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NEW: The Newsletter of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development published a special issue on water as one of the seven critical issues of RIO+20, referring to the GWSP Rio+20 Policy Brief on 'Water Security for a Planet under Pressure'. Click here for the Newsletter.
Obituary: The GWSP community mourns the loss of Dr. Konrad Vielhauer (1957 - 2011), GWSP Science Officer. Konrad will be fondly remembered for his devotion to his family and professional career. Trained in tropical agronomy, he was an outstanding researcher and scientific coordinator. Our deepest sympathy goes to Konrad's wife and five children.
New version of GRanD database available online
The Global Reservoir and Dam Database 1.1 is online now. This dataset compiles reservoirs with a storage capacity of more than 0.1 km³. The recent version contains 6.862 spatially explicit records of reservoirs with their respected dams and gives information on their storage volume. Read more...
For dataset download please click here.
GWSP Digital Water Atlas
The purpose and intent of the GWSP `Digital Water Atlas`is to decribe the basic elements of the Global Water System, the interlinkages of elements and changes in the state of the Global Water System by creating a consistent set of annotated maps. For more information click here.
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>> GWSP Policy Brief on Water Security availabe online now.
>> Message from the Dresden International Conference on Integrated Water Resources Management
>> Global Water News No. 10 available online.
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