Author: Giulio Castelli

AG-WaMED Final conference

The PRIMA AG-WaMED final conference was held on July 10th, with the title “Governing non conventional water resources (NCW) in the Mediterranean: the experience of the AG-WaMED PRIMA project”, in Rome, Italy. Lots of interesting presentations and discussions, with roundtables and interactive moments with the participation of PRIMA Projects Nexus-Ness and SALAM – MED. The […]

International IAHS Working Group on Non-Conventional Waters

A big milestone was reached by AG-WaMED, AGREEMed and AGREEMAR Projects: following the results of our applied research efforts and the work of our Living Labs, the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) approved the creation of an International Working Group on Non-Conventional Water (NCW) use for Integrated Water Resources Management based on the work […]

Online course on Water Harvesting through Small Agricultural Reservoirs

The AG-WaMED project is co-organizing an International Online course on “Water Harvesting through Small Agricultural Reservoirs for sustainable water management” The course is organized by the Water Harvesting Lab, at University of Florence, the Institution coordinating the project. The online professional training course will deal with Small Agricultural Reservoirs as a tool for sustainable and resilient […]

AG-WaMED at EGU 2025 conference

AG-WaMED project was present at EGU 2025 conference! Lots of thoughts and discussion over the results of our project and on the main outcomes of our Rural Living Labs in the Mediterranean. Here are our presentations: Assessment of alternative water storage strategies in a Mediterranean catchment in a changing climate, EGU25-13422 Oral, Session HS5.1.4 – […]

New paper from the Italian Living Lab

A new paper was published by colleagues at University of Florence, on the Participatory Modeling of Small Agricultural Reservoirs in the Orcia Watershed. The paper describes the process of stakeholders’ involvement, crucial to understand the challenges and to co-produce possible solutions. The outputs of two workshops carried out in the Orcia watershed, together with desktop […]

Joint Masterclass on Non-Conventional Water (NCW) use in the Mediterranean

AG-WaMED Masterclass Third edition: Science and Practice of Non-Conventional Water (NCW) use in the Mediterranean Joint Masterclass of AG-WaMED, AGREEMed and AGREEMAR PRIMA projects 20.03.2025 – 9.15 Italian Time Registration link: https://forms.gle/JYYnsVF3tmWaVdse9 The third edition of the AG-WaMED Masterclass will be organized in partnership with AGREEMed (Innovative Aquifers Governance for Resilient Water Management and Sustainable […]

WMO State of Global Water Resources Report presentation

We are delighted to invite you to the presentation of the report on the State of Global Water Resources by the World Meteorological Organization: https://wmo.int/publication-series/state-of-global-water-resources-2023 that will be held on March 17th, 2025, 11:00 – 12:30 | Room B, Scuola di Agraria, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Piazzale delle Cascine, 18, Firenze and online.  The registration link is: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfLCcDI6algfTPK1rhb_05UVbZpQ4RL3IO1SQkaZpEC0a6iLA/viewform The report will […]

PRIMA Projects presented at the third Arab Land Conference

On February 20th, 2025, AG-WaMED project was presented together with AGREEMed and AGREEMAR. This group of PRIMA Partnership – funded project aims at establishing a long-term platform for coordinating Mediterranean research on non-conventional water resources. Prof Elena Bresci from Università degli Studi di Firenze and PI of AG-WaMED presented a talk on “Integrated Land and […]

AG-WaMED Italian Living Lab listed in the Atlas of Water4ALL

Huge news for AG-WaMED! Our Italian Living Lab in Val D’Orcia is now listed within the Atlas of Water-oriented Living Labs of Water4All. The area is mainly characterized by non-irrigated agriculture but, in the last decades, farmers resorted to emergency irrigation during summer. Only few direct abstraction points from Orcia river are present in the […]

High-resolution estimates of water availability for the Iberian Peninsula

Bolivar Paredes-Beltran, Alvaro Sordo-Ward, Francisco Martin-Carrasco, and Luis Garrote at UPM published a new paper in the framework of AG-WaMED, “High-resolution estimates of water availability for the Iberian Peninsula under climate scenarios“. The research aims to assess future potential water availability for the Iberian Peninsula in different climate scenarios, employing cutting-edge water resource modelling techniques […]

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