World Water Day 2022
World Water Day 2022 - Online Colloquium 22nd March, 13:00 hours
Groundwater: Making the Invisible Visible
Groundwater is a vital resource that provides almost half of all drinking water worldwide, about 40% of water for irrigated agriculture and about 1/3 of water required for industry. It sustains ecosystems, maintains the baseflow of rivers and prevents land subsidence and seawater intrusion. Groundwater is an important part of climate change adaptation process and is often a solution for people without access to safe water. Despite these impressive facts and figures, invisible groundwater is out of sight and out of mind for most people. Human activities (including population- and economic growth) and climate variability are rapidly increasing the pressure on groundwater resources: serious depletion and pollution problems are reported for many parts of the world. The World Water Day on groundwater will put a spotlight on this invisible resource, enhance knowledge exchange and collaboration and thereby increase the awareness of the importance of taking care of our groundwater.
Groundwater may be out of sight, but it must not be out of mind.
With key-note contributions of:
- Elisabeth Lictevout (Director International Groundwater Resources Assessment Centre - igrac)
- Yoshihide Wada (Professor of Global Water and Food Security, Utrecht University)
- Jan H. Fleckenstein (Professor for Hydrologic Modeling, Bayreuth University and UFZ Leipzig)
And also PhD Students of the "Water - People - Agriculture" Research Training Group presenting their research projects.
The World Water Day Colloquium 2022 will take place online as Zoom meeting, please follow the link provided:
Colloquium Zoom-Link:
uni-hohenheim.zoom.us/j/87468085514
Meeting-ID: 874 6808 5514
Kenncode: w4cMaB
Program
Time | Person / Institution | Title |
13:00 | Folkard Asch Scientific Director Research Training Group "Water - People - Agriculture" | Opening World Water Day Colloquium 2022 |
Julia Fritz-Steuber Prorector for Research University of Hohenheim | Welcome Note | |
13:10 | Yoshihide Wada Department of Physical Geography Faculty of Geosciences Utrecht University | Sustainability of global groundwater use: An integrated water resources modeling framework to assess groundwater overuse and associated impacts |
13:50 | Jan Fleckenstein | Groundwater - a "hidden" Resource |
14:30 | Coffee Break | |
14:45 | Elisabeth Lictevout Director International Groundwater Resources Assessment Centre (igrac), Delft | Groundwater management lessons from Chile |
15:20 | Kristian Johnson WPA Scholar (Institute of Agricultural Sciences in the Tropics) | The effect of water-saving irrigation technologies on rice phenology and yield |
15:45 | Natalie Palm WPA Scholar (Institute of Landscape and Plant Ecology) | The water caltrop (Trapa natans L.): An endangered macrophyte as a multi-purpose crop with invasive potential |
16:10 | Folkard Asch | Closing of the Colloquium |
As a supplemental publication, the World Water Development Report 2022 will be launched on the occasion of World Water Day, on 22 March 2022 by UNESCO.
More at: https://www.worldwaterday.org/
