In the December issue of its UPDATE Magazine, UNESCO-IHE published an interview with IGRAC Director Dr. Neno Kukurić. In 1993, he obtained his Master's Degree in Hydrological Engineering at this institute and was therefore invited for an alumni interview to look back at his time at UNESCO-IHE. "It was much more difficult to say goodbye to IHE than to embrace it," he recalls.
Currently, IGRAC is developing a serious groundwater game, called 'The Tragedy of the Groundwater Commons Game'. This game that is part of the GroFutures project aims to improve the participants' insight in the social dilemma of the tragedy of the commons through different groundwater management scenarios. In order to test the game and to see what could be improved, IGRAC recently organized a try-out workshop with some students of UNESCO-IHE.
IGRAC has launched its new animated video entitled 'Groundwater, the Hidden Resource'. This video is part of IGRAC's #HiddenResource campaign that aims to create more awareness about the importance of groundwater, because although 50% of the world's population depends on groundwater every day, there is still a lack of attention for this precious resource.
IGRAC Intern Barbara Agstner has writen a report on Groundwater Economics, entitled: 'Significance and State of Affairs of Groundwater Economics in the Governance of Transboundary Aquifers'. With this report IGRAC aims at contributing to the growing body of scientific research, by enquiring into the role of groundwater economics in the governance of aquifers with a specific focus on transboundary aquifers. The full report is freely available online.
