Water as a global resource - GRoW

Water as a global resource - GRoW

As a contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations (in particular SDG 6 - Water and Sanitation), the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) initiated the funding measure "Global Resource Water" (GRoW). In the main phase, 12 research consortia and one networking and transfer project with a total of more than 300 people from science, industry and practice conducted research and collaborated in case study areas around the world. The guiding principle of the funding measure is to link global analyses with local approaches to solutions. An integrated perspective was chosen to look at the complex reality of sustainable water management with its cross-connections to the thematic complexes of energy, food security, ecosystems and climate change.

GRoW

Follow-up project OUTLAST

Follow-up project SPS-Blue Nile

Press releases & News

SaWaM will be presented at COP24

Between the 3rd and 14th of December the 24th Climate Change Conference (COP24) will be held in Katowice, Poland. Delegates from 197 countries will come together to discuss and jointly work on progres in the battle against climate change. GRoW will be represented by Dr Lorenz and Prof Kunstmann

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7th Africa Water Week stresses importance of joining force with multiple stakeholders

From 29th October to 2nd November the 7th African water week was held in Libreville, Gabon, South Africa. 1000 participants from governments, regional institutions, international partners, the private sector, the scientific community and civil society discussed different approaches to achieve Water

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Second workshop on the cross-cutting topic “Incentive mechanisms in the context of governance”

On 22 October, the working group on the cross-cutting topic “Incentive mechanisms in the context of governance” met in Frankfurt to continue its work on key issues identified at its first meeting earlier this year.

At that meeting, which took place in March 2018, the group identified three sub

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SPS Blue Nile: International Project Workshop and Technical Training on Seasonal Forecasting in Nairobi, Kenya

From February 19 to 21, 2025, the SPS Blue Nile project team, in collaboration with the IGAD Climate Prediction and Application Centre (ICPAC), conducted a combined project and technical training workshop in Nairobi, Kenya. The event welcomed 17 experts from weather services, ministries, and

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SPS Blue Nile Team conducted a training workshop on Earth System Modelling

From June 24 to 28, 2024, members of the SPS Blue Nile Team at KIT, in close cooperation with the Centre for Climate Resilience and the Institute of Geography at the University of Augsburg, conducted a training workshop on Earth System Modelling using the WRF-Hydro Modelling System in Addis Ababa

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KIT and ICPAC share climate forecasts for upcoming rainy season with countries in the Greater Horn of Africa

SPS Blue Nile partners, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and the IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (ICPAC), presented forecasts for the June-September rainy season at the climate prediction development workshop preceding this year’s Greater Horn of Africa Climate Outlook Forum (GHACOF

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Water as a global resource

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