Explainers

IWMI invites partners to jointly accelerate action across water intelligence, the food nexus and governance.

From India’s agriculture fields to its parliament, the IWMI-Tata Water Policy Research Program continues to shape programs and policies.

Government officials, researchers and farmers are coming together to inform sustainable smallholder irrigation systems in the Meki River watershed.

IWMI's Anurag Banerjee, Darshini Ravindranath and Tanmoy Bhaduri argue that India’s energy transition will be judged not by installed gigawatts alone, but by whether the farmer in Mandla or the smallholder in Gujarat experiences it as a change in their life.

Emergent properties are our biggest climate threat, yet could also be the key to making significant progress against climate change.

On World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, find out how India's first anticipatory AI-powered drought advisory is turning early warning into early action.

The invisible burden of water scarcity shaping the daily lives of women in Pakistan’s Tharparkar district.

The IWMI-led Global Environment Flows Platform brings together open-access tools to estimate environmental flows and track progress towards diminishing water stress.

Through e-ReWater, IWMI and partners use AI, remote sensing and water demand analysis to support safe water reuse.

A new book by IWMI researchers sets out institutional reforms needed to manage water, amid worsening floods and droughts.

A new study covering 121 countries shows that improving access to safe drinking water is critical to tackling food insecurity in both low- and high-income countries.

When climate forecasts and agricultural advice reached farmers in a Sri Lankan village, they rewrote the rules of climate risk.

IWMI’s Youssef Brouziyne told CNN that seawater desalination remains 1.5 to 4 times more expensive than many traditional freshwater sources, despite remarkable cost reductions achieved by Morocco and other countries in the Middle East and North Africa.

IWMI and the Nile Basin Initiative scope the development of a pioneering digital twin to boost water management and forecasting.

A recent study led by the development NGO Brac, with the Global Center on Adaptation and IWMI, found that rising temperatures, declining rainfall and expanding boro rice cultivation are pushing the region towards critical groundwater depletion within the next two decades.

The Government of Tanzania has established a national roadmap for transforming the country's seed sector through 2030.

IWMI’s Iskandar Abdullaev describes drought as a regional stress test for water, energy, food systems and political trust. 

How IWMI scientists and irrigation managers from Mali co-created a digital irrigation tool for long-term impact.

A multi-stakeholder platform in Nigeria brings together government, financiers and farmers to align priorities and scale irrigation investment in agriculture.

IWMI’s Jayanta Bhattacharya highlights how pairing solar irrigation with Alternate Wetting and Drying techniques will help incentivize water conservation, reduce methane emissions and secure long-term food and water security in Bangladesh.

Climate science and adaptation strategies can only make an impact when people are able to understand and act upon them.

IWMI's Wolde Mekuria shares insights on how exclosures can reduce soil erosion and restore vegetation cover.

An IWMI open-access spatial inventory maps current and future power plants across Africa and projects energy, water and carbon implications.

A water-saving approach for sustainable rice production.