Upstream--a film I made over three years with Rob Petit-- screens on BBC4 this Sunday at 8.30pm BST. Score by HAUSCHKA. Voiced in Gaelic & English by Julie Fowlis & Niall Gordon. A dream-voyage to the source of the River Dee on the Cairngorm plateau. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

"The UN Watercourses Convention is based on the premise that water cooperation brings mutual benefits and can unlock wider collaboration. As the Asian economies become increasingly connected, cooperation over water is key" Raphael Glemet IUCN Asia 🤝➡digital.iucn.org/water/building…

Sheikh Rokon @ #RAD conference in Bangkok Bangladesh wisdom: rivers like snakes they move naturally natural erosion of rivers is good if you hurt their head they will wiggle their tail some human interventions will cause serious erosion bad for nature & people WWF Water 💧🐟

Beautiful bike ride from Milton Keynes Central to Cranfield Uni on this crisp morning! It's getting darker every day though... Car drivers: please be mindful of us on the road. We'll do our bit and look like fluorescent, twinkling Christmas trees. #winteriscoming Cranfield University

Check it out! You can now explore mobile air pollution data from the specially-equipped Google Street View cars breathelondon.org

'Sand wars': the battle to replenish Florida’s beaches amid climate crisis theguardian.com/us-news/2019/o…

If you want to relive my talk on Spatial Interactions Models at CARTO's #SDSC19 conference, just check it out on youtube: youtube.com/watch?v=3wzaBN… ! It is short, it is sweet, and it mentions some of the works I've been doing with Michael Batty at UCL CASA and w/ Senseable City Lab

ECMWF has launched the GloFAS v2.1 global river discharge reanalysis today, an Copernicus EMS product. Available freely through the Copernicus ECMWF CDS providing daily river discharge information at the global scale from 1979 to near real time: cds.climate.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/datas…

One of the reasons why it is so important to understand dynamics in sediment transport and river morphology: bbc.com/future/article… via BBC Future #sandmining #sediment #rivers

Time for a radical rethink about sand? phys.org/news/2019-09-r… via Phys.org

Very timely with so many flood alerts issued across the UK: special issue on urban flood resilience in Philosophical Transactions A. blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/blue-greenciti… #flooding #resilience #systemsthinking Dr Emily O'Donnell

Top tip of the day: eat more.... bugs! They're nutritious and it's kind to the planet. Where to start? Try the BUG box for your weekly bug-fix, including delicious recipes developed by the passionate team @bugrecipes -> Sign up here: signup.bug.recipes/fb5c73de33?kid…

Rivers connect land and see. Rivers connect mountains and beaches. At the very base of this is sediment, eroded from land, transported by rivers. Science can be poetic, you just have to read between the lines. Try it with our latest paper: link.springer.com/content/pdf/10… Cranfield Water

More than 10 years after completing #Dubai's man-made islands, there is hardly anything built on them. 👀 This is a revealing video. What should we learn from these 'prestige' #construction projects? What's your view? ねお youtube.com/watch?v=riETCR… #UAE #sandstories

In a country that is home to 18% of the global population, surprisingly little attention is paid to how #sandmining intersects with #FoodSecurity at a time when the agricultural industry is trying to meet the increased demand for food #sandcrisis #sandstories #construction #India

Congratulations to #JFRM Outstanding Paper Award 2020 highly commended paper winner: 'Interoperability: a conceptual framework to bridge the gap between multifunctional and multisystem urban flood management' Dr Emily O'Donnell Kim Vercruysse @NTU_DVC_RE onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/1…

Interested in reading more about river channel change in the Himalayan foothills? It's about geomorphology, dams, water abstraction, and sand mining! Check it out here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… (It's Open Access!)

The marvel that is Congo River, Nzàdi Kòngo formerly known as the Zaire River, the second longest river in Africa, shorter only than the Nile and send largest in the world by discharge volume after Amazon. #MamaAfrica💗

Do you work in higher education or as a researcher? Do you believe water is central to sustainable development? Then we are looking for you! Join us on our Research Forum Join For Water joinforwater.ngo/nl/nieuws/rese…