Announcements


International Conference on ‘Water Management in the Islamic Countries’ (Tehran, Iran, 19 - 21 February 2007)
International Conference on ‘Water Management in the Islamic Countries’ is being jointly organized by the Regional Centre on Urban Water Management - Tehran (RCUWM - Tehran), Islamic Scientific, Educational and Cultural Organization (ISESCO), UNESCO, and Power and Water University of Technology (PWU T).
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Workshop on Flood Forecasting Management in Mountainous Areas (April 17-19, 2006)
The Department of Hydrology and Meteorology (DHM) is organising a workshop on ‘Flood Forecasting Management in Mountainous Areas’ in Pokhara from 17 to 19 April 2006. Nepal, primarily a mountainous country lying in the headwater areas of the Ganges River basin, suffers from recurrent floods of flashy nature.
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Advanced Training Course on ‘Integrated Watershed Management’ (INWAMA) – (June – September, 2006)
Department of Geoinformatics of the University of Jena, Germany is arranging a course on Integrated Watershed Management (IWM) from June 5, 2006 to September 4, 2006 in Kanpur, India; Beijing, China. This course is being organised under the INWAMA which is an interdisciplinary Asian-European partnership project, offering advanced synergetic master’s level course in the field of Integrated Watershed Management (IWM) to assist efforts directed alleviating poverty caused by water scarcity and improving livelihoods.
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Fourth World Water Forum (March 16 - 22, 2006)
In October 2003, the Board of Governors of the World Water Council awarded the organization of the 4th World Water Forum to Mexico.

The World Water Forum is an initiative of the World Water Council that has the aim of raising the awareness on water issues all over the world. As the main international event on water, it seeks to enable multi-stakeholder participation and dialogue to influence water policy making at a global level, thus assuring better living standards for people all over the world and a more responsible social behavior towards water issues in-line with the pursuit of sustainable development.
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Kuwait First International Water Conference and Exhibition
Kuwait First International Water Conference and Exhibition will be held in Kuwait 28-30 March 2006 at the Radisson SAS Hotel. The conference will be an open forum for the discussion of current water policies, research, projects, and water management in Kuwait, and the GCC. Eminent presenting a paper or as an exhibitor or just be one of the audiences.
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“Training of Facilitators (ToF) Course on Online Learning in Water Management”
A Cap-Net – PoWER Collaboration
To better target the different training needs in the field of water and environment and reach a wider audience it is important to diversify training products. An option is to develop online learning products. Online learning requires new methods and techniques of facilitation and this training course prepares participants for those new challenges. The course is intended for experienced capacity builders representing institutions that have the intention and the facilities to run online training or education programmes on integrated water resources management related subjects.

