We are looking forward to 2024, when Water Cycle Innovation will continue its Scientific Programming support to UC Davis and the Water Education Foundation and partners in what will be a game breaking 3rd International Conference on ‘Toward Sustainable Groundwater in Agriculture – Linking Science and Policy, Burlingame, California, 17-20 June, 2024. Lining up some …
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A stethoscope, or thermometer, for gauging the health of groundwater systems is springs. This is because springs and oasis, natural outlets of groundwater flow, are often taletellers of groundwater depletion and even pollution, and many such environments are currently under heavy stress. The paper ‘Fellowship of the Spring: an initiative to document and protect …
Water Cycle Innovation gave significant inputs to other new and highly relevant publications on contemporary groundwater at a global to regional scale. A highly-cited Nature review paper by Scanlon et al. ‘Global water resources and the role of groundwater in a resilient water future’ critically unpacks the trends of water resources across the globe, …
Groundwater management ties closely into understanding and regulating initiatives related to groundwater use and development. Untangling economics and those policies that have economic and socioeconomic implications for groundwater is hence a must. Subsidies for developing groundwater (e.g., for drilling, energy for pumping, and for irrigation equipment), guarantied prices for crops grown with groundwater, etc. are …
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WCI Director Karen Villholth (white shirt) forming member of an advisory team to UNECE on groundwater. From left: Marie-Amélie Pétré (Geological Survey of Finland), Alberto Manganelli (CeReGAS), Alice Aureli (previous UNESCO), Shammy Puri (CSSPH), and Arnaud Sterckx (IGRAC) at the UNECE Global Workshop on Conjunctive Management of Surface Water and Groundwater: National to Transboundary …
Water Cycle Innovation (WCI) expresses its appreciation for fruitful cooperation with its partners in 2023. This year, shortly coming to an end, will be remembered for accelerated global change observed on many fronts. Climate change is no longer a prognosis. It is the world’s new reality. Groundwater focus is gaining traction at all levels as …
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Farmer applying pesticide manually in groundwater-irrigated field in Sri Lanka (Photo credit: Karen Villholth). Illegal pesticides, both clandestine as well as imported pesticides not authorized for use in developed countries, continue to be used on a large scale in developing countries, not only causing disproportionate harm due to their additional toxic characteristics, but also because …
The UN 2023 Water Conference, acclaimed as the watershed moment for raising global attention to the critical and ongoing global water crisis since the first of its kind in Mar del Plata, Argentina in 1977, was successful in raising the attention to groundwater at the highest international and political level. Several high-level side events with …
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The water community has made significant strides towards getting groundwater higher on the global development agenda. The year 2022 was particularly pivotal as the UN system, through UN-Water, and its many Member and Partner organizations, elevated the topic of ‘Groundwater – Making the Invisible Visible’ to the center of attention. This was achieved through a …
I am pleased to be candidate nominee to represent the 90,000+ members of the Danish Consumer Council ‘Tænk’ for their Council Assembly. Go ahead and vote for me on the day of election, 24 Oct 2022. My blog on Water Cycle Innovation gives my messages and pledge (in Danish). I advocate for more protection of …
