Groundwater and Human Security (GWAHS-CS)

  • Project details

  • Implementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
    UNU, UNESCO
    Summary:
    Project Components:

    The GWAHS-CS project was launched by UNU-EHS, UNESCO-IHP (International Hydrological Programme of UNESCO) and UNU-INWEH (International Network on Water, Environment and Health) to study the relationship between groundwater (both as an opportunity and a threat) and human security. The UN-Water Programme on Capacity Development later joined the initiative.

    Expected Outputs:

    The overall objective of the project is to address the threats to human security and well-being currently posed by water scarcity and water quality degradation in developing countries and the role of groundwater management and protection in alleviating such threats.

    The main objective of the research project is to adapt and apply vulnerability assessment methods to determine the vulnerability of communities who face freshwater supply problems, with an emphasis on groundwater. Groundwater can play a major positive role for the livelihoods of communities facing water supply shortages but can also be a threat when the resource becomes degraded.

    Contacts:

    Dr Fabrice Renaud
    Tel.: + 49-228-815-0211
    e-mail: renaud@ehs.unu.edu

    Project Status:
    Under implementation
    Project Details
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Groundwater Resources Assessment under the Pressures of Humanity and Climate Change (GRAPHIC)

  • Project details

  • Implementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
    UNESCO, IGRAC, GWSP
    Summary:

    Groundwater is an essential part of the hydrologic cycle and a valuable natural resource. More than 1.5 billion people worldwide rely on groundwater for their primary source of drinking water. In many countries groundwater is also important for sustaining agriculture, industrial uses, streams, lakes, wetlands, and ecosystems. The use of groundwater has particular relevance to the availability of clean drinking water supplies.

    Project Components:

    GRAPHIC is a UNESCO-led project, seeking to improve our understanding of how groundwater interacts within the global water cycle, how it supports ecosystems and humankind and, in turn, responds to complex and coupled pressures of human activity and climate change.GRAPHIC was developed to successfully achieve these objectives within a global context and represents a collaborative effort that serves as an umbrella for international research and education.

    Through a variety of case studies, GRAPHIC outlines areas of international research, covering major geographical regions, groundwater resource topics, and methods to help advance the knowledge required to address both the scientific and social aspects of this field.

    Expected Outputs:

    The project will not only provide a better understanding of the functioning and change of groundwater resources under the pressures of humanity and climate changes, but also address scenarios and future developments for regional scales to the global groundwater assessment and synthesis effort.

    Products will include:
    **1.** Database of the magnitude of changes in groundwater resources,
    **2.** Methodology for evaluating groundwater resources due to climate change and human impacts;
    **3.** Regional synthesis for evaluation in the global network;
    **4.** Protocols for integrated assessment, modeling and forecasting for dissemination in training workshops.

    Contacts:

    Makoto Taniguchi
    Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
    Japan
    makoto@chikyu.ac.jp

    Project Status:
    Under implementation
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Gabon - National Communication

Submitted by andrea on Fri, 2009-06-19 20:43
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Summary:
Key Vulnerabilities
  • Agriculture/Food Security
  • Coastal Zones and Marine Ecosystems
  • Water Resources
  • Public Health
Potential Adaptation Measures

Agriculture and Food Security

  • Educational & outreach activities to change management practices to those suited to climate change
  • Enhance irrigation efficiency and/or expand irrigation
  • Develop and introduce policy measures, including taxes, subsidies, facilitation of free market

Water Resources

  • Increase water supply, e.g.

Eritrea - National Communication

Submitted by andrea on Fri, 2009-06-19 20:38
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Summary:
Key Vulnerabilities
  • Public Health
Potential Adaptation Measures

Agriculture and Food Security

  • Educational & outreach activities to change management practices to those suited to climate change
  • Develop and introduce policy measures, including taxes, subsidies, facilitation of free market
  • Develop early warning systems and disaster preparedness

Water Resources

  • Increase water supply, e.g.

El Salvador - National Communication

Submitted by andrea on Fri, 2009-06-19 20:37
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Summary:
Key Vulnerabilities
  • Agriculture/Food Security
  • Coastal Zones and Marine Ecosystems
Potential Adaptation Measures

Agriculture and Food Security

  • Educational & outreach activities to change management practices to those suited to climate change
  • Switch to different cultivars
  • Improve and conserve soils
  • Develop new crops
  • Develop and introduce policy measures, including taxes, subsidies, facilitation of free market
  • Develop early warning systems and disaster preparedness

Water Resources

  • Increase water supply, e.g.

Comoros - National Communication

Submitted by andrea on Fri, 2009-06-19 20:22
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Summary:
Key Vulnerabilities
  • Agriculture/Food Security
  • Coastal Zones and Marine Ecosystems
  • Water Resources
  • Public Health
Potential Adaptation Measures

Agriculture and Food Security

  • Educational & outreach activities to change management practices to those suited to climate change
  • Switch to different cultivars
  • Improve and conserve soils
  • Enhance irrigation efficiency and/or expand irrigation
  • Improve pest and disease forecast and control

Water Resources

  • Increase water supply, e.g.

Bahamas - National Communication

Submitted by andrea on Fri, 2009-06-19 19:57
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Summary:

Key Vulnerabilities

  • Agriculture/Food Security
  • Coastal Zones and Marine Ecosystems
  • Water Resources
  • Public Health
  • Fisheries
  • Disasters
  • Tourism

Potential Adaptation Measures

Water Resources

  • Increase water supply, e.g. by using groundwater, building reservoirs, improving or stabilizing watershed management, desalination
  • Decrease water demands, e.g. by increasing efficiency, reducing water losses, water recycling, changing irrigation practices
  • Improve or develop water management
  • Alter system operating rules, e.g.

Armenia - National Communication

Submitted by andrea on Fri, 2009-06-19 19:53
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Summary:

Key Vulnerabilities

  • Agriculture/Food Security
  • Water Resources
  • Public Health
  • Wildlife

Potential Adaptation Measures

Agriculture and Food Security

  • Educational & outreach activities to change management practices to those suited to climate change
  • Switch to different cultivars
  • Enhance irrigation efficiency and/or expand irrigation
  • Establish seed banks

Water Resources

  • Increase water supply, e.g. by using groundwater, building reservoirs, improving or stabilizing watershed management, desalination
  • Decrease water demands, e.g.