17.08.2022
Water networks, but not the way you think
When we think of water networks, we usually imagine either pipes underground or rivers flowing and connecting through the landscape. But there are also social networks, which not only refer…
30.06.2022
Match words with deeds: Curbing water risk with the Sustainable Development Goal 6 index
17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were proposed to tackle social, economic, and environmental challenges in the realm of sustainable development, since the 2030 Agenda was unanimously endorsed worldwide in 2015…
27.05.2022
The Devil is in the Details: Opportunities and Harms of Water Hyacinth around Lake Victoria
The pungent smell of fish got more intense as our bus got closer to Dunga, a fishing village on the shore of Kenya’s Lake Victoria. The sun was almost straight…
02.05.2022
A simple solution for disaster water treatment
Our new study, Solar disinfection – An appropriate water treatment method to inactivate faecal bacteria in cold climates 1, was recently published in Science of the Total Environment. In short,…
11.04.2022
100 years of Finnish-Russian transboundary water interactions: Reflections on a published study
This blog post reflects my recently published peer-reviewed article, co-authored by Professor Keskinen (Haapala & Keskinen, 2022). The article reviews the history of Finland’s cross-boundary cooperation with Russia, focusing on…
01.04.2022
How to educate doctors?
In this post we summarize the final report of MVTT’s impact assessment of the Majakka project. The synthesis can be found in Finnish from MVTT’s home page. The assessment was…
14.03.2022
An automatic combination of existing forecasting approaches can help reduce flood impacts
In the fall of 2019, a weather phenomenon known in Spain as “DANA” or “Gota Fría” devastated the south-eastern part of the country. Torrential rains of 460 mm in 24 hours caused…
16.12.2021
Global migration and the complex interplay between environmental and social factors
Featured image © Irina Nazarova | Dreamstime.com Venla Niva shares insights from a recent article exploring the interplay of environmental and social factors behind human migration. The project was…
29.11.2021
Our PhD journey so far: zero first-author articles in two years
Getting started with things is always a bit of a hassle. Completing a PhD is a relatively massive and relatively vague thing. We’ve now been getting vaguely started for a…
17.11.2021
Pioneering excellence in research and education
Majakka is our 5-year project that focuses on co-creating practices, mechanisms and culture to improve doctoral education and water research, aiming to educate top-notch game changers and to strengthen our…