G-WADI - Water And Development Information for Arid Lands

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G-WADI centers:

  • Regional Centre on Urban Water Management (Tehran, Iran)

   • Regional Centre for Training and Water Studies of Arid and Semiarid Zones (Cairo, Egypt)

  • Water Centre for Arid and Semi-arid Regions of Latin America and the Caribbean

   • UNESCO IHE Institute for Water Education (Delft, Netherlands)

   • SAHRA - Sustainability of semi-Arid Hydrology and Riparian Areas

   • Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing (CHRS)

Asian G-WADI

  Educational resources

   • GLOBE
   • Project WET
   • SAHRA Education

G-WADI's mission is to strengthen the capacity to manage the water resources of arid and semi-arid areas around the globe through a network of international and regional cooperation.

Summary report of the Tunis side event, "Hydrological changes in semi-arid and arid areas under climatic and human influences: focus on the Mediterranean region"

International Conference on "Water, Environment, Energy, and Society (WEES)-2007 " (Roorkee, India, 18 - 21 December 2006)

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The effects of desertficiation are evident in this photo, taken in Senegal in the area of the Senegal River credit: Roger, Dominique

Aridity means more than inadequate rainfall. It means inadequate streams, lakes and springs. It means underground water that, in some places, is irreplaceable within any human time frame.

- Wallace Stegnar