This platform serves to share information and experiences on water allocation planning.

Deelnemers maken in deze training kennis met de Water Footprint evaluatie methode, krijgen een introductie in het functioneren van het Nederlandse watersysteem en van het watersysteem in de regio Nijmegen.

Water users depend on the availability of groundwater and surface water in sufficient quantities and of good quality for their domestic, agricultural and industrial activities. Water resources managers need practical hydrogeologic knowledge and accurate information for making decisions on water allocation, to determine if resources are used in a sustainable way and to guarantee that ecological flows can be maintained. Quantifying hydrological processes is challenging, however, because of the difficulties associated with reliably measuring water fluxes and availability under field conditions. With respect to the evaluation of groundwater resources, understanding of geological and hydrological systems is needed to design an optimal monitoring network, to quantify recharge rates, and to determine flow  patterns, sustainability and water quality risks. The course on applied hydrogeology and groundwater resource management aims to provide practical knowledge to water resources planners and is given by staff experienced in the exploration, assessment, quantification and management of water resources.

This course provides the background for working with a surface water model to obtain simulations of discharge, sediment, nutrients and pesticide fluxes. The models used are SWAT and SWAT+.

The main objective of this course is to provide knowledge and practical skills such that the staff of the Rift Valley Lakes Basin Development Office can operate a hydrological monitoring network that will provide data on which water resources management can be based. The data also forms input of Water Allocation Plans that will be developed achieve the goals of sustaining agricultural production, while maintaining public water needs and ecological flows.

This workshop provides insight into the management of water resources and adaptation to external influences and developments, such as climate and land use change and population growth. It targets operations of water companies and provides tools for development and  implementation of resilient Water Supply programs for 2050 by the water operator partnership (WOP) under the WaterWorX program.

This course is targets both inexperienced GIS users, as well as more experienced users who make a transisition from ArcGIS to QGIS. We assume that the user has some background knowledge on how a Geographic Information System can be used to process, combine, analyse and display geospatial data. The course is mainly self-learning and uses a reader, assignemnt and example vector and raster files to familiarise the course participant with QGIS. Links are also supplied to the general QGIS documents and training courses.

This workshop aims to support TVET teachers in South Africa with teaching water-cost calculations, smart agriculture technologies, innovative means of saving water, dealing with marginal, including saline, soils and developing optimum nutrient solution mixes.

This site provides information to develop modules in which students are activated and motivated to learn about theoretical and practical aspects of farming and irrigation. A selection of existing modules, teaching and learning materials in the 2021 curriculum are revised in accordance with updated learning objectives. In addition the site contains presentations and material used in the 2023 NUFFIC workshop on improving agricultural practices.