Citizen Science

About Water quality is a crucial source of data for the Limpopo River Basin Digital Twin, directly informing environmental flow compliance, pollution alerts and ecosystem health monitoring. Yet conventional  laboratory testing is too slow and costly to scale across an entire region.  To address this, IWMI works directly with communities most affected by water quality […]

Water Copilot

Southern Africa’s first AI assistant for river basin management

Digital innovation and citizen science to preserve freshwater systems

A new IWMI project supported by Enabel aims to create a transboundary citizen science network across southern Africa, using digital tools to collect data that will influence policy decisions that directly affect their communities. IWMI is working closely with stakeholders such as the Limpopo Watercourse Commission (LIMCOM) to design the system for citizen science to […]

Water managers get hands on with the AI-powered Digital Twin for the Limpopo river basin

Irrigation monitoring, reservoir levels and more: water managers from Southern Africa share their impressions of the Digital Twin developed by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) along with the Limpopo Watercourse Commission (LIMCOM) and partners. They also reflect on the Limpopo Water Copilot, an AI assistant that translates science-based insights into simple text summaries and […]

Limpopo Digital Twin API

A powerful interface for connecting applications with multiple databases from diverse institutions.