Africa Water Week begins next week, the continent's largest gathering of water ministers, experts and NGOs. Globally, we may be on track to meeting the MDG related to drinking water; but for some parts of the continent we're still a long way off:
http://www.africawaterweek.com/index.php
"Toward 2050, rising population and incomes are expected to call for 70 percent more food production globally, and up to 100 percent more in developing countries, relative to 2009 levels. Yet, the distribution of land and water resources does not favour those countries that need to produce more in...
One of the issues I'm becoming increasingly interested in is data-enabled decision making related to water. The finer the margins, the more accurate data needs to be. However, in many ways, the region has been a laggard in data-driven decision making. To paraphrase one of my favorite thinkers on...
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