Call for Proposals: Providing technical assistance to Vietnam on national water resources planning
Submission Deadline: Friday 11 December 2020, 5.30pm (AEDT) The Australian Water Partnership (AWP) is seeking to appoint suitably qualified and experienced water resources and river basin planning experts to support the Government of Vietnam (GoV) in developing a National Water Resources Plan and Integrated River Basin Plans under the Australia-Mekong Water Facility.
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Benchmarking irrigation system performance in Cambodia
The Australian Water Partnership recently supported the development of a system to assess the performance of the irrigation sector in Cambodia as part of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) NextGen Program. Infrastructure expansion, rehabilitation and modernisation is critical to addressing water scarcity and increasing productivity in Cambodia but increasing competition for financial support […]
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Outgoing AWP CEO Nick Schofield retires after a 43-year career in the water sector
Last week the Australian Water Partnership team farewelled its CEO of almost three and a half years, Professor Nick Schofield, who is retiring after a 43-year career in the water sector based in his native UK and Australia. Commencing his tenure in July 2017, Nick led the AWP through the end of its first phase […]
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BasinGuide: A guide to river basin planning released
The Australian Water Partnership has published BasinGuide: A Guide to River Basin Planning to help practitioners address the challenge of water security and unsustainable river management, and further the ambitions of many Indo-Pacific countries to improve their river basin management and cooperation of shared rivers across jurisdictional boundaries. BasinGuide describes the Australian experience in river […]
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Australia and Thailand collaborate on irrigation water sharing to manage water scarcity
At the start of 2020, Thailand was in the midst of its worst drought in the last four decades. About half of the major reservoirs in the country were below 50 per cent of capacity, and low river levels meant saltwater intrusion affected drinking water supplies and farming. There has also been insufficient water to […]
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