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Meet Kartik Gera, Lead Data Engineer at BWI. From India to Melbourne to Paris, Kartik brings eight years of data and cloud expertise to building the scalable platforms that keep BWI’s forecasts reliable and accessible. Discover his journey and what drew him to BWI.

BWI release v2.17 brings a new Data Origins Viewer to the portal, an important API update, and a series of improvements to clarity, navigation, and usability. Here’s everything that’s new.

Meet Hugo Tricou, Junior Business Analyst at BWI. Based in Paris with a background in international relations and hydro-diplomacy, Hugo supports BWI’s response to tenders and helps secure the projects that bring hydrological forecasting to institutions worldwide. Discover his journey and what drew him to BWI.

Meet Gavriel Langer, DevOps Engineer Intern at BWI. Based in Paris and specializing in cybersecurity, Gavriel builds and secures the cloud infrastructure behind BWI’s hydrological forecasting platform. Discover his journey and what drew him to BWI.

Meet Mohamed Fadel Thiam, Finance & Accounting Intern at BWI. Based in Paris and currently studying accounting, control and audit, Fadel supports the company’s day-to-day financial activities — from financial reporting and bank reconciliation to treasury operations. Discover his journey and what drew him to BWI.

We’re pleased to welcome Issam El Kadiri, Research & Development Engineer at BWI. With a strong background in data science and applied mathematics, Issam contributes to improving BWI’s hydrological forecasting models and developing new approaches – a key element for delivering reliable river flow forecasts to our clients.

Karst landscapes, from Normandy and the Grands Causses to Guilin, Yucatán, Florida, Madagascar, and the Nullarbor, are major freshwater reservoirs that are hard to predict, vulnerable to turbidity, and essential to drinking-water management

Dry valleys can kill: parched soils turn rain into sudden, destructive flash floods. Pakistan, the Sahel/Horn countries, and several Gulf and Middle Eastern states top the list of places where dry-valley floods have repeatedly caused the most human harm.

Yemen has no permanent rivers, yet its dry valleys, wadis, turn into deadly flash floods during intense rainy seasons, destroying homes, killing dozens, and displacing tens of thousands. This post explains how Yemen’s unique hydrology works, why floods are so destructive in a war‑stricken, climate‑vulnerable country, and what it means for water security and flood risk management.