Videos
KnoWat: achieving better production in AsiaPacific through data driven insights enhance water productivity
01/12/2022
In Sri Lanka, FAO is building capacities of local irrigation experts to monitor water productivity, identify water productivity gaps and propose solutions to reduce these gaps with real-time data from the FAO WaPOR platform through the KnoWat project.
FAO Science & Innovation Forum side event: Water Productivity in Practice from FAO WaPOR Open Data
13/10/2022
Virtual side-event that focused on the practical implementation of the different dimensions of water productivity, with a case study from the WaterPIP Ethiopia Service Center.
World Water Week 2022 announcement of WaPOR going global
01/09/2022
In this section of the talk show "Open data to support SDG6, towards UN Water Conference 2023" at the 2022 World Water Week, each panelist succinctly discusses the importance of WaPOR data in the road towards SDG6. Ms. Kitty van der Heijden announces that the Government of the Ne...
Open data to support SDG6, towards UN Water Conference 2023
01/09/2022
2022 World Water Week talk show on WaPOR that focuses on the role of open data on water and agriculture in supporting SDG 6 monitoring and accelerating progress towards targets. The discussion includes practical examples of available tools and resources, as well as challenges of country level implementation.
World Water Day 2022 seminar on 'Groundwater: making the invisible visible’
22/03/2022
Seminar on the past, present and future of groundwater management for World Water Day. Time-stamped for the presentation on "Innovations using Remote Sensing in managing groundwater resources" by Marloes Mul, IHE Delft.
Open Data Day 2022: WAPlugin launch
05/03/2022
Demo session with the developers of the WAPlugin, Natalia Cárdenas Niño, Fabian Humberto Fonseca and Akshay Dhonthi, launching the 2.0 version. The WAPlugin provides access to all the FAO WaPOR data an...
WaPOR 2 kick-off webinar: from satellites to fields, innovations supporting farmers
22/11/2021
Recording of the fully virtual event during which the second phase of the WaPOR project was presented. Also available in Arabic,
AQUASTAT water accounting portal demo
02/11/2021
This video aims to introduce users to what the AQUAMAPS water accounting portal can offer both in terms of functionalities and data. It focuses on the different sub-basins of the Krishna ri...
The use of WaPOR data to monitor agricultural production in near real time
03/09/2021
This video is a walkthrough that shows how WaPOR data can be accessed in the FAO Hand in Hand platform and used in near-real time to take the pulse of the current growing season by comparing metrics such as biomass production between years.
World Water Week 2021: real time water data from satellites to achieve faster resilience
26/08/2021
Webinar organized by FAO at the World Water Week. The session's presentations showcased examples of water accounting in AQUAMAPS and water productivity analysis using remote sensing, and in particular the FAO WaPOR portal. Find out more details and summaries of the session
Cairo Water Week 2020: Coping with Water Scarcity with Water Accounting & Auditing
21/10/2020
Technical session #3 of the 4th day of the conference organized by FAO, IWMI and IHE Delft. The session uncovers, through two case studies from the NENA region, what can be found on the "supply side" and on the "demand side" using water accounting and auditing and what it means for decision ma...
Cairo Water Week 2020: The Role of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Water Conservation in Agriculture Management
19/10/2020
Cairo Water Week 2020: bringing together policy objectives and data to improve water productivity
18/10/2020
Technical session organized by the DAO, the University of Wageningen, IHE Delft and MetaMeta on a new approach for conducting policy dialogues which bring together multiple policy objects and best available data, including data from remote sensing, in a systemic way to analyse different uses of w...
ESA 2020 online event: water resource management and productivity
07/10/2020
Webinar organized in the framework of the ESA "Earth observation for agriculture under pressure" online event. The session was chaired by the chief technical officer of WaPOR and featured a presentation on "understanding pressures through water lenses: the impact of conflict and climate e...
FAO webinar: monitoring water productivity using FAO WaPOR
24/06/2020
Webinar organized by FAO and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Government of The Netherlands to showcase WaPOR as a technology and innovation that has the potential to transform agricultural water use.
The Water Channel open webinar: more crop per drop, farmer-learning and the promise of improved water use in agriculture
18/06/2020
This webinar shows the experience of IWMI in working with a large number of water users, water user group leaders and irrigation managers in Koga, Ethiopia introducing them to technical innovations to enhance on-farm irrigation management decisions.
Virtual workshop on "the use of ICT tools in agriculture & water management in Lebanon using the WaPOR
28/04/2020
Workshop organized by IWMI and LARI. Find the presentations here. Dig deeper by reading the article
The Water Channel open webinar: using WaPOR to boost water productivity
12/11/2019