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Bias-corrected CORDEX Climate Change Database for the Nile Basin

SYDRO, on behalf of the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) and GIZ, has completed the Climate Service Infrastructure Project (CSI), which provides gridded dataset products (historical and bias-corrected climate change projections) for the whole Nile Basin. Sydro has derived Probable Maximum Precipitation and Intensity-Duration-Frequency curves and deployed them together with the bias-corrected time series to the […]

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NBI conducts training on Climate Services for Infrastructure Investments

The Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) recently conducted a 4-day training on Climate Services for Infrastructure Investments (CSI) at the Lake Victoria Hotel in Entebbe, Uganda. SYDRO’s Nada Abdelwahab attended the workshop and lead the training sessions regarding infrastructure service reliability assessment. The Nile Basin Countries’ experts were introduced to different climate products provided by the […]

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TASK2 started

Following the successful completion of the predecessor project TASK, the successor project TASK2 was launched in 2021. The joint partners are the city of Erfurt and TFW (Thüringer Fernwasserversorgung). The project is funded by the BMU (German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety). The aim is to develop a tool for […]

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Transboundary River Basins

Transboundary Water Management

About 60% of global freshwater flows cross national boundaries and almost 50% of the globe’s land surface are transboundary river basins. Growing population and water demand in combination with climate change pose a risk of resource depletion leading to competition and conflicts between riparian countries. Transboundary water management is therefore one of the mounting issues […]

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