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IAHS Has The Floor at UN 2023 Water Conference in NYC

IAHS Has The Floor at UN 2023 Water Conference

The IAHS Science for Water Solutions decade is recognised as a stepping stone towards the UN sustainable development goals. We are well aligned with the UN actions and together we can make an impact on the global movement.

We were represented at the UN 2023 Water Conference 22-24 March 2023 by Berit Arheimer (President), Christophe Cudennec (Secretary General), and Salvatore Grimaldi (Vice President). After contributing to the shaping of the conference in our capacity as Partner of UN Water, we had an explicit participation in several sessions and side events in New York. In particular, Berit Arheimer discussed, with representatives of the IAHS' parent organisation ISC - International Science Council, UNESCO, WMO, UNDP, UNEP, UNCCD, IAEA and Ministers of several countries around Korea, the contribution of organised science to the proposed Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform for Water Sustainability. The under-shaping IAHS Science for Solutions decade HELPING confirms to be a timely and relevant community-driven mechanism to feed #WaterAction.

The official statement and commitment by IAHS for Water Actions reads:

The International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) has 10,000 members from 150 countries and is part of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, and of the International Science Council.
IAHS strongly support the ideas on regular Global water assessments (similar to IPCC), early warnings for all, water-centric decision support, and to govern water and ecosystems as common goods.
IAHS recognise the problem with water issues being spread over many actors at all scales, AND likewise, the scientific knowledge - of drivers, impacts, solutions, responses in the water cycle - is also fragmented. We lack scientific synthesis and systems analysis, and we lack scientific messages between scientists, across disciplines and between scientists and practitioners.
Therefore, IAHS now commits to lead and coordinate a Science for Solutions Decade (2023-2033), and we have agreed to call it HELPING – “Hydrology Engaging Local People IN one Global world”. The aim is solutions for the water crisis, leaving no catchment or hydrologist behind, in search for scientific evidence to understand the hydrological processes at local and global scales, their interactions and diversity.
IAHS will organise this decade as a bottom-up process empowered by local hydrologists and scientists using open science and merging local and big data. IAHS believe that scientific sharing and collaboration can be a game changer, when solving local water problems with too much, too little or too dirty. Right now the process is open for suggesting actions and the Decade will kick-off in July 2023 at IUGG General Assembly in Berlin.

With this initiative, we will coordinate concerted actions from the global scientific community - HELPING to overcome the water crisis.

IAHS Latin America Workshop

From 27 February to 01 March 2023 an IAHS Workshop was held in Florianópolis, Brazil. Forty delegates of Latin American countries met to discuss the particularities and similarities of hydrological research and water security in Latin America, the Unsolved Problems in Hydrology (UPH) of the region, the opportunities of collaborations across countries, and in what way IAHS and national associations could help. A list of 23 Unsolved Problems in Hydrology in Latin America (UPH LA) was compiled similarly to the international ones. It was envisaged that a Latin America Regional Committee within IAHS would be appropriate to facilitate regular regional meetings on subjects of particular concern and galvanize the community around such subjects. A similar meeting will be held in Chile in early 2024 to continue the process of collaboration under the umbrella of IAHS. Stay tuned for more information.

 


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The United Nations World Water Development Report 2023

The United Nations World Water Development Report 2023: Partnerships and cooperation for water, launched today, directly informs the UN 2023 Water Conference discussions (22-24 March), describing how building partnerships and enhancing cooperation across all dimensions of sustainable development are essential to accelerating progress towards the Sustainable Development Goal for water and sanitation (SDG 6) and realizing the human rights to water and sanitation.

As an official partner of UN Water, IAHS contributed to this report, in particular chapter 7 (Climate change), chapter 9 (Education and capacity development) and chapter 11 (Innovation).

Read more here.

UN 2023 Water Conference: ISC Policy Brief

This policy brief of the International Science Council (ISC), which includes Christophe Cudennec (IAHS Secretary General) as a Contributor, for the UN 2023 Water Conference highlights the importance of science and the importance of actionable knowledge in responding to current global water crises as well as emerging and future challenges.

 

The brief groups the numerous water challenges into four main categories with associated examples and focal areas that each demand different scientific responses. Together with concluding advice, this policy brief aims to efficiently engage with policy- and decision-makers and other stakeholders at UN- and Member States-level to translate scientific insights into tangible improvements and support the water-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the achievement of the 2030 Agenda.

Click here for more information and to download the brief.

Science for Water Solutions Decade

The next IAHS decade will be dedicated to local solutions under the global water crisis. The short name will be HELPING, and stand for Hydrology Engaging Local People IN one Global world.

The new topic makes a nice trilogy with the previous two decades, ranging from Predictions (PUB) to Change (Panta Rhei) to Solutions (HELPING).

 

 

Explanation of Acronym

Helping = we need to collaborate, share and help each other to overcome the water crisis.

Hydrology = Hydrological sciences should underpin management and governance of water resources; thus, we need better understanding of impact from global drivers at local scales and vice versa.

Engaging = co-creation of knowledge includes shared capacity, common learning and community engagement. 

Local = water phenomena and problems are often unique at the local scale and solutions must therefore be solved considering local needs and knowledge.

People = the purpose is to connect people (scientists, practitioners, communicators and the general public) with similar interests to co-design, accumulate and transfer hydrological knowledge worldwide. 

IN one = together we can advance science faster than individually to overcome shared or similar challenges.

Global world = the Planet is in an emergency state with complex water-cycle interactions, which needs urgent actions to not leave anybody or any catchment behind.

