Surf and Turf: Studying Land to Help Protect Reefs
As farmland increases in Belize, more and more sediment and agricultural runoff is making its way into the country's rivers and eventually into the sea — where it reaches the Belize Barrier Reef.
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As farmland increases in Belize, more and more sediment and agricultural runoff is making its way into the country's rivers and eventually into the sea — where it reaches the Belize Barrier Reef.
Through the Improving the Mekong River Commission's (MRC) Regional Flood Forecasting Service, SERVIR Mekong supported the MRC to use new-generation satellite-derived precipitation products to increase flood forecast accuracy.
Densely populated communities living along low-lying deltas in Southeast Asia are dependent on the underground water stores these deltas provide for their livelihoods. Read about recent SERVIR activities toward helping this region use NASA's publicly available satellite data to support decision making on water resources issues.
The Mekong River Commission (MRC) is an intergovernmental organization that provides coordination and technical input on flood management to the members of the Lower Mekong countries including Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand, and Vietnam.
SERVIR-Mekong conducted a joint training 3-4 August 2017 with SERVIR Applied Sciences Team members Hyongki Lee and Faisal Hossain for officials from the Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology (MOWRAM) of Cambodia.
Earth Magazine recently featured an article on SERVIR, highlighting the program and in particular several activities of the SERVIR-Mekong hub, which is based at ADPC in Bangkok, Thailand.
On March 8 to 9 SERVIR-Mekong organized a final workshop for the Small Grants Program, a 10-month program that supported organizations and institutions that use Earth observations to address environmental management challenges in the Mekong Region.
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.
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.
Lower Mekong countries suffer from the effects of seasonal flooding and flash flooding caused by monsoon rains and tropical storms. Regional and national level organizations and agencies require a range of information, forecasts, and decision-support tools to better prepare for, monitor, issue warnings, and respond to flood risk.