The course will be held in Bandung, Indonesia. The nine week course will start from 17th October 2005 and will continue till mid December.
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WESNet-LG Training on 1) Water & Sanitation Project Cycle 2) Low Cost Water Treatment methods & Low Cost Water Schemes
WESNet has arranged a 2-day two trainings session on the above mentioned subjects on 18-19 July, 2005 & 27-28 July, 2005 respectively. These trainings are one of a series of trainings to be organized this year with a broad mandate of addressing some of the capacity building issues in particular, the TMAs and in general our WES counterparts and projects in the NWFP (Brochure and Nomination Form attached herewith).
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Strengthening Capacity for Research on Sustainable Sanitation and Grey-Water Reuse in Developing Countries - Call for Research Papers
This initiative aims at strengthening scientific capacity in the fields of sustainable sanitation and grey-water reuse in developing countries. The overall purpose is to improve the livelihood of poor people and the project will generate new knowledge relevant for a deepened understanding of cross-cutting biological, chemical, technical.
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Aquatech Asia 2005
Aquatech Asia 2005 is an international exhibition and conference on water technology is the Southeast Asian trade event for water technology and wastewater treatment. During the exhibition the various products and services will be on display, like water reclamation, membrane technology, wastewater and sludge treatment, desalination, disinfection technology, automated flood protection system, technologies to keep canal and reservoir water pollutants-free, water treatment in incineration plants. The event will be held in October this year in Bangkok Thailand. Countries from allover Asia will participate in this event.
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11th World Lake Conference
Many lakes are subject to high levels of rapid population growth, urbanization, industrialization, mining development, growth of irrigated agriculture, and impacts of climate change. These pressures have altered ecosystem processes and resulted in several threats on the lakes including: loss of biodiversity, over-fishing, eutrophication, proliferation of invasive weeds, toxic contamination and over-abstraction of water.
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Integrated Water Resource Management – Training Programme, (August 29 - September 16, 2005)
The world is facing a water crisis that seriously is affecting the production and living conditions, jeopardizing poverty reduction and sustainable development, especially in the poorer countries in the world. The poor and marginalized groups in the society are often vulnerable to water crisis and also limited in the aspect of improving their situation through better management of the resources.
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Global Training for Trainers in Local Water Management, Cairo – 30 April – 6 May
Cap-Net is organising in collaboration with IRC, NRI, Streams, NBCBN and CEDARE a training of Trainers course in Local Water Management. The rationale behind the course is that communities and local authorities have considerable roles in water resources management that will be affected by changes in management systems and that they need to be involved in planning and decision making. The objective of the course is to empower local authorities in IWRM and therefore the intention is to provide capacity builders with skills and techniques in community management of water resources.
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The World Water Week and The 15th Stockholm Water Symposium

The World Water Week in Stockholm is a leading annual global meeting place for the world's diverse water community. The World Water Week will be held in Stockholm and the 15th Stockholm Water Symposium in the Stockholm City Conference Centre, Barnhusgatan, located in the central city on August 21–27, 2005. The World Water Week includes the Stockholm Water Symposium, topical plenary sessions and panel debates, scientific workshops, independently organized seminars and side events, exhibitions and festive prize ceremonies. Participants will include experts coming from more than 100 countries and representing the business, civil society, governmental, inter-governmental, science and water management sectors.

http://www.worldwaterweek.org
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The Third International WOMEN AND WATER CONFERENCE

This conference will concentrate on building relationships across the boundaries of culture and geography. The conference will be held in Dehradun, India, from February, 25-28, 2005. There will be presentations by activists, workshops, skill development, and time to share our networks and strategies. This conference is being sponsored by CRABGRASS, a small San Francisco based organization working globally and locally on environmental, social justice and human rights issues.

This year the conference will focus on the following objectives.

• To gather women who are concerned about water;
• To disseminate what is known about water privatization in India and elsewhere,
• To explore partnerships for cleaner, healthier, affordable and more accessible water.
• To discuss and define how we can contribute to the UN Millennium Development
• Goal of reducing by one-half the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water and sanitation by 2015.

http://www.crabgrass.org/

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Asian Wetland Symposium, February 2005

The Asian Wetland Symposium is being held in Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India from February 6 - 9, 2005. This Symposium will provide an opportunity to explore and share innovative ways and means for the management, conservation and sustainable development of wetlands; this is the key to improving productivity and people’s livelihood opportunities.Atleast, 25 Asian countries have signed the Ramsar Convention. They meet triennially at the Conference of Parties (CoP) to discuss primarily the implementation of recommendations, resolutions and intergovernmental plans of action. the Symposium is being organized by Ramsar Center Japan in collaboration with Chilika Development Authority and Department of Forest & Environment, Govt. of Orissa, India .
Website: http://www.aws2005.com/

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International Conference on Regional Cooperation on Transboundary Rivers: Impact of the Indian River-Linking Project, Dhaka, 17-19 December 2004
The purpose of this conference is to bring together experts and activists from the South Asian region as well as from other parts of the world in order to examine the impact of the Indian River-linking Project from the point of view of regional cooperation aimed at harnessing the water resources of the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna basin for mutual benefit of the nations.
E-mail: bapa@sdnbd.org , memory14@agni.com,
Website: www.bapa.info