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The objective of the WAT Group is to provide the scientific foundation needed for addressing the quest for water security across scales and to help bridge science-policy-practice gaps related to water management by leading global efforts on integrated assessment of water resources and exploring transformation pathways towards a water secure future.
Water plays a central role in all human activities and needs to be managed efficiently and sustainably. The WAT Group pushes the boundary of transdisciplinary water science enabled by the institute’s recognized expertise in systems science approaches, to provide the scientific knowledge needed to address the quest for water security. The group aims to lead global efforts on integrated assessment of water supply and demand and identify solutions options that improve water scarcity, ameliorate water quality, and enhance resilience to extreme events, while at the same time engaging with key stakeholders at different levels to translate science into policy.
The group’s research has informed the development of various widely used models, which will continually be refined and extended to enable application and analysis at policy-relevant spatial scales. The group contributes to several IIASA research themes including biodiversity and ecosystem services, production and consumption, technology and innovation, and governance and institutions, by providing the water resources research expertise required for the development of a systemic approach to resolving sustainability issues.
Models, tools, datasets
Projects
Staff
News
![IIASA VAST](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-07/Group_pciture_Elisabeth_room_2%20cropped.jpg?itok=Tm2RWpN9)
22 July 2024
Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST) visits IIASA
![Water scarcity](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-07/dreamstime_l_307022937.jpg?itok=gDwZ2-Yg)
08 July 2024
Efficient water quality management could reduce future water scarcity by half
![Lancang-Mekong River Basin](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-06/dreamstime_l_257136793.jpg?itok=yVcAmdze)
10 June 2024
Analyzing the benefits of transboundary cooperation in the Lancang-Mekong River Basin
Events
Focus
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17 July 2024
Biodiversity lessons from nature
IIASA researchers Silvia Artuso and Juliette Martin reflect on a recent workshop presented at the Institute as part of the IIASA School Engagement Initiative, during which they introduced students to systems analysis and took them on an adventure to explore the amazing biodiversity of Laxenburg park.
27 June 2024
Supporting sustainable agriculture
![plant microscope](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-06/dreamstime_xxl_79845672.jpg?itok=ujOglzrV)
Publications
Martin, J. , Kanade, R., Bhadbhade, N., Joy, K.J., Thomas, B.K., Willaarts, B. , & Hanger-Kopp, S. (2024). Review of the food, water and biodiversity nexus in India. Environmental Science & Policy 159 e103826. 10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103826. Fridman, D. , Burek, P. , Wada, Y. , Kahil, T. , & Palazzo, A. (2024). SSP-aligned projected European water withdrawal/consumption at 5 arcminutes. 10.5281/zenodo.13379538. Zhao, F., Lange, S., Goswami, B., & Frieler, K. (2024). Frequency Bias Causes Overestimation of Climate Change Impacts on Global Flood Occurrence. Geophysical Research Letters 51 (16) e2024GL108855. 10.1029/2024GL108855. Ermolieva, T., Havlik, P. , Derci Augustynczik, A.L., Frank, S. , Balkovič, J. , Skalský, R. , Deppermann, A., Nakhavali, A., Komendantova, N. , Kahil, T. , Wang, G., Folberth, C. , & Knopov, P.S. (2024). Tracking the Dynamics and Uncertainties of Soil Organic Carbon in Agricultural Soils Based on a Novel Robust Meta-Model Framework Using Multisource Data. Sustainability 16 (16) e6849. 10.3390/su16166849. Arheimer, B., Cudennec, C., Castellarin, A., Grimaldi, S., Heal, K., Lupton, C., Sarkar, A., Tian, F., Kileshye Onema, J.-M., Archfield, S., Blöschl, G., Chaffe, P., Croke, B., Dembélé, M., Leong, C., Mijic, A., Mosquera, G., Nlend, B., Olusola, A., Polo, M., Sandells, M., Sheffield, J., van Hateren, T., Shafiei, M., Adla, S., Agarwal, A., Aguilar, C., Andersson, J., Andraos, C., Andreu, A., Avanzi, F., Bart, R., Bartosova, A., Batelaan, O., Bennett, J., Bertola, M., Bezak, N., Boekee, J., Bogaard, T., Booij, M., Brigode, P., Buytaert, W., Bziava, K., Castelli, G., Castro, C., Ceperley, N., Chidepudi, S., Chiew, F., Chun, K., Dagnew, A., Dekongmen, B.W., Del Jesus, M., Dezetter, A., Do Nascimento Batista, J., Doble, R., Dogulu, N., Eekhout, J., Elçi, A., Elenius, M., Finger, D., Fiori, A., Fischer, S., Förster, K., Ganora, D., Gargouri Ellouze, E., Ghoreishi, M., Harvey, N., Hrachowitz, M., Jampani, M., Jaramillo, F., Jongen, H., Kareem, K., Khan, U., Khatami, S., Kingston, D., Koren, G., Krause, S., Kreibich, H., Lerat, J., Liu, J., Liu, S., Madruga de Brito, M., Mahé, G., Makurira, H., Mazzoglio, P., Merheb, M., Mishra, A., Mohammad, H., Montanari, A., Mujere, N., Nabavi, E., Nkwasa, A., Orduna Alegria, M., Orieschnig, C., Ovcharuk, V., Palmate, S., Pande, S., Pandey, S., Papacharalampous, G., Pechlivanidis, I., Penny, G., Pimentel, R., Post, D., Prieto, C., Razavi, S., Salazar-Galán, S., Sankaran Namboothiri, A., Santos, P., Savenije, H., Shanono, N., Sharma, A., Sivapalan, M., Smagulov, Z., Szolgay, J., Teng, J., Teuling, A., Teutschbein, C., Tyralis, H., van Griensven, A., van Schalkwyk, A., van Tiel, M., Viglione, A., Volpi, E., Wagener, T., Wang, X., Wang-Erlandsson, L., Wens, M., & Xia, J. (2024). The IAHS Science for Solutions decade, with Hydrology Engaging Local People IN one Global world (HELPING). Hydrological Sciences Journal 1-19. 10.1080/02626667.2024.2355202.