4th Annual Water Lecture Series: Perspectives on Law and Policy – Achieving Alliances for Better Water Management across Sectors and Boundaries   When: Monday, April 3, 2017 4:00 p.m. to ​5:30 p.m. Where: Texas A&M School of Law Conference Center Keynote Speaker: Karin Krchnak, ​Freshwater Director for World Wildlife Fund – U.S.  

Making the Leap into the Nexus – World Water Day: March 22, 2017 Rabi H. Mohtar offered the keynote address, focusing the discussion on the lessons learned from the Nexus to reduce dependencies and increase synergies between water and other sectors, calling for a change of the allocation paradigm that has been with us for centuries, but which will no longer carry us forward sustainably. Access the broadcast from the Vatican [http://worldwatervalues.org/].

FEW Nexus Workshop on Integrated Science, Engineering and Policy: A Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue For a short briefing of the workshop, click here. Date: January 26-27, 2017 Location: The Hilton at 801 University Dr. E., College Station Register for the symposium by accessing the portal at: https://agriliferegister.tamu.edu/productListingDetails/2206 Can’t make it? Click below to join virtually to participate from anywhere in the world: See who is attending the symposium here. The Workshop, supported and coordinated by NSF, USDA-NIFA, Texas A&M University, includes several additional partners.  It will build the partnerships and… Read More →

HYDROSTRCTURAL PEDOLOGY, Braudeau, E., Assi, A.T., and Mohtar, R.H. Collection Système Terre – Environnement dirigée par André Mariotti (currently available only in French, the book is being translated into English.) 188 pages – Avril 2016; Ouvrage papier en couleur : 39,00 EUR ISBN : 978-1-78405-140-2 (papier) ISBN : 978-1-78406-140-1 (ebook) Recently theorized, the hydrostructural soil science has appeared in the earth sciences. It emerges from the junction of classical soil science – science naturalistic description of internal hierarchical organizations soil and their distribution in the landscape – with systemic thermodynamic water… Read More →

April 8, 2016 – Visiting scholar, Dr. Adnan Degrimenciogh, of the WEF Nexus research group will be presenting a seminar titled “Optimization of the Seed Spacing Uniformity Performance of a Precision Planter.”  Dr. Degirmencioglu is visiting the WEF Nexus Reasearch Group from Ege University in Izmir, Turkey. The seminar is being hosted by the TAMU WEF Nexus Initiative. The full announcement can be found here.

WMHS faculty and students celebrated Water Daze 2016 this week.  Students presented posters (which can be found on the Water Program’s Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/The-Water-Program-Texas-AM-University-137611023013440/?fref=photo  The Event was co-sponsored by: Texas Water Resources Institute,A&M School of Law , Bush School of Government and Public Service.  Congratulatoions on poster awards: Bassel Daher, 1st Place, Kimberly Rhodes, 2nd Place, and Xiao Shen, 3rd Place

 Working Together to Build a Sustainable Water Future FACT SHEET: Water challenges are facing communities and regions across the United States, impacting millions of lives and costing billions of dollars in damages. These challenges are particularly problematic in predominantly poor, minority, or rural communities, where water inequality can go hand-in-hand with socioeconomic inequality. Recent events, including record-breaking drought in the West, severe flooding in the Southeast, and the water-quality crisis in Flint, MI, have elevated a national dialogue on the state of our Nation’s water resources and infrastructure…. Read More →