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  • Gender and ethnicity in planning sustainable groundwater management in Lao PDR

    Posted by Zoe on 19 October 2022

    Groundwater is a strategic resource for building climate resilience, boosting agriculture and improving the health and livelihoods of rural communities. Since 2021 the Australian Water Partnership has been supporting…


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  • Urban greening and cooling in response to increasing surface temperatures and water scarcity

    Posted by Zoe on 18 October 2022

    The 2021 Report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC AR6) found that climate hazards are posing an increased risk to the degradation of ecosystems,…


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  • Political economy of water sector in Pacific Island Countries

    Posted by Zoe on 8 September 2022

    By Milika Sobey, The Asia Foundation In a region of water abundance, why can’t people access clean, safe water? In the Pacific Islands, only 55% of people have…


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  • Innovation Space: Weir

    Posted by Zoe on 22 August 2022

    Weir is a new project by AWP Partner, Tracey Benson from Treecreate which will be presented at the Aotearoa Digital Arts Symposium in Nelson,  New Zealand from…


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  • Coordinating flows in the Mekong: Pilot design in the Nam Ngum Basin (Lao PDR)

    Posted by Zoe on 22 August 2022

    In the Greater Mekong Basin, there has been acceleration of hydropower and other reservoir development over the last 10 years, which is projected to continue. Total installed capacity (in…


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  • Blog: Reflections on climate action – power through collaboration

    Posted by Zoe on 22 August 2022

    An opinion piece by Lucía Gamarra Let’s get real, people! At  the Climate Action Network Australia (CANA) conference in June 2022 environmental and climate-change action-oriented organisations gathered in Ngunnawal…


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  • Assessing the Climate Change Readiness of Pacific Island Water and Sanitation Utilities

    Posted by Zoe on 19 August 2022

    Pacific Island countries have significant gaps in access to water and sanitation. Data collected by the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Program in 2017 shows that access to safely managed or…


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  • Why we need to talk about climate when we talk about water

    Posted by Zoe on 19 August 2022

    Climate change is threatening water security as we experience changes in the water cycle, including floods and droughts. At the same time, water systems such as permafrost and wetlands…


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  • Reducing disaster risk in the Pacific

    Posted by Zoe on 19 August 2022

    A partnership between the Pacific Community (SPC) and the Australian Water Partnership (AWP) is working towards a climate-resilient Pacific by increasing surface water hydrology capacity with a focus on…


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  • Pumped Storage Hydropower – an electricity storage solution

    Posted by Zoe on 19 August 2022

    With renewable-based electricity generation costs now lower than fossil fuel-based generation, and greater awareness of the need to reduce carbon emissions, the issue of electrical energy storage is increasingly…


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