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Co-creating water knowledge (Part 1): The history and future of an interdisciplinary working group

, , and December 3, 2025
Co-creating water knowledge (Part 1): The history and future of an interdisciplinary working group

HELPING and the co-creation of a working group In 2023, the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS), inaugurated a new Scientific Decade, called HELPING – IAHS Science for Solutions decade, with Hydrology Engaging Local People IN one Global world. This third decade was established through  a bottom-up process, by investigating the interests and the urgency of  local hydrolo ...[Read More]

On finding my water temperature community

June 26, 2025
On finding my water temperature community
Credit: Maria Grundmann

Walking the halls of the EGU General Assembly 2025 a few weeks ago, I was full of child-like curiosity. Being surrounded by people doing fascinating, creative, and innovative research felt like a dream come true. New faces every day, big talks on small advances and complicated methodologies. I learned about mountain ecology and failing snow-models, and I was captured by graphs and animations ̵ ...[Read More]

Call to participate to the public consultation for the Water4All-Partnership

June 27, 2024
Call to participate to the public consultation for the Water4All-Partnership

Those of you who are active in proposal writing might know the programme Water4All Partnership – Water Security for the Planet. It is a funding programme for scientific research in freshwater with the goal to address urgent water-related challenges. The programme is co-funded by the European Union within the frame of the Horizon Europe programme (lasting until 2027) and includes 90 partners ...[Read More]

Historical evolution of water management: the example of Switzerland over 200 years

, and April 25, 2024
Historical evolution of water management: the example of Switzerland over 200 years
(source: © eawag)

How can we use and manage natural resources more sustainably? This question stands at the core of many social, political and scientific debates about how we can reach the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The targets are ambitious, and there is a growing consensus that rapid and extensive structural change is needed in various sectors simultaneously. However, how transformation ...[Read More]