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  • Child in Mumbai slums (photo: Adobe Stock / FiledIMAGE)

    Assessing COVID-19 vulnerability and water sector interventions in the Indo-Pacific

    Posted by Zoe on 29 May 2020

    The COVID-19 pandemic has been particularly challenging in developing parts of Asia where high population densities, combined with low infrastructure capacity, make social distancing interventions near impossible. These areas…


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  • COVID-19 and Water Resources Management: Reframing our priorities as a water sector

    Posted by Zoe on 14 May 2020

    By Marian  J. Neal The water sector has an important role to play in our immediate response to COVID-19 as well as in the recovery and rebuilding phases as…


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  • Empowering village communities for a sustainable water future: $1B project launched to improve groundwater management in India

    Posted by Zoe on 19 April 2020

    The Government of India’s National Groundwater Management Improvement Program, known as Atal Bhujal Yojana (ATAL JAL), took effect on 1 April and will run for five years, having been…


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  • Helping Vietnam modernise irrigation for high-value crops

    Posted by Zoe on 17 April 2020

    A team of Australian irrigation experts visited Vietnam in March to provide technical guidance on two new initiatives implemented as a result of the Water Efficiency Improvement in…


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  • Advancing Australian groundwater expertise through the Asian Development Bank

    Posted by Zoe on 17 April 2020

    AWP’s Groundwater Specialist, Sanmugam Prathapar, will be finalising his secondment with ADB on 30 April, having played a key role in strengthening the partnership between the two organisations,…


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  • Remaining agile and responsive in a changing environment: How AWP is responding to the COVID-19 pandemic

    Posted by Zoe on 17 April 2020

    Australia has recently suffered devastating bushfires, hail, storms and floods all in the span of a few months, but there appears to be no greater challenge than the COVID-19…


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  • Outcomes from International Women’s Day and World Water Day 2020

    Posted by Zoe on 30 March 2020

    The theme for this year’s UN World Water Day (22 March) was about water and climate change, and how the two are inextricably linked. Clean,…


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  • Kitlang Kabua elected as Marshall Islands MP: AWP Program helping to build the next generation of water leaders

    Posted by Zoe on 28 February 2020

    Former Australian Water Partnership Young Water Professional (YWP) Kitlang Kabua has been elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) in the Marshall Islands. At 28 years old, Ms Kabua is…


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  • Working towards Gender Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion

    Posted by Zoe on 28 February 2020

    The Australian Water Partnership (AWP) has accelerated its commitment to Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) by undertaking a policy review and incorporating better disability inclusion to address…


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  • Framework for establishing environmental flows in the Ayeyarwady

    Posted by Zoe on 28 February 2020

    The Australian Water Partnership (AWP) is supporting an Environmental Flows (e-flows) project in Myanmar’s Ayeyarwady River Basin (ARB), with the objective of developing an e-flows policy framework for its…


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