Research news | 2021-02-24

Life after Day Zero: how Cape Town can adapt to climate change while also addressing inequality

After the scare in 2018, ramped up efforts to waste less water came at a cost to the city’s most vulnerable. Researchers and community activists gave these marginalised communities a voice

Research news | 2021-02-02

In drought-prone Sahel, rain still remains a gift only few farmers can enjoy

Since the 1980s, rainfall conditions for agriculture have improved only in scattered areas across the region

Research news | 2020-09-07

East Africa and Southeast Asia are hotspots for water harvesting

Untapped potential means water harvesting can increase crop production up to 60–100 per cent in Uganda, Burundi, Tanzania and India

Research news | 2020-03-23

Saving the planet’s bloodstream

Researchers urge hydrology and water community to join the “Grand Challenge” in establishing safe limits to human interference with the global water cycle

Research news | 2020-02-19

How to manage the world’s most important life-support system

Malin Falkenmark calls for a shift towards a water based biosphere stewardship. The alternative, she warns, could be catastrophic

Research news | 2019-10-25

Ditches, fishponds, weirs, reservoirs, fish ladders, and irrigation channels harbour unexplored opportunities

Little research has been done on the untapped potential and unintended consequences of human-made water bodies like ditches, fishponds, weirs, reservoirs, fish ladders, and irrigation channels

Research news | 2019-10-03

What flows around comes around

Why human actions on land can threaten the quality of water in lakes

Research news | 2019-09-30

A perspective on the future of Africa’s water resources

Researchers predict the impact of climate change on Africa’s water resources

Research news | 2019-01-24

The need to improve scientific models to understand human impact on the environment

Mathematical models are essential in the quest to better understand the human impact on the world’s ecosystems. Lake Victoria may hold the cues

Research news | 2018-09-06

Rivers run from faraway

Water and land governance need to consider effects of distant land-use change, because local land-use decisions are not as local as we have always assumed

Research news | 2018-06-19

Why a shift in water thinking is crucial for Sub-Saharan Africa’s future

Major population increases present Sub-Saharan Africa with complicated water-related challenges that requires a shift in water thinking

Research news | 2017-06-07

Issues surrounding freshwater use in seafood production

New study introduces the 'seafood gap', the forgotten freshwater use in seafood production chains

Research news | 2017-03-01

Water for food, food for thought

Centre director Line Gordon wants to visualize the invisible part of the water cycle and find tasty pathways to more sustainable and healthy food systems

Research news | 2016-03-23

The need to include crop water management in the Sustainable Development Goals

Improved water management could boost agricultural yields and halve global food gap by 2050

Research news | 2016-03-23

The plants that regulate the rain

Why landscapes that regulate downwind rainfall are key producers of ecosystem services

Research news | 2014-03-22

Building water resilience for human prosperity

New book introduces new framework for water governance and management

Research news | 2013-04-30

Freshwater resource management

Not enough freshwater for both food production and carbon sequestration