Informe del Curso Internacional sobre Gestión Integrada de los Recursos Hídricos y Foro Internacional sobre Gobernabilidad Hídrica Retrospectiva de los Conflictos de Agua.
Cochabamba Bolivia, 7 al 11 de Octubre de 2013
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October 15th is a special day in the WASH world. Handwashing with soap is the MOST effective and inexpensive way to reduce diarrheal disease and acute respiratory infections which take the lives of millions of children.
The First Workshop will be organized on 23 and 24 September 2013, back-to-back with the eighth meeting of the Water Convention’s Working Group on Integrated Water Resources Management (25 and 26 September 2013).
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In this issue N°113 (www.emwis.net/thematicdirs/eflash/flash113)
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HEADLINE
1- Water Information Systems to support IWRM indicators in the Mediterranean
CNN reports that Martian's soil contains large amount of water. The rover's Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument helped scientists probe the soil by heating a sample up to 835 degrees Celsius.The gases that came off included oxygen and chlorine as well as water vapor. Based on the ratio of isotopes within, scientists believe this water is coming from the recent Martian atmosphere. Scientists are also learning about the diversity of the soil on Mars.
The conference “exchange of experiences in water resources management between Africa, China, Latin America and Europe” was organised in the framework of the European Commission (EC) support project to the African Union/NEPAD Networks of Centres of Excellence in Water Science and Technology implemented by the EC Joint Research Centre (JRC). High level experts on water resources management from Europe, China, Africa and Latin America contributed to the conference held at the Joint Research Centre in Ispra (Italy) during 15 to 18 October 2012.
A water-filtration system that uses plants to extract arsenic from water supplies and allows the user to sell the poisonous substance at a profit has been voted the "Idea that will change the world" at the Global Design Forum in London.
[...] Clean Water uses special, arsenic-absorbing plants, which are grown in a container. Water is pumped through the container and arsenic is trapped in a filter, and then absorbed by the plants where it poses no danger.
GRIFN will embed graduate students from top U.S. universities into research institutions, government agencies, NGO’s, private sector companies, or universities where they will undertake innovative research that meets the needs of the host institutions. The Fellowships will run from 2-12 months, with topics that can range from engineering, telecommunications, health systems, climate change, water systems, infrastructure, and others.
Boletín n°1 - Septiembre 2013
English version
Introduccón al Proyecto MWAR-LAC
"The Food Wastage Footprint: Impacts on Natural Resources is the first study to analyze the impacts of