SWP Newsletter I July 2019

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WOMEN LEAD THE FIGHT FOR WATER SECURITY

Engaging women and other marginalized groups is an important element of the USAID-funded Sustainable Water Partnership's Water Security Improvement (WSI) process. In this newsletter, read about the women spearheading the fight for water security in Cambodia's Stung Chinit Watershed.

MOTHER, FARMER, LEADER

Hard work equals hard-earned respect for Rom Sareun, the head of a Farmers Water Users Committee in the Stung Chinit Watershed.

PUTTING NEW SKILLS TO USE

In SWP trainings, Sin Phally learned new skills such as budgeting and strategies to peacefully resolve conflicts over water. Now she's leading efforts to enhance water security in her community.

SPEAKING HER MIND

For decades To Dy has led the charge in her community on issues of women’s health and empowerment for decades. Now taking part in SWP's Water Security Improvement (WSI) process in the Stung Chinit Watershed, she's taking her message to a larger audience.

WHAT WE'RE READING

Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) | Implementing the source-to-sea approach: A guide for practitioners
A new guide presents practical steps for the design and implementation of projects that can improve the management of land, freshwater, delta, estuary, coast, nearshore and ocean environments.

Land Use Policy | Land dispossessions and water appropriations: Political ecology of land and water grabs in Ghana
A new paper examines the complex interplay of land grabs and surface water appropriations in large-scale plantation agriculture in two agro-ecological zones in Ghana.

ResearchGate I Guideline: Selection, training and managing para-hydrologists
Part two of a two-part series offers guidance on the selection, training and managing of para-hydrologists to ensure the successful running of citizen science hydroclimate monitoring.

RECENT NEWS

Science | Adding 1 billion hectares of forest could help check global warming
A new analysis finds that adding nearly 1 billion hectares of forest could remove two-thirds of the roughly 300 gigatons of carbon humans have added to the atmosphere since the 1800s.

Eos | Antibiotics are flooding the earth's rivers
A global campaign to study concentrations of pharmaceuticals in the world's rivers finds the drugs can lead to drug-resistant bacteria and deadly infections.

Science X I Water-sharing experiment suggests people put their own survival first
Researchers put Canadian water managers through computerized games to see how they would react to water scarcity if given decision-making powers.