND RYLAN J. LUNDGREN Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)—sometimes called “forever chemicals” because of their chemical stability—are synthetic molecules widely used in consumer products (1). Ironically, the characteristics that make these compounds useful, such as lipoand hydrophobicity, high thermal stability, and resistance to…
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Increasing stratification as observed by satellite sea surface salinity measurements – Nature.com
Source and more : Nature.com Science Reports Abstract Changes in the Earth’s water cycle can be estimated by analyzing sea surface salinity. This variable reflects the balance between precipitation and evaporation over the ocean, since the upper layers of the ocean are the most sensitive to atmosphere–ocean interactions. In situ measurements lack spatial and temporal…
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Which water supply will take over Foggaras Heritage ?
Algerian Sahara has one of the oldest sources of irrigation and water supply, named El-Foggara The disappearance of Foggaras not only translates to the disappearance of an important part of the environmental ecosystem of the region, it also undermines social and economic ecosystems that have been the norm for many generations. The Algerian Sahara has…
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6 Charts Show How the World is Improving
Good News Happens Slowly https://www.visualcapitalist.com/6-charts-show-world-improving/ t only takes a few minutes of cable news to get the feeling that the world is heading into a tailspin. Endless images of homicide investigations, natural disasters, car crashes, and drug busts fill the airwaves on a daily basis. It’s upsetting – but also certainly captivating for the average…
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Synergistic effects of hybrid advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) based on hydrodynamic cavitation phenomenon – A review
Recently, hydrodynamic cavitation (HC) based hybrid processes have shown a great potential in indusial scale water treatment Authors: Kirill Fedorov Gdansk University of Technology Kumaravel Dinesh National University of Ireland, Galway Xun Sun 孙逊 Shandong University Reza Darvishi Cheshmeh Soltani Zhaohui Wang East China Normal University Shirish H. Sonawane National Institute of Technology, Warangal Grzegorz…
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Outside the Safe Operating Space of a New Planetary Boundary for Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)
Rainwater & TapWater abstract It is hypothesized that environmental contamination by per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) defines a separate planetary boundary and that this boundary has been exceeded. This hypothesis is tested by comparing the levels of four selected perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAAs) (i.e., perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS), perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), perfluorohexanesulfonic acid (PFHxS), and perfluorononanoic acid…
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Microfluidic Salinity Gradient-Induced All-Day Electricity Production in Solar Steam Generation
Energy, Environmental and Catalysis Applications ACS Publications Tawseef Ahmad Wani Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Jammu, Jammu, J & K 181221, India More by Tawseef Ahmad Wani Priya Kaith Parul Garg Ashok Bera* ABSTRACT Synergistic generation of freshwater and electricity using solar light would be an ideal solution for global freshwater challenges and energy…
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How Israel used innovation to beat its water crisis
What can the world learn from Israel’s experience? Source and more : israel21c.org Photo : water-technology.net Israel was a desert (with some people but dry weather), and water resources are scarce, but today it produces 20% more water than it needs. How did Israel, a country that is more than half desert, frequently hit with…