3 A Look Back at the First 25 Years: 1996-2021 A Look Back at the First 25 Years: 1996-2021 Challenging the status-quo in the water sector UNU-INWEH partnered in 2012 with the Global Environment Facility to examine the effectiveness of its roughly 200 major international water-related projects. [...] These assessments also pointed out that water research outputs will remain isolated in the field’s own “box” as long as impacts of the research are assessed by the numbers of papers published and cited by other researchers (e.g., H-index), rather than by the number of successful and practical applications of the research. [...] 7 A Look Back at the First 25 Years: 1996-2021 A Look Back at the First 25 Years: 1996-2021 Supporting sustainable land management UNU-INWEH’s decade-long work on sustainable management of drylands and land degradation through 2015 included collaborations with UNESCO and ICARDA and the rehabilitation of degraded dry. [...] The basin’s significance stems from the importance of these countries (three being among the planet’s most populous; one boasting the world’s second largest economy, and three being members of the exclusive nuclear weapons club), and from the region’s massive dependence on irrigated agriculture amid climate change and water scarcity challenges. [...] The Federal Government recently committed to “create a new Canada Water Agency to keep our water safe, clean, and well-managed,” and to “identify opportunities to build more resilient water and irrigation infrastructure.” Beyond improving management of the country’s water resources, realisation of the new Agency will also inevitably strengthen Canada’s stance on the global water stage.
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