Abstracts

The Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation is a slow-moving climate pattern with outsized influence on river systems. By shaping atmospheric circulation, precipitation, and groundwater recharge over decades, AMO can alter river flow regimes, drought persistence, and flood risk across continental basins.

Hydropower is entering a more demanding phase. For executives, the central issue is no longer whether hydropower can deliver energy but whether hydropower assets can be managed as basin infrastructure that strengthens grid resilience, water security, and downstream system performance.

Iraq just lived through its driest year since 1933. It also buried people killed by flash floods in the space of a single week. These look like opposite problems. They are the same problem wearing two faces, and it is one Iraq can solve without waiting for a drop of rain.

Water security is no longer just about supply. In the Mediterranean and beyond, the real challenge is the water trilemma: too little water, too much water, and too much pollution. The answer lies in combining governance, finance, technology, and local participation into one connected system.

Water scarcity threatens 45 percent of global GDP by 2050. Forty-one utilities across 24 countries reveal their top struggles: non-revenue water, service reliability, and climate vulnerability. This article exposes the urgent water crisis and why operational decision support-not just data-is the gap utilities desperately need filled.

Panama’s water story is one of growing tension: repeated droughts are straining hydropower, urban supply, agriculture, and canal operations, while basin-level adaptation efforts are trying to keep the system resilient.

Transboundary basins are where water security, politics, and livelihoods meet under pressure. This post explores 10 high-stakes examples, from the Indus and Nile to the Mekong, Jordan, and Euphrates-Tigris, showing why cooperation over shared waters has never mattered more.

Uzbekistan’s hydrology is shaped by scarcity, transboundary dependence, and the long legacy of the Aral Sea basin. With agriculture consuming most withdrawals and river flows under growing climate pressure, better basin-scale data and forecasts is becoming essential for water security.

At GeoField 2026 in Rome, BWI explores how river basin digitization and river flow forecasting can improve irrigation dispatch, strengthen water efficiency, and help basin managers balance agriculture with energy, industry, drinking water, and ecosystem needs.

Climate change is intensifying 9 major flood hazards worldwide. From river flooding to GLOF, discover which threats impact your region and why early warning saves lives.