Community Process

The topic of the new decade distilled from the outcome of the Córdoba workshop and the preceding vivid discussions online, followed by a simple survey on preference of selected topics. 130 persons answered on which topic they wanted to engage with (multiple choices) resulting in top scores for:

·         global and local hydrological interactions (60%);
·         water security (40%);
·         empowering people and science communication (35%).

Based on this the selected writing team (see below) has now launched a condensed Concept Note, which is found at the IAHS website under Initiatives/Scientific Decade. https://iahs.info/Initiatives/Topic-for-the-Next-IAHS-decade.do 

Actions and What to do

The next step is to define actions, work clusters and leaders for initiating the new decade. The Forum will be open for suggested themes and volunteers. In addition, two splinter meetings will be held at EGU on Thursday 27 April and a dedicated workshop will be held at TU Wien on Saturday the 29 April. Register here!

Click here to access more information about the Next Decade.

Workshop agenda 29 April at Technical University of Vienna

09.00 – 10.00 Intro and discussion of overall aim and expected outcome
10.00 – 10.30 BREAK
10.30 – 12.00 Brainstorming ideas on Actions and results
12.00 – 12.30 Reporting in Plenum
12.30 – 13.00 Discussion, Synthesis and Decision
13.00 – 14.00 LUNCH
14.00 – 15.00 Clustering the defined actions
15.00 – 15.30 Discussion and Decision
15.00 – 16.00 Wrap-up and Way forward
16.00 THE END

Acknowledgement

The original outcome document was consolidated from reflective and creative input by the IAHS community in the Cordoba workshop (50 persons) during three days; online meetings (100 persons) in three time-zones; posts in a forum (40) of the IAHS website. The condensed concept note was drafted by a smaller team of writers (15 persons) who contributed actively in organising the process and represents different parts of IAHS:

The IAHS Officers and Córdoba workshop organisers: Berit Arheimer, Christophe Cudennec, Günter Blöschl, Salvatore Grimaldi, Maria José Polo
Online conveners or co-conveners: Barry Cloke, Chris Leong, Stacey Archfield, Giova Mosquera, Melody Sandells, Jean-Marie Kileshye Onema
The Early Career Committee: Moctar Dembélé, Bertil Nlend
Early carrier opinion paper in HSJ (lead author): Tessa van Hateren
South America initiative: Pedro Chaffe

Abstract submission deadline extended to 10 March for Panta Rhei Symposium

The Panta Rhei Symposium, which marks the end of the IAHS Scientific Decade on Change in Hydrology and Society, will take place in GFZ Potsdam, Germany from 10 - 11 July 2023.  The objective is to present key results, discuss the way forward, and celebrate the achievements of Panta Rhei – Change in Hydrology and Society

The abstract deadline has been extended to 10 March. 

For information on abstract submission and registration visit here.  

As the symposium takes place immediately before the IUGG General Assembly, and in close proximity to Berlin, you should take this into account when making your travel arrangements.

Among the wider IUGG/IAHS programme, session H01 specially focuses on Panta Rhei Synthesis: Change in Hydrology and Society.

Córdoba Workshop & Updated Schedule for the Next Scientific Decade

IAHS continues to search for a new topic for the Next Scientific Decade. The workshop held in Córdoba 1-3 February was engaging with almost 50 scientists from across the globe participating in intense discussions resulting in many different suggestions and ideas. The consolidated outcome document as well as an updated time-plan is now available on the IAHS website.  The discussions indicate that the 3rd decade will be solution oriented and will search to find a scientific basis for understanding and reducing the local effects from the rising global water crisis in the Anthropocene.

However, we still search to narrow the focus, if possible, and to find an inspiring, overarching and catchy name. Therefore, we would like to encourage all members to participate in our quick survey by answering 1-3 simple questions. Once you have read and had a chance to reflect upon the outcome document, please click below and answer (anonymously) the survey by 28 Feb at the latest: Click here for the survey.

 

The Córdoba outcome document is a consolidation of the reflective and creative input by the IAHS community in: 

·        the Cordoba workshop (50 people) for three days,
·        online meetings (100 people) in three time-zones,
·        posts in a forum (40 comments) of the IAHS website.

 

Save the date – 29th April
The next step in the process will include a small team of 15 people who will draft a concept note, which will be available for commenting by mid-March and communicated at the UN Conference On Water in New York 22-24 March. A splinter meeting will be organised at EGU on Thursday 27 April, followed by a workshop to be held at Technical University of Wien on Saturday 29 April. 

Please register here for the workshop in Vienna on Saturday 29 April where we will discuss Actions and Leadership for the Next Scientific Decade (detailed agenda to follow at a later date). All completed registration forms must be sent to [email protected]

 

 

2023 Falkenmark Award winner announced

The winner of the first IAHS Falkenmark Award for best PhD thesis has been announced as Dr Afua Owusu from Ghana for her innovative interdisciplinary approach to re-operation of reservoirs for environmental flows.

Afua focussed on the success and failures to implement dam re-operations for environmental flows using an interdisciplinary approach. She managed to both evaluate global challenges and identify key factors for successful dam re-operation, using surveys as well as multi-sectorial trade-offs in the Lower Volta River Basin in Ghana, making use of an Evolutionary Multi-Objective Direct Policy Search.

The Falkenmark Award for best PhD thesis:

Recognises outstanding contributions to hydrological understanding of water scarcity and water supply.
Is granted every year, starting 2023 (nomination must be submitted no later than 31 December 2022).
Highlights the importance of capacity building and knowledge/data gathering in financially disadvantaged countries.

Eligible nominees:

Grew up in a financially disadvantaged country.
Performed the PhD work in one or more financially disadvantaged countries.
Holds a PhD certificate, which is dated within the last 2 years.

The award will be presented at the IUGG 2023 General Assembly

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