Join us online TODAY at 14:00-15:00 (GMT+2) for our Seminar Series. Dr , Regional Rep of & Initiative Lead for #UkamaUstawi will tackle "Water Security in Southern Africa: A Mission Possible."
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Yakob Umer
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Regional Researcher | Water Risks and Data Science Specialist at IWMI-South Africa
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"Agriculture is crucial for strengthening #FoodSecurity & driving inclusive and sustainable growth in Africa–but its potential remains largely untapped by investors. Through a collaborative, multi-stakeholder approach, AICCRA is working to change this."
🔗bit.ly/AICCRA2022
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High-level meeting with officials to create water secure and climate resilient #Zambia in partnership with Ministry of Agriculture, Thanks to great support from
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Happy to share our paper "Assessing the Impact of the #Urban Landscape on #Extreme #Rainfall Characteristics Triggering #Flood #Hazards" was accepted in the winter holidays mdpi.com/2054448 #mdpihydrology via
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Ethiopians in Ukraine looking to cross the border to Poland, pls contact Ethio Embassy in Berlin: aethiopien-botschaft.de There's no requirement for a visa to transit through Poland. If you need help with Polish translations etc., message me. Pls share . .
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Today at noon CET, 11am UTC releases
#ClimateChange 2022: Impacts, Adaptation & Vulnerability
Hard conclusions on what's happening, what's in store, and how to respond to the rising risks of climate change.
Tune in here
ipcc.ch/2022/02/16/wgi
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hydrometeorological hazards (floods, droughts, and landslides) still leading the course of disaster in Ethiopia
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..nice stuff
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Very nice to run through one of the #Jupyter notebooks provided by @ECMWF together with their new #opendata and plot your own chart. Try it yourself at github.com/ecmwf/notebook
ift.tt/2Y5XV7C Sensitivity of flood dynamics to different soil information sources in urbanized areas
Publication date: October 2019
Source: Journal of Hydrology, Volume 577
Author(s): Y.M. Umer, V.G. Jetten, J. Ettema
Abstract
This study focused on the sensitivit…
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Making a downpour in Uganda... New paper by Yakob Umer and colleagues successfully simulating high intensity rainfall events over Kampala city, a step towards integrated flood hazard assessment to make the city more resilient. Open access: mdpi.com/2073-4441/13/6
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The USA is welcoming the third world country system. No more objecting Eastern system by Vladimir Putin or Xi Jiping
🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹Nuri lezelalem
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Worth watching. He gives a nice background on #GERD
IHE Delft 💧 Prof. Pieter van der Zaag discusses the Grand Ethiopian Ren... youtu.be/Qp0ml3XrgSE via
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BBC: We demand the BBC to immediately retract the dangerous, misleading reporting on GERD - Sign the Petition! chng.it/XXkDCfCK via
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Finally, thanks to everyone who makes the dream comes true, #Ethiopia starts saving its blood!
#ItsMyDAM
#ItsOurDAM
#FillTheDAM
#GERD
#EthiopianNileRights
#EthiopianBlueNileRights
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Replying to @kalkida37009634
awareness about Ethiopia's
right onNile To conter .egypt's mislading about Nile
To advocate Ethiopia's right on the river
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Economic Role of GERD
by Prof John Struthers
#ItIsMyDam
#fillthedam
#GERD
#እኔምለአባይአለሁ!
I stand for fair and equitable uses of Nile waters!!
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إن الأيادي التي حاولت التدخل في الشؤون الداخلية ل #اثيوبيا وحاولت أن تؤجج الوضع الداخلي لبلادنا ستقطع إربا إربا وإن الأرواح الإثيوبية الزكية التي أزهقت مؤخرا تزيدنا وحدة وقوة وإصرارا وصمودا على المضي قدما للنهضة بالوطن .
#سد_النهضة
#السودان
#مصر
#Ethiopia
#sudan
#Egypt
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam will bring electricity to the whole country, where currently 60% of people are without electric power. It is constructed & ready to be filled. It will lift people out of poverty & benefit the wider region
#GERD
#fillthedam
#BananaOfTheDay
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“Ethiopians Right to the Water of the Nile.”
Ethiopia has the right to use its water Resources to achieve development and improve the lives of its people.
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Ethiopia will start filling z #GERD in July
Total 7 years of filling
Prolonged drought?
all three countries share together
Period! twitter.com/WeAspire/statu
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Publication of the week: With all the flooding experienced recently we decided to highlight an Weather, Climate, and Society publication that investigates driver perception and risk during flash floods.
#TurnAroundDontDrown
journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.117
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The Climate Change Initiative call for post doc. research fellowships is now open at climate.esa.int. Deadline 8/08/2020. Up to €99K is available per project!
Go for it!
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Locust + COVID-19 and now flooding, Eastern Africa is facing the worst compound disaster of all time
🔴 Flood Alert and 21 to 30 April Forecast ⛅: mailchi.mp/461bcfff438a/f
Egypt likes side dishes instead of main course
In pursuit of Nile justice
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