• Mountain meltdown
• CEA partners with IWMI to turn organic waste into high-quality fertilizer
• Pond, tank or well?
• NationalGeographic.com: Small-scale Irrigation Boosts Incomes and Food Security in sub-Saharan Africa
• SciDev.net: West Africa 'must take action to tackle water loss'
• CRI to address climate change impacts in Sri Lanka

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Mountain meltdown

How much global warming can the world's glaciers take? The huge glaciers in the Himalayan mountain system are often called the "water towers of Asia". These immense reservoirs feed the rivers that feed the world's most populated continent.

CEA partners with IWMI to turn organic waste into high-quality fertilizer

Colombo.25 July 2013. At the request of the Central Environmental Authority (CEA), the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) signed an agreement to collaborate towards Resource Recovery and Reuse in Sri Lanka. IWMI and CEA join hands in targeting two main challenges that Sri Lanka is currently facing: Urban waste management; and the need to increase farmers' access to organic fertilizers. Wimalasena Rubasinghe, Chairman, CEA, and Jeremy Bird, Director General, IWMI, were the signatories to the agreement on July 19, 2013.

Pond, tank or well?

People not just places determine the right choice for agricultural water storage in Africa The Africa Agriculture Science Week (AASW) convened by the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) and hosted by the Government of Ghana is taking place in Accra this week under the theme "Africa feeding Africa through agricultural science and innovation".

NationalGeographic.com: Small-scale Irrigation Boosts Incomes and Food Security in sub-Saharan Africa

A study by the International Water Management Institute, based in Sri Lanka, estimates that small motorized pumps could expand irrigation by some 30 million hectares in sub-Saharan Africa (a four-fold increase over the current area), generate annual net revenues of $22 billion, and improve food security and incomes for some 185 million people.

SciDev.net: West Africa 'must take action to tackle water loss'

A team of researchers — comprising agronomists, climatologists and social scientists, including those from IWMI — say that water flow in the Volta region could fall by 24 per cent by 2050 and by 45 per cent by 2100. This would deprive the basin of water that countries depend on for driving hydroelectric turbines and farming.

CRI to address climate change impacts in Sri Lanka

The Coconut Research Institute organized an "International Conference on Climate Change Impacts and Adaptations for Food and Environmental Security" in partnership with the Ministry of Environment and Renewable Energy, and the Regional Office of the World Agroforestry Centre, New Delhi, India, from 30th to 31st July 2013.