IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/rwinxx/v51y2026i5p692-710.html

Unlocking the potential of isotope hydrology for water management in Small Island Developing States

Author

Listed:
  • Christoph Samba Henrich
  • Helen Deise Sundberg
  • Megan Patricia Cox
  • Devindranath Dindyal
  • Astrid Harjung
  • Jean-Francois Helie
  • Oliver Kracht
  • Alejandro Garcia-Moya
  • Jana Ólavsdóttir
  • Melanie Vital
  • Jhénelle A. Williams
  • Antoine De Ramon N’Yeurt
  • Hilda Waqa-Sakiti
  • Yuliya Vystavna

Abstract

Small Island Developing States (SIDS) face significant water insecurities due to many climate and anthropogenic stressors. Isotope hydrology is a technology that supports effective water management by using physical tracers (stable and radioactive isotopes) to better understand water sources, their movement and quality. Despite their different contexts, SIDS share a set of common barriers impeding the uptake of isotope hydrology applications including limited institutional frameworks, technical capacity, logistical challenges, funding limits, and issues around creating consistent baseline data. We propose to overcome these barriers through regional approaches, addressing data gaps and management, enhancing technical capacities and fostering collaboration and innovation.

Suggested Citation

  • Christoph Samba Henrich & Helen Deise Sundberg & Megan Patricia Cox & Devindranath Dindyal & Astrid Harjung & Jean-Francois Helie & Oliver Kracht & Alejandro Garcia-Moya & Jana Ólavsdóttir & Melanie V, 2026. "Unlocking the potential of isotope hydrology for water management in Small Island Developing States," Water International, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 51(5), pages 692-710, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rwinxx:v:51:y:2026:i:5:p:692-710
    DOI: 10.1080/02508060.2026.2664961
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/02508060.2026.2664961
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/02508060.2026.2664961?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to

    for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:rwinxx:v:51:y:2026:i:5:p:692-710. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/rwin20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.