Space technology for water resources management

The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) are organizing a conference to promote the use of space technology in water management to the benefit of developing countries.

The Conference will be held in Accra, Ghana, from 10- 13 May 2022, hosted by the University of Energy and Natural Resources on behalf of the Government of Ghana.

The expected outcome of the workshop is to make observations and converge on recommendations for the Groundwater Summit which will take place later in 2022, as well as for the 2023 Midterm Review of the Water Action Decade.

• More information about the Conference is found here.

To re-empower and support Indigenous women in their role as water stewards, as well as to learn from them and include them in the water governance dialogue, UNOOSA is inviting them to a participatory workshop, as a side event to the Conference.

The aim of the workshop is to collect indigenous communities' user needs in terms of water resources management and derive from that requirements for the space sector to develop solutions by which Indigenous communities can be supported.

• More information about the side event is found here.