Act globally, think locally: Challenges to water resources management in West Africa

Press Release "World Water Day"

Referring to this year’s motto of the World Water Day “Water and Culture”, the Center for Development Research (ZEF) of the University of Bonn would like to present to you some recent results of the social and cultural research work being done within the framework of its GLOWA Volta project in Westafrica.

Naturally we would like to give you more background information on our research by arranging for an interview with the quoted scientists or with the project leader and ZEF director Prof. Dr. Paul Vlek.

The ZEF-led GLOWA Volta project is part of the GLOWA („Global Change in the Hydrological Cycle“) framework program of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). For more information please have a look at www.glowa.org and www.glowa-volta.de.

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