Managing water resources systems usually involves conflicts. Behaviors of stakeholders, who might be willing to contribute to improvements and reach a win–win situation, sometimes result in worse conditions for all parties. Game theory can identify and interpret the behaviors of parties to water resource problems and describe how interactions of different parties who give priority to their own ob ... read more >>

“Unsustainable development has increased the country’s water demand to a maximum level, causing the water level of underground resources sink to its lowest level – from 50 meters to 300 meters,” according to the general director of Iran’s Meteorological Organization, Parviz Rezazadeh. According to an Iranian report from 2008, “per capita water quota will be below 1,000 cubic meters by 2050.” Ira ... read more >>

Water Number: 2.6 billion people. In a new report released this week by WHO/UNICEF's Joint Monitoring Programme, it is estimated that 2.6 billion people still lack access to adequate sanitation services and 1.1 billion must still practice "open defecation" (a polite term for a demeaning practice), like those in Kibera. This number is virtually unchanged from past assessments as population growth ... read more >>

We are pleased to announce the publication of the inaugural issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441), a new international, peer-reviewed Open Access journal on water science and technology, including the ecology and management of water resources. Water is published by MDPI online quarterly. ... read more >>

Originally published in 1979, The California Water Atlas, a monument of 20th century cartographic publishing, has been scanned and put online for free public access by the David Rumsey Map Collection. Linda Vida, Director of The Water Resources Center Archives of the University of California asked David Rumsey and Cartography Associates to scan and make available to the public this extraordinary ... read more >>

The Russian military allegedly dumped nuclear waste into the Baltic Sea in the early 1990s, according to a report on Swedish television.

Radioactive material from a military base in Latvia is thought to have been thrown into Swedish waters.

For many the biggest shock is that the Swedish government may have known at the time and done nothing about it.

The partly enclosed Baltic Sea is kno ... read more >>

Researchers from the University of Queensland (UQ) have developed Australia's first water-education resource website to increase water and sustainability awareness. The Toolkit will assist teachers and schools across Australia to access national, state, territory, regional and urban water resources.

Created out of a need to consolidate the vast amount of water education material available on ... read more >>

What, you're asking, is the Hydro 2.0 Social Calendar? It's a calendar, based on the water year, of course, with the following raison d'être:

Water resources scientists and engineers need practical tools to effectively communicate their work to a broad audience and to stay informed with ongoing political, scientific, and technical developments in the water arena. The World Wide Web and mobile ... read more >>