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Water Action Contest --- Grand Prize - $50,000 ---

Win a trip to Japan, earn the grand prize of $50,000 and demonstrate your valuable water project to water experts from around the world.

The 3rd World Water Forum will meet in Kyoto, Shiga and Osaka Japan from March 16-23, 2003. The Forum is sponsoring the Water Action Contest in order to highlight positive, innovative and replicable water projects.

The top 100 finalists in this contest will be invited to make presentations of their projects during the Forum, with all expense paid. Water experts will select the best project, which will be awarded the grand prize of $50,000.

All organizations that work on the grassroots level are invited to enter this contest, including, but not restricted to, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), community groups, universities, private sector companies, local governments and more.

The entries can include the actual implementation of projects, awareness-raising campaigns and promotion of community and individual participation on water related issues such as water supply and sanitation, water-related diseases, irrigation, drainage, dams, river and lake basins, wetlands, groundwater, poverty, gender and capacity building.

You can access more information on the contest and application forms from the Forum's home page:

http://www.water-forum3.com/contest/

Applications will be accepted up to 10th January, 2003.

The Forum is seeking successful projects that exhibit originality and have impact, feature stakeholder participation and are sustainable.