Auteur: Martijn
1 mei 2015
Earthquake Nepal: Post-event risk and impact assessments
The magnitude 7.8 Gorkha earthquake that struck Nepal on April 25, 2015, caused extensive damage in Kathmandu Valley and severely affected Nepal’s rural areas. The Langtang Valley in the Rasuwa district was particularly hard hit, as became apparent after pictures taken by a rescue helicopter mission on April 26 (link). Numerous tourists and Nepali were,...
29 januari 2015
Spatial Processes in Hydrology (SPHY) model website online
Sinds 2011 ontwikkelt FutureWater het Spatial Processes in Hydrology (SPHY) model: een ruimtelijk gedistribueerd hydrologisch model dat gebruikt wordt in tal van toepassingen binnen Nederland en wereldwijd. SPHY wordt succesvol gebruikt in veel van onze projecten waaronder impact-studies voor klimaatverandering, water en energie toepassingen, irrigatiebeheer en operationele diensten. Voor het SPHY model is een nieuwe...
1 oktober 2014
Final WatPlaG seminars in Beira and Maputo, Mozambique
During the week of 15-19 September the WatPlaG consortium, consisting of ARA-Centro, FutureWater, Waterschap Hunze en Aa’s, UNESCO-IHE, and WE-Consult, held its final project seminars in Beira and Maputo. The WatPlaG project’s goal was to demonstrate the Netherlands Water Governance system to ARA-Centro (waterboard) in Mozambique. The actual activities of this project were to introduce,...
6 juni 2014
The Third Eye: Flying Sensors to Support Farmers’ Decision Making
FutureWater is pleased to announce that we are one of the 39 finalists that were approved to conduct an innovative project for “Securing Water For Food: A Grand Challenge For Development”. The “Securing Water For Food” challenge was launched in 2013 at the World Water Week in Stockholm. This challenge is supported by the United...
2 juni 2014
Increasing precipitation and glacier melt keep Asia’s rivers flowing. Continued water supply from the Himalayas in the coming decades.
A study from FutureWater, Utrecht University and the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) suggests that despite retreating glaciers, the amount of water supplied by the Himalayan mountains will increase in the coming decades. Their findings were published in Nature Climate Change on 1 June. Glacier- and snowmelt contribute water to ten important river...
5 december 2013
A successful expedition with Flying Sensors (UAVs) in the Himalayas
HiView and FutureWater recently contributed to a successful expedition to the Nepalese Himalayas. This was the second mission after October and repeat flights were conducted with an Unmanned Aerial Survey System on large glacier. Based on this second mission it will now be possible to compare the situation in May with October and based on...
1 december 2013
One year successful piloting with Flying Sensors (UAVs)
FutureWater celebrates one year successful piloting with Flying Sensors with its development partners HiView, Utrecht University, and ICIMOD. Flying Sensors, sometime referred to as UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles), can be considered as the third generation remote sensing. First generation remote sensing was done from manned airplanes, which is very costly and requires substantial preparation time...
21 november 2013
Peter Droogers’ scientific work highly cited (h-index of 20)
FutureWater’s scientific director Peter Droogers has reached the level to be amongst one of the highly cited scientists. His h-index has reached to a level of 20, which brings him to the top 10% researchers in terms of publications and citations. Peter has published in total 60 scientific publications and his work was cited in...
24 oktober 2013
WatPlaG seminars in Chimoio and Beira, Mozambique
During the week of 30 September through 4 October, the WatPlaG consortium (FutureWater, Waterschap Hunze and Aa’s, UNESCO-IHE, and WE-consult) visited Chimoio and Beira for two seminars, and hands-on training in using the WEAP model. This WatPlaG project mission started with a general project discussion on Monday at ARA-Centro, Beira. For the remainder of the...
17 oktober 2013
Participation in a short scientific mission in the Colorado River Basin, Argentina
FutureWater staff Sergio Contreras has just started a Short Term Scientific Mission in Argentina taking place from the 16th to the 31st of October 2013. The mission aims to provide insight on the water balance in the middle section of the Colorado River Basin. An intense conversion of native ecosystems into irrigated agriculture is expected...
