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August 29, 2019

The Winland project ended with a multitude of policy briefs and research articles

Winland was a strategic research project coordinated by WDRG exploring future energy and food security in Finland. The project ended in August, and the final seminar was held in April…

August 26, 2019

How much water do you eat?

Our doctoral candidate, M.Sc. (tech.) Mika Jalava will defend his doctoral dissertation this Friday, 30.8.2019 at noon in Aalto, TU1 room in Maarintie 8. His dissertation, “The water we eat:…

March 12, 2019

Master’s Thesis in a research group: threat or opportunity? 

When I came up with the title “The value of open-source based river streamflow estimation in Southeast Asia”, my attempt to write a Master’s Thesis was a lot easier said than done; attempting to compose…

February 27, 2019

Vertical farming: the myth of resource efficiency

Indoor vertical farming represents one of relatively fresh approach to food production. Scenarios of plant factories producing fresh greens year-around close to consumers have been published in media and they…

February 21, 2019

Water Scarcity Atlas: introducing and showcasing global water scarcity analyses

The Water Scarcity Atlas (waterscarcityatlas.org) is a freely available educational tool to help us all make more sustainable choices in day-to-day life. It uses interactive global maps to provide an…

January 3, 2019

Happy new year!

Last year was our success story in many ways. Here is a brief summary of our key achievements. Hopefully year 2019 will bring as much joy and success – happy…

September 20, 2018

Cape Town’s water crisis

As one of the most severe urban droughts in modern history, the Cape Town water crisis has flooded South African and international news in recent months. For Finnish, please scroll…

September 17, 2018

How to write and excellent paper?

Together with IWA YWP Finland (International Water Association’s Young Water Professional), we organized a scientific publishing workshop for all the doctoral candidates across Nordic and Baltic countries. The variety of…

September 4, 2018

Exploring water through art and science

In mid-August Aino Peltola, Elina Lehikoinen and Matias Heino from Aalto University’s Water and Environmental Research Group got an exciting change to their regular schedule, when a group of secondary…

July 12, 2018

Runoff uncertainty, rice production and land acquisitions

Among the key parts of our WDRG team and our research are master theses. Currently we have three project workers, who work on their thesis within our group. Veli-Pekka Toivianen…

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