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Author: Anni Laihanen

Badge for third place winner in COVID-19 Digital Sprint Hackathon

3rd place for WISE/SAMBa team at NERC COVID 19 Digital Sprint Hackathon

July 3, 2020 Anni Laihanen

Students from WISE and SAMBa CDTs came third in the hackathon with their proposed blended work week solution.

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DOWN2EARTH

June 16, 2020 Anni Laihanen

An international team of researchers and organisations help tackle food and water insecurity in the Horn of Africa Drylands (HAD).

Image credit: BBC Media Action

Exeter CWS win #EUvsVirus Hackathon

May 22, 2020 Anni Laihanen

Experts from the University of Exeter Centre for Water Systems have won a prestigious award in an international European Commission competition to develop pioneering solutions to aid the recovery from pandemics, such as COVID-19.

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A small cascade in a creek

PhD Insights: Bridging the gap between biology and engineering

May 11, 2020 Anni Laihanen

PhD student Stephanie Mueller conducts interdisciplinary research to explore fish responses to flow alterations caused by leaky barriers and turbines in riverine systems.

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Publication modelling future sewer system scenarios selected as editor’s choice

April 23, 2020 Anni Laihanen

Research by colleagues at Bath and the Netherlands maps out the effects of different future water use scenarios, such as water conservation, on sewer systems.

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Dry land at sunset

Challenges of climate change and its impact on water resources for vulnerable regions

March 24, 2020 Anni Laihanen

The theme for this year’s World Water Day (22nd March) is ‘water and climate change’ and how the two are inextricably linked. Dr Michael Singer, Senior Lecturer in the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences and Deputy Director of the Water Research Institute at Cardiff University explains how GW4 researchers, part of the GW4 Water Security Alliance, are helping to address the global challenge of climate change and its impact on water resources.

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Water scarcity challenges under climate change in East African drylands

March 20, 2020 Anni Laihanen

Dr Katerina Michaelides, Head of Dryland Research Group at the School of Geographical Sciences and Cabot Institute for the Environment, University of Bristol, writes for the Cabot Institute blog to celebrate World Water Day. Her research focuses on how climate and climate change translates into useable water in the ground in East African dryland regions, and how people use and access relevant information to make livelihood decisions towards adaptation.

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Young Professionals address water security challenges in sub-Sahara

March 5, 2020 Anni Laihanen

With Africa’s population set to double by 2050, WIRC researchers are helping to train young professionals to meet water security challenges.

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Scientists produce plan to halt decline in freshwater species and habitats

February 19, 2020 Anni Laihanen

A global team of scientists has developed the first Emergency Recovery Plan to reverse the rapid decline in the world’s freshwater species and habitats.

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A photo of a pile of folded textiles

New research examines the impact of the textile usage on freshwater environments

February 12, 2020 Anni Laihanen

Global demands for synthetic and natural textiles places freshwater environments under increasing pressures.

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NextGen

February 6, 2020 Anni Laihanen

The project will look at demonstrating technologies with a potential to contribute to reuse and recovery of resources within a perspective of circular economy.

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Study compares floodplain protection today to predicted future flood losses

December 9, 2019 Anni Laihanen

A new study by scientists from The Nature Conservancy (TNC), the University of Bristol and flood analytics company Fathom, seeks to answer an important question related to flooding in the United States – pay now to protect undeveloped areas that are likely to flood in the future or allow developments to go ahead and pay for damage when it occurs.

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New cohort of PhD students to improve the management of freshwater

November 12, 2019 Anni Laihanen

Freshwater ecosystems are becoming more and more vulnerable to climate change and the extinction rates of freshwater species is now faster than any other.

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New H2020 project Aqua3S kicks off

October 16, 2019 Anni Laihanen

The Centre for Water Systems (CWS), University of Exeter together with 22 other European partners met in Thessaloniki, Greece on 25-26th September 2019 to launch the Aqua3S project.

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Changing climate linked to major changes in flooding

August 29, 2019 Anni Laihanen

Parts of northern Britain have suffered Europe’s biggest increases in flooding since the 1960s, according to new research by a multinational team including engineers from the University of Bath.

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£10 million for new Centre for Resilience in Environment, Water and Waste

July 11, 2019 Anni Laihanen

A £10.5 million investment will fund a pioneering new collaborative research centre, designed to solve some of the most pressing global environmental challenges of our time.

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Partner Research Centres

  • Water Innovation and Research Centre (Bath)
  • Water Initiative (Bristol)
  • Water Research Institute (Cardiff)
  • Centre for Water Systems (Exeter)
  • The Centre for Resilience in Environment, Water and Waste (Exeter)

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