Dar Es Salaam: Participatory modelling of floods using community mapped OpenStreetMap data

Urban resilience

The OpenStreetMap platform offers a user-friendly and open database to digitize mapped data. It enables any community member able to handle a computer to map the city, and as a consequence, community mapping efforts are…

MARS: The Importance of Groundwater in Multi-stressed Aquatic Ecosystems

Understanding systems: from river basin to coastal zones

The Status of Europe’s Surface Waters In 2015, only about half of Europe’s surface waters had the ecological status of ‘good’. Much effort is being made to reach the Water Framework Directive goal to have…

Health in the Upper Citarum catchment

Human health needs knowledge about water and the subsurface

The Upper Citarum catchment area is an area of roughly 100 × 100 km. It is home to 8 million people. The catchment is undergoing rapid urbanisation and the population density is high. This is…

Adelaide Receiving Environment Model (AREM)

Monitoring and modelling of ecosystems

Since the 1950s, seagrass has been disappearing from Adelaide’s coastal waters in the Gulf St Vincent, South Australia. Seagrass meadows are an important habitat and food source for a range of marine species, including commercially…

Innovative technologies for enhancing Dam Safety and Water Management in India

Dikes, levees and dams

Multi-purpose water reservoirs and dams play a major role for water supply, irrigation and flood protection in India. In order to ensure long-term operation and safety of the dams, adaptation planning, maintenance, repair and retrofitting…

Quantifying the long-term effects of human interventions on estuarine sediment concentration

Understanding systems: from river basin to coastal zones

Introduction Many estuaries worldwide have been modified in the past decades to centuries, for example by reclaiming land or to allow ever larger ship access to inland waterways. These human interventions often lead to higher…

Water availability in second phase of Delta Programme

Participatory information systems for water security

The Netherlands is facing major challenges associated with climate change. Sea levels are rising and our rivers need to discharge more water. At the same time, the climate is getting warmer and drier. That has…

Ocean modelling and Early-Warning System for the Gulf of Thailand

Asia

Storm surges associated with severe tropical cyclones are among the most hazardous and damaging natural disasters to coastal areas. The Gulf of Thailand (GoT) has been periodically affected by typhoon induced storm surges in the…

Quickscan microplastics sources

Tackling plastic soup

An approach was developed with the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment and Rijkswaterstaat for the Ministry of Infrastructure & the Environment to prioritise the various possible sources of microplastics. Because there is…

Micro

Tackling plastic soup

The MICRO project is studying the amount and impact of microplastics in the North Sea, the English Channel and the France-Manche area. Transport models have been developed for predicting hotspots in marine waters and sediment….