The Columbia Global Floods Initiative aims to save lives and protect livelihoods by helping policymakers, disaster relief agencies, infrastructure designers, financial institutions and others better ...

As in much of rural Ceará, many of the residents of Milhã lack access to household water, and must spend hours traveling to distant wells and reservoirs to meet daily needs. By developing a ...

An excess or shortage of water can result in losses in potato yield and quality. As part of PepsiCo Inc.’s continuous effort to maintain a reliable supply of potatoes for the Frito Lay business, this ...

The overall objective of the project was to research and recommend sustainable, reliable solutions for rural drinking water supply system(s) which could be scaled up to increase coverage for rural ...

Given increasing water scarcity and the associated deterioration of the quantity and quality of water sources in many parts of the world, many “tools” have been developed to map water scarcity risk or ...

In partnership with the instructors of the Eagle Academy for Young Men of Harlem, the Columbia Water Center is investigating how water data platforms can augment the learning experience of students ...

The Columbia Water Center was engaged in a multi-year research project on interstate agreements for managing transboundary rivers in the western United States (funded by the National Science ...

A non-homogeneous hidden Markov model is used with monthly SST data (Rojo Hernández et al., 2020) to objectively classify spatial patterns of SST and their temporal dynamics, for the Tropical Pacific ...

Candace Agonafir has a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the City College of New York, a M.S. in Industrial Engineering from NYU, and a B.S. in Physical Science with a concentration in Physics and a ...

Water is a critical resource for mining operations, yet, often the risks associated with its temporal and spatial variability and the shared nature of water, are not adequately incorporated in ...

Expanding on previous research done by the Aquanauts on public water utilities, this project incorporates private water utility survey data into the national water rates analysis to determine the ...

Shelley has focused her career on intricate climate change and natural resource issues. In her current role, Shelley manages complex water policy issues, directs federal and state regulatory and ...