Lo que más me gusta de trabajar con ingenieros es que cuando ellos ven modelos, sistemas y objetos; yo veo a la gente y sus necesidades. Trabajando con mis colegas del SEI con la herramienta WEAP (Water evaluation and planning) hemos estado vinculando ecosistemas, infraestructura de gestión del agua y regulación con la subsistencia de... Continue Reading →
Análisis Multidimensional de Pobreza y Desigualdad – Cuenca río Tupiza
En el proyecto de Bolivia WATCH estamos utilizando el marco Multidimensional de pobreza creado por ASDI que servirá para analizar quiénes son más vulnerables frente a la situación actual de la cuenca y frente a posibles futuros fenómenos climáticos, debido a la pobreza y la falta de acceso a recursos. El analisis de pobreza se... Continue Reading →
AGU Poster for Marquina Work
Stress on water resources is an increasing concern as populations are growing, incomes are rising, and food demand is increasing. These resources are already over-committed. Water deprivation has consequences on people’s well-being. Access to water and the existence of poverty are often interlinked. Water management analyses often miss this connection because they operate at a... Continue Reading →
Looking at Poverty, Gender, and Water Security in Cambodia
The Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), The Asia Foundation (TAF), and Winrock are collaborating on a project to integrate gender and poverty considerations with water security planning. Focused on the Stung Chinit basin in Cambodia, this project will create a poverty framework for the region and incorporate it into a water resources model using SEI’s... Continue Reading →
Water, Poverty, and Social Equality – Bolivia
During my involvement in the Gender and Social Equality program, we decided to do a pilot study in applying poverty and equality aspects in the Water Evaluation And Planning (WEAP) model. It resulted in a great project working with local partners and doing a lot of model disaggregation! This pilot is the basis for our... Continue Reading →
Thinking like a water model – Cambodia
As part of the Sustainable Water Partnership (SWP) project, I was asked to contribute a blog post about a board exercise we created for a Vulnerability Workshop in Cambodia. The video and board game described in the blog post below was our response in trying to communicate complex model results to a non-technical audience in... Continue Reading →
Economic and Climate Challenges in Mendoza Wine Region – Argentina
Argentina is one of the largest wine producers in Latin America and Mendoza is one of the main wine producing provinces in Argentina. Mendoza's water supply system faces many climate challenges related to frequent and consecutive droughts. This article provides a literature review of the economic and climate challenges related to wine production in Mendoza.... Continue Reading →
Examining Water Security Vulnerabilities – Cambodia
On September 17, 2018, the Sustainable Water Partnership (SWP) project hosted the Vulnerability Workshop for the Stung Chinit watershed in the Kampong Thom province of Cambodia. The Vulnerability Workshop represents an important step in the Robust Decision Support (RDS) process to assist stakeholders in adaptation planning. The workshop included 53 participants from local and regional... Continue Reading →
Examining poverty and equality in water resources planning – Colombia
The management of water resources is often done at the basin or sub-basin scale, which is often not detailed enough to adequately evaluate the water needs and challenges of various social groups. The design of water management analysis is often based on sectors like agriculture, urban, and energy, rather than on the individuals and families... Continue Reading →
Examining women’s and children’s time in collecting water in a water planning model – Ethiopia
As part of SEI’s Gender and Social Equality program (GSE), we’ve been exploring ways to analyze water collection time in Ethiopia. Based on this PLOS ONE journal article, we obtained women and children’s time in collecting water and use it to create a WEAP tutorial chapter. Check out the tutorial chapter posted on the WEAP website... Continue Reading →