The ‘Miracle Water Village’: an inspiring tale of sustainable water management
Today we feature “The Miracle Water Village“, an inspiring tale of sustainable water management in India made by Black Ticket Films, an independent New Delhi film company specialising in human rights,...
View ArticleGoing with the flow?: The need for more holistic, data-led freshwater policy
Leafpack in the Cuisance River (France). Image: Núria Bonada A new publication by BioFresh partners Dr Paul Jepson and Rob St.John at The University of Oxford argues that freshwater ecosystems should...
View ArticleNew study reveals Europe’s rivers under pressure
Catalonian mountain stream. Image: Nuria Bonada A new press release from the European Commission states that: “the largest investigation to date into the extent of human-induced pressure on European...
View ArticleTrouble in Paradise? The untold story of the oasis biodiversity crisis
Ubari Oasis, Libya. Photo courtesy: Wikimedia Commons Oases are remarkable places. In the middle of the barren, scorching desert they provide a refuge for life. But oasis ecosystems are coming under...
View ArticleAction Packed Start to the IUCN Congress
A protest by environmental activists, controversy over the Korean Four Major Rivers Project and alarming new information about the plight of invertebrate and freshwater species marked the first full...
View ArticleReflections on a successful UK freshwater biodiversity science-policy meeting
Congratulations to Martin Kernan and the UCL team for organizing a thoroughly interesting and worthwhile day bringing together those who do biodiversity freshwater science with those who use freshwater...
View ArticleWater security challenges: the gap between science and policy
About 80% of the world’s population faces water insecurity or risks relating to loss of freshwater biodiversity. Water security is an issue of growing concern, but at present academic research often...
View ArticleDESSIN: new technologies for innovative water management
Sustainable water management is one of the most pressing global environmental challenges, as growing human populations abstract, pollute and divert water flows across the world, whilst patterns of...
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