Water resources

Change story: Addressing a growing water crisis in Bolivia

Feature / Bolivia faces a deepening water crisis. SEI helped plan for the future by creating the first-ever comprehensive model of Bolivia’s rivers, lakes and streams.

Create expert water models more easily with new version of WEAP

Feature / A major update to SEI’s flagship water modelling tool enables policy-makers and researchers to more easily determine watershed boundaries and river pathways.

COASTAL

Project / COASTAL (Collaborative lAnd Sea inTegration pLatform) improves coastal-rural synergy to foster rural and coastal development while preserving the environment.

In rural Myanmar, more frequent and intense droughts are affecting local livelihoods

Feature / In the dry and arid central region of Myanmar, climate risks mean more intense and longer dry spells and frequent droughts.

Analysis of optimal thresholds for identification of open water using MODIS-derived spectral indices for two coastal wetland systems in Mexico

Journal article / This paper discusses remote sensing based approaches for mapping open water surfaces using MODIS data.

Bangalore is running out of water. How can data help find solutions?

Feature / For two years, an SEI-led team of researchers measured groundwater levels throughout the city in search of answers to Bangalore's water shortage.

Land degradation worsening climate change and undermining well-being of billions

Feature / The first comprehensive assessment of land degradation and restoration has now been launched.

How a Source to Sea programme could benefit Vietnam

Perspective / As Vietnam's growth accelerates, "Source to Sea" planning may increasingly become compatible with its future development.

Economic and climate challenges in the Mendoza wine region

SEI brief / This brief provides an overview of Argentina's Mendoza wine region and identifies its water supply challenges.