RCMRD/SERVIR-Eastern and Southern Africa water quality workshop
SERVIR E&SA gave a workshop to teach basic skills to work with satellite remote sensing data for water quality assessments in Lake Victoria.
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SERVIR E&SA gave a workshop to teach basic skills to work with satellite remote sensing data for water quality assessments in Lake Victoria.
Agriculture is the backbone of economies in East African countries such as Tanzania. To succeed they need more information about droughts and dry spells, yet getting that information to farmers remains a challenge.
In the near future, NASA and CNES, the French space agency, will debut a new satellite that many researchers believe could be a game changer in understanding and managing Earth's greatest resource: water.
Some new international guests were seen around the SERVIR coordination office in Huntsville, Alabama, in early June 2015.
|Rachel Gaal, technical writing intern for SERVIR
The Supporting Water Resources Management in Vietnam Service supported national agencies in assessing the impacts of climate change and basin development on water availability through a web-based integrated water resources model for basin management.
With its economy based largely on agriculture, water is a critical resource for Pakistan, which is why they are using data from NASA’s GRACE mission to monitor groundwater storage in the Indus Basin.
Remote districts of Western Nepal are experiencing what some claim is their worst drought in 40 years. Analyses prepared by the International Center for Integrated Mountain Development are helping the Government of Nepal evaluate the situation and make critical decisions about how to respond.
Research from a SERVIR Applied Sciences Team and from scientists at the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) guided a UNDP-funded project that informed Nepali officials' decision to lower the water level in potentially dangerous Imja Lake.
With floods and droughts as two of the most catastrophic natural disasters in the regions it serves, SERVIR strives to be on the cutting edge in addressing challenges related to water.
E-link Consult Limited is an environmental consultancy firm based in Tanzania with experience in natural resources assessment and management, socioeconomic analysis, forestry assessment, agriculture, food security, livelihoods analysis, and climate change adaptation and mitigation.