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We present a contribution to promote education and community adaptation from a Global Souths case-study to populate the Digital Water Globe. From a NSFC-FAPESP project Flash DRought Event evolution chAracteristics and the response Mechanism to climate change considering the Spatial correlations (DREAMS)', we discuss lessons for the IAHS HELPING Decade. DREAMS aims to respond to science-for-policy" and education-for-action questions around Sustainable Development Goals of what adaptation pathways are feasible to cope with human-water impacts under change. DREAMS is organized into Research Methods of Drought resilience through Community-based Adaptation (CbA), Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA), Nature-based Solutions (NbS) and Participatory Action Research (PAR). DREAMS seeks for enhancing local case studies for the IAHS/Digital Water Globe with the multidimensional impacts of flash droughts addressed to SDGs nexuses of poverty, health, education, sanitation, economy and climate action. Here we discuss a DREAMS-CbA initiative in the headwaters of the Corumbata river basin (PCJ River Basin Committee, MG-SP, Brazil) for building community knowledge of climate change and pro-environmental behaviours adapted into both new climate activism and teachers curriculum. In 2023, DREAMS started CbA strategies in different education levels for tradeoffs for droughts duration, namely: in the primary schools, with teachers and pupils of local schools at the headwaters of selected river basins; in higher education, through the community-adapted curricula. In primary schools, with a CbA strategy based on educational methods of Science, Technology, Society and Environment (CTSA, Cincia, Tecnologia, Sociedade, Ambiente , in Portuguese), the DREAMS researchers conducted the local project rvores da Amizade e gua: Preservar para no faltar! (Friendship Trees and Water: Preservation and Conservation) with environmental education and climate-adaptation in the PCJ river basins headwaters with teachers, staff and pupils of the public school EMEF Profa Zez Salles, Analndia-SP (Taffarello, 2023). DREAMS communication and open science literacy are expanded by: a new UNESCO Chair; the USP Center for Education and Research on Disasters (http://www.ceped.eesc.usp.br/); the Braz. Water Resources Assoc. Technical Commission on Education, and three Braz. Inst. of Sci. Tech., INCTs, of Climate Change-Phase 2(CEMADEN), Food Insecurity (FSP/USP) and Nat. Observatory for Water Security Adaptive Mgmt, ONSEAdapta (UFPE, https://onseadapta.org). With Panta Rhei groups, and during the 100-year drought of Amazon river, DREAMS promotes archetypes of the Coevolution of the Amazon-Sanitation-Hygiene Paradox. DREAMS future work envisages more local examples for DWG, i.e. river basins of Yangtze (China), So Francisco (Brazil), Amazon and Parana (transboundary). References: Mendiondo, E M (2023) Flash DRought Event evolution chAracteristics and response Mechanism to climate change considering Spatial correlations, FAPESP 2022/08468-0, https://bv.fapesp.br/en/auxilios/111385/flash-drought-event-evolution-characteristics-and-the-response-mechanism-to-climate-change-consideri/; Taffarello, D (2023) rvores da amizade e gua: preservar para no faltar!, CTSA Adaptation to Climate Change Impacts in Analndia-SP, EMEF Profa Zez Salles, Environmental Education Project, Report.
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