Dear scientist, Are you a professional writer? Have you thought about it? You probably consider writing to be an important and essential part of your work, but maybe you leave the title “professional writer” to those who have studied writing…
Water development projects continue to struggle with sustainability. “Rehabilitation” is a common term used for the construction of new water systems to replace systems that have failed prematurely. Prematurely failing water infra is a serious threat to achieving the Sustainable…
Tämä blogi on julkaistu alun perin vesi.fi sivustolla Tämän kesän kesä- ja heinäkuun kuumuus ja sateettomuus saattavat kuivattaa kaivoja ja heikentää satoja. Kuivakausi vaatii kuitenkin aikaa kehittyäkseen vakavaksi ongelmaksi. Kuivakausi voi kestää useita kuukausia tai jopa vuosia. Kesä- ja…
In this blog entry, Matleena Muhonen discusses some of the challenges Aalto’s multidisciplinary master’s level SGT Studio course has encountered during the pandemic. Many of the common practices are being challenged in both pedagogical and practical sides. At the…
In this blog post, Sara Heikonen writes about her insights on remote learning that she has gained through two different roles: writing her master’s thesis in the Water and Development Research Group and working as a programme-level course assistant in…
Sustainable water management is one of the United Nation’s sustainable development goals (SDGs) and is characterized by a high level of interdependencies with other SDGs from regional to global scales. Many water assessment studies are restricted to silo thinking, focusing…
A newly published study highlights the impacts of green water variability on global crop yields Water consumed by farming comes from either rainfall or irrigation. The water from rainfall is called green water, and it accounts for around 90% of…
Right after finishing my master’s thesis, I got the chance to do an internship at Global Water Partnership in Stockholm, Sweden. I have always been fascinated by such organisations, so I jumped at this opportunity to immerse myself in the…
There is development cooperation, and then there is development cooperation in times of crisis. How do these differ in practice? Arto Suominen of the Finnish-Ethiopian Community-Led Accelerated WASH (COWASH) project has found out while working in conflict-stricken Ethiopia for…
Since the 1980s, rainfall conditions for agriculture have improved only in scattered areas across the region Story highlights Studies have reported an upward trend in annual rainfall in the Sahel since the 1970s and 1980s, but farmers question whether vegetation…