Articles & Stories Cambodian Youth Learn and Connect Geospatial Pieces For a second year, the SERVIR-Mekong program held an exhibition booth as part of the U.S. Government pavilion at Cambodia’s Science and Engineering Festival Exposition and Workshop (CSEF). February 28, 2019
Articles & Stories Monitoring Rainfall and Water Levels from Space In recent years, weather-related disasters such as floods and storms have become frequent in the Lower Mekong Region. According to the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, from 1995 to 2015, almost half of all the disasters across the globe were floods, which affected 2.3 billion people. The majority of these events occurred in Asia. December 13, 2018
Articles & Stories Improving Drought Resilience and Water Resource Management in Vietnam From 2014 to 2016, Vietnam experienced its worst drought in 90 years, with 52 out of the 63 provinces affected. This event and subsequent disasters emphasized the need for a reliable system that can provide forecast information about rainfall and drought. October 5, 2018
Articles & Stories Water Resources and Hydroclimatic Disasters Service Area SERVIR hubs are at the forefront in developing high-quality water information, tools, products, and services that enable partner countries to monitor, measure, and report on water resources and changes, and to better predict and manage water-related disasters. August 28, 2018
Articles & Stories Mainstreaming Gender in Drought Forecasting Vietnam experienced one of its worst droughts in almost a century from 2015 to 2016, affecting over 2 million people in 52 provinces nationwide. Ninh Thuan, a province in south central Vietnam with a population of just over 600,000, was severely affected. August 11, 2018