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