NAHRIM and WKHCCA
NAHRIM was established by the Government of Malaysia in response to the country’s increasing number of water-related challenges, including floods, drought events, deteriorating water quality in rivers and coastal bodies, competing users, erosion, accretion, sedimentation, and not least, the impending anticipated impacts of climate change on water. Operating under the direction of NAHRIM’s Research Centre for Water Resources, WKHCCA SEA has building capacity in areas of water management impacted by climate change due to global warming as its goal.

WKHCCA Services
 The main priority of the regional water knowledge hub for climate change adaptation is to develop well-informed personnel in relevant agencies around the region to help it brace itself for the impacts of climate change. More specifically, the hub will:

  • Develop and offer courses and training programs in the areas required and specific to the region, that are relevant and self-sustaining;

  • Assess the impacts of global climate change and land use change on water balances and water quality in Southeast Asia through regional interactive climate, hydrology, and water quality models, such as NAHRIM’s Regional Environmental Hydroclimate Model (RegEHCM), part of which is already complete;

  • Train technical personnel from interested agencies around the region in the use of state-of-the-art data and technology from regional environmental hydroclimate models and water resources systems models designed to combat the impact of climate change in the region;

  • Help develop clients’ and partners’ awareness of water-related issues in agricultural, coastal resource, biodiversity, forestry, public health, energy, and socio-economic planning, drawing on the expertise of regional and international teaching personnel ;

  • Create feasible policies for the optimal management of the region’s water resources and the mitigation of the potential impacts of climate change against a variety of likely future water demand and land use scenarios;

  • Develop a simulation model for water resources systems at the regional, country, and watershed scales that will include both water balances and water quality conditions (water temperature, dissolved oxygen, turbidity, nutrient loads, etc.) under global climate change and future urban-industrial-agricultural water demand and land use scenarios; and

  • Predict possible scenarios of land use change and urban-industrial-agricultural water demands in Southeast Asia in the 21 st century at a fine space (grid resolution ~3 kilometers) and time (hourly/daily) resolution.

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