Newsworthy

UNESCO 2025 photo story contest on water: 'The United Nations have declared 2025 as the International Year of Glacier Preservation and to celebrate it, UNESCO World Water Assessment Programme, Onewater and partners invite you to participate in the 2025 Walk of Water photo contest and showcase your best photo stories of water towers, mountains and glaciers.'

Downscaling and validating GLDAS groundwater storage anomalies by integrating precipitation for recharge and actual evapotranspiration for discharge - A paper on the use of integrated remote sensing data to monitor groundwater just been published in Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies. It includes Google Earth Engine code that can be applied to the region of interest

IWMI,  the University of Groningen  and the Escuela Politécnica Nacional have released an open-access database providing valuable statistics on water management and energy production in Africa - https://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/news/closing-the-african-data-gap/

Using Deep Learning to predict streamflow in South Africa - We are pleased to report that the WRO initiative has published its first scientific paper in the Journal of Hydroinformatics

Update on the El Niño 2023/2024 development and retrospective for southern Africa-  8 March 2024

The ARC has launched its new Agri-Data Web-portal ->  https://www.agroclimate.agric.za/WP/WP/ 

We recently presented at UKZN's Centre for Water Resources Research (CWRR) Research on Tap Webinar series. See the presentation here - https://youtu.be/cI1BqLiX6Lw

The Water Research Observatory featured on Euronews - https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/12/05/real-time-climate-information-in-africa

Scientists tested 12 bottled waters they bought in Pretoria. Three were toxic. (Business Insider, posted 5 January 2023)

State of the world's drinking water: An urgent call to action to accelerate progress on ensuring safe drinking water for all (WHO report, posted 31 October 2022)

Revision of the National Pricing Strategy for Water Use Charges (commentary period will expire on 18 October 2022) (posted 17 October 2022)

Proposed Revised National Water Resources Strategy (NWRS) (commentary period will expire on 27 October 2022) (posted 16 August 2022)

36th Annual Conference of the South African Society for Atmospheric Sciences (SASAS) 30 October 2022 – 01 November 2022

SSSA Kirkham Conference (Soil physics) (28 August - 2 September 2022 ), Kruger National Park (Skukuza Rest Camp), South Africa