1st WA+ symposium held in Delft, Netherlands

Water Accounting + (WA+) is a framework developed by IHE Delft and its partners, FAO and IWMI, to fill in demand of deriving information from open-access public-domain datasets to account for water consumption, flows, fluxes and storages, segregating those into land and water use classes, types of water (blue and green) and land cover. WA+ is meant to support decision makers in the long-term planning of land and water management using Open Access Remote Sensing data. 

The framework uses WaPOR evapotranspiration and water productivity data. 

On the  12th and 13th July 2022, almost 10 years since the introduction of the framework, IHE Delft organized the first water accounting symposium which gathered individuals from the water accounting + community of practice to discuss accomplishments and ways forward. 

Jippe Hoogeveen, chief technical advisor to the WaPOR project, Bert Coerver, remote-sensing expert for WaPOR and Job Kleijn, counselor to the WaPOR project, all participated in the symposium in varying capacities on the themes of WA institutionalization, hydrological modeling, data and tools. 

Bert Coerver presented pyWaPOR, a python tool to generate WaPOR datasets, which can then be used in the accounting framework and Dr. Solomon Seyoum from IHE Delft (a partner to the WaPOR project) presented on “Rapid Water Accounting Plus” which mostly [uses] data from the “WaPOR Database”. Also, Mrs. Natalia Cárdenas, an agricultural engineer from Colombia, presented on the WAPluggin which is a QGIS plugin that facilitates the obtention of key WaPOR variables for water accounting. 

Image credit: WA+