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🦋 Can't get enough of our groundwater updates? IGRAC is now also active on #Bluesky. 👉 https://lnkd.in/dEW63BCH #follow Bluesky Social #blueskysocial #groundwater #socialmedia

📣 #Vote for Groundwater Story of the Year 2024 People's Choice Award 👇 With the end of 2024 quickly approaching, it is high time to declare the winner of the Story of the Year Award 2024. The correspondents can win two awards, namely the #JuryAward and the #People’sChoice Award. And for the latter we start the voting process today! The following stories are in the running for the award: 🇩🇿 Algeria | Zoubida NEMER | “The foggara of Adrar” 🇦🇷 Argentina | Veronica Lutri | “Rocky road or fluid path: women in geological sciences” 🇧🇷 Brazil | Davi Cardoso | “Water that keeps tradition alive” 🇨🇲 Cameroon | Elvis Kang | “Cameroon’s humanitarion fallout” 🇨🇩 DR Congo | Jonas Kiriko | “Combating gender-violence with groundwater” 🇫🇷 France | Mélanie Erostate | “Balancing act in World’s capital of wine”  🇰🇪 Kenya | Etukutan Peter | “Turkana’s silent struggle: battling the effects of fluoride” 🇳🇱 Netherlands | Jakob Ollivier de Leth | “Give the future a voice in the Dutch water sector” 🇺🇬 Uganda | Aijuka Andrew | “Drilling towards a better life” Vote here: 🔗 https://lnkd.in/daVmgKTh

🌍 UNECE publication on transboundary basin data-sharing is now available online. This report, with IGRAC contribution, includes 20 (!) #casestudies 👇 📊 The recently published ‘Good Practices and Lessons Learned in Data-sharing in Transboundary Basins’ presents a global collection of case studies related to different aspects of data and information sharing in transboundary basins and aquifers, building on real-life experiences across all levels: 🔗 https://lnkd.in/diPgqBbX 🤝 It was prepared by the Water Convention/Protocol on Water & Health, hosted by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (#UNECE), with contributions from IGRAC and several other international experts. #download #report #publication #datascience Arnaud Sterckx

📣 #EGU2025 #CallForAbstracts👇 🌍 In PICO session HS 2.5.4: From Observations to Action, we aim to show ideas, concepts, efforts and challenges in developing data products as well as demonstrating the benefit of setting up, maintaining networks, and sharing data in order to support the data acquisition ambitions of data centres. 📄 Do you want to contribute to this session? Submit your abstract by January 15, 2025, 13:00 CET! 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dQwV_36D Tunde Olarinoye, Claudia Ruz Vargas, Claudia Färber, Moritz Heinle, Stephan Dietrich, World Meteorological Organization, European Geosciences Union (EGU) #data #action #hydrology #AbstractSubmission #water #climate #egu25

💧Today exactly 106 years ago #WWI came to an end, but unexploded missiles are still affecting the French people now. #Groundwater #Pollution 👇 🕊️ Although the #armistice of 11 November 1918 ended the #GreatWar, the repercussions of this war are still making victims around the old battlefields. However, this time the enemy is not hidden within the trenches, but below the surface. And it was so well-hidden that it wasn’t detected until 2009, when the emerging contaminant #perchlorate showed up in tests of municipal drinking water. Read the story by Stefan Siepman, based on the research of Feifei CAO: https://lnkd.in/dxuUwp6f. #ArmisticeDay #ArmisticeDay2024 #France #remembrance #LestWeForget #OTD #WW1 #history #RememberanceDay2024 #water #contamination #waterquality

📸 Join the photo story contest from our friends of Onewater! Besides recognition and an international platform, you may even win price money👇

🇲🇦 Exchanging water assessment knowledge in #Morocco 🤝 The Moroccan city of #Rabat was the scene for the scientific day on the assessment of water resources in the context of climate change. This event, organised by the Ministère de l'Equipement et de l'Eau of Morocco, brought together the Morrocan water sector, national government and several international experts in the field of water and groundwater. Among those was also IGRAC Director Elisabeth Lictevout. Curious about her talk? Read more here: https://lnkd.in/dXjmtTnP. #groundwater World Meteorological Organization #datascience #assessment Dominique Bérod

📣 For the #groundwater modellers! An interesting Lecturer position and our in-house partner IHE Delft Institute for Water Education.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐞𝐝𝐠𝐞 & 𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 🌍💧 Over 100 commitments on the #WaterActionAgenda involve Dutch stakeholders who are contributing their expertise to advance global water solutions and inspire action. The following four commitments are already yielding positive results. 🔹𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐬 & 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬 📘🌐 The Global Water Education Network (GWEN) is a collaborative initiative that expands capacity and shares water management knowledge.  💬 “We have received enthusiastic response from prospective partners and donors who have provided inputs on how GWEN could support their agendas, and have prepared an implementation plan that will include quick wins for all interested and financially contributing parties.” | Gaetano Casale, IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, GWEN’s coordinator 🔹𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 ℹ 🚰 Akvo is deploying its expertise to enhance decision-making in the water sector to ensure access to reliable, timely data for effective water resource allocation, #WASH services and #ClimateResilience. 💬 “Through its involvement in a USAID-funded programme, Akvo will engage in WASH data sharing and analytics across 22 countries, accelerating our commitment in more countries than initially planned.” | Emeline Bereziat, water lead at Akvo. 🔹𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐭𝐬 ℹ 📈 The International Groundwater Resources Assessment Centre (IGRAC) leads this commitment to address the critical need for transparent and accessible groundwater data. 💬 "We are investing time to engage with countries, and we see a growing interest to share groundwater data. This is very promising. And, of course, this is not just about data sharing but also about supporting them to analyse the data and report on the status of the groundwater resources. This is a win-win initiative."  | Elisabeth Lictevout, IGRAC's Director 🔹𝐄𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧 👩 💪 This commitment, led by Women for Water Partnership (WfWP), promotes gender-sensitive budgeting, vocational training for women in water-related fields, and aims to enhance access to critical resources such as financing and land rights. Throughout 2024, WfWP has worked on developing additional training resources to enhance the commitment, and has continued fundraising efforts to further strengthen women’s roles in water governance worldwide. Learn more about these commitments on Dutchwatersector.com: https://lnkd.in/eARGzBFH.

📣 October has been a special and eventful month for IGRAC 👇 📊 After a well-received pilot last year, in which IGRAC contributed to the addition of groundwater levels data to the State of Global Water Resources 2022 report, our team (and Elie Gerges in particular) increased efforts to expand the number of countries included for the 2023 edition. From 10 countries last year, we went to 40 (!) this year. #WMOreport World Meteorological Organization 🇼🇸 Our Director Elisabeth Lictevout conducted a 2-week field research, together with the local stakeholders, in #Samoa. #SIDS #monitoring 🇲🇦 She also gave a talk as one of the invited international experts during a Scientific Day in #Rabat, #Morocco. #groundwater #climatechange 🇨🇭 And finally, our Senior Groundwater Specialist Arnaud Sterckx contributed to three different sessions at the annual IAH - International Association of Hydrogeologists Congress, this year taking place in #Davos, #Switzerland. #IAH2024 #IAHcongress #Newsletter #UndergroundUpdate #SDG6 #ClimateAction Claudia Ruz Vargas Feifei CAO Dominique Bérod Raphaëlle Aubert