University of Bergen

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University of Bergen is a university that is part of the pulse of the water sector. Here we bring together everything it publishes on Smart Water Magazine: its news, its blogs and the events it takes part in.

New study of river channel belts results in a valuable online map

A new study authored by Björn Nyberg and colleagues offers the world's first comprehensive classification of river channel belts at a 30-meter resolution.

University of Bergen · 10 May 2023

9 Jun 2022

Inaccurate global irrigation models can cause extensive societal harm

An international team of researchers from the University of Bergen and other leading institutions expose severe limitations in large-scale hydrological models that produce estimates for water withdrawals worldwide. In a comment published in Nature Communications, they argue that miscalculating the volumes of water withdrawn for irrigation, the largest consumer of freshwater in the world, jeopardizes sustainable […]