On March 5 and 6, 2026, the city of Bogotá, Colombia, hosted a technical meeting that brought together experts and institutions to share progress and identify opportunities and challenges in implementing a participatory monitoring system in the Putumayo and Amazon rivers. The event was held as part of the national [...]

World Water Day, celebrated on March 22, is a date established by the United Nations (UN) and, in 2026, features the theme “Water and Gender,” which will guide debates, campaigns, and actions throughout the year, highlighting the importance of ensuring the equitable participation of women and men in water resource [...]

The Amazon Basin Project (ACTO/UNDP/GEF), in association with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the University of Maryland, held an online course in February 2026 on the use of the HydroBID hydrological model and the WHAT-IF tool, as part of the preparation for the national and regional Intersectoral Roundtables scheduled [...]

The eight Amazonian countries, working within the framework of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO), have been jointly strengthening their human and institutional capacities for Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in the Amazon Basin. This effort seeks to ensure the robustness and reliability of regional networks for monitoring water quantity [...]

As part of the Amazonian Training Plan for Integrated Water Management, from the Amazonian Network of Water Authorities (RADA), the Amazon Basin Project held, on February 2, with the support of the World Bank, the virtual course “Leveraging cloud data analysis for water: an introduction to the Google Earth Engine [...]

On December 11, the Amazon Basin Project (ACTA/UNEP/GEF) held a Seminar on the Exchange of Cooperation Experiences for the Management of Transboundary River Basins at the headquarters of the National Water and Basic Sanitation Agency (ANA-Brazil) in Brasilia. bringing together regional organisms responsible for the management of important shared river [...]

The roundtable discussion “Results of the Amazon Project and Prospects for Water Resource Management in the Amazon Basin” was held on December 10, during the closing event of the Amazon Project (ACTA/ANA/ABC), at the headquarters of the National Water and Basic Sanitation Agency (ANA – Brazil) in Brasília. The activity was [...]

Water is the central element through which most of the impacts of climate change manifest themselves: more intense droughts, extreme floods, imbalances in rainfall patterns, accelerated glacier loss, and physical-chemical alterations in rivers. In the Amazon, the largest transboundary river system on the planet, these impacts are multiplied throughout the [...]

Four glaciological, meteorological, and hydrometric monitoring stations have been installed in the Vilcanota and Carabaya mountain ranges in southern Peru to measure in real time the melting and availability of water from the Killa Huasi and Allincapac glaciers, located between 4,800 and 5,300 meters above sea level. These stations will [...]

The Amazon Basin Project (ACTO/UNEP/GEF) has just launched the Amazon Communicators Connection Communication Manual, a practical guide for professionals working directly in the field, in contact with the public benefiting from the Project's actions and interventions. These professionals—National Assistants and communicators from associated institutions—form the Amazon Communicators Network, a network [...]