The statistical community will come under increasing pressure from policy makers to help address the technical challenges of generating and translating data into policy useful information to support the implementation of global development goals. In the water sector, a key issue that will...

This report encapsulates the findings from a study commissioned by the African Development Bank in 2013, and identifies key constraints to managing and developing water resources in Africa's transboundary basins in order to support regional integration. It also provides some guidance on how to...

Water resource management is poorly understood and defined since the characteristics of water resources and their use are locally specific and differ widely from place to place. Beyond that, water as a renewable natural resource does not fall into conventional analytical paradigms. It is an...

The water crisis that has confronted Cape Town this summer should be of concern to all professional engineers in the field of water management. How was such a critical situation allowed to develop in one of South Africa’s largest cities? What can we learn from this process?