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Supporting improvement of Thailand’s water quality management
Thailand is facing challenges with managing water quality in many reservoirs across the country due to pressure from agricultural, domestic, and industrial pollution, coupled with urbanisation and climate change. The…
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Helping fish to migrate and breed in the Lower Mekong Basin
As hydropower development increases in the Lower Mekong Basin, there are concerns about the impacts on fisheries which provide significant socio-economic value to the basin population. AWP has partnered…
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Scaling-up nature-based solutions for climate-resilient cities
Our future is urban. Cities fuel our economies, nurture innovation and have tremendous capacity to improve quality of life. More than half of the world’s population now live in…
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$232 million Mekong-Australia Partnership launched
On 8 November 2021, the Cambodian component of the Mekong-Australia Partnership (MAP) was launched following a bilateral meeting between Cambodian Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, His Excellency…
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Flood response technology in Timor-Leste contributes to regional Mekong dialogue on water security
A collaboration between Australia and Timor-Leste water sectors supported by the Australian Water Partnership (AWP) was highlighted at the ASEAN-MRC Water Security Dialogue, co-hosted as a hybrid event…
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Valuing water through nature-based solutions in the Mekong Region
The value of water is about much more than its price – water has enormous and complex value for our households, culture, health, education, economics and the integrity of…
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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…
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Australia to assist South East Asia with early warning COVID-19 surveillance
The Australian water sector is set to help five South-East Asian nations develop an early warning surveillance system to track COVID-19 prevalence in wastewater, with the support of the…
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Valuing the benefits of Nature-based Solutions for integrated urban flood management in Asia
The Australian Water Partnership is supporting a new initiative as part of its Australia-Mekong Water Facility to identify, evaluate and realise the benefits associated with Nature-based Solutions (NbS) for…
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Environmental Water Management in the Indo-Pacific: An Australian Perspective, published
A new AWP knowledge product is now available that focuses on environmental water management in the Indo-Pacific region – authored by Professor Stuart Bunn, Associate Professor Mark Kennard, and…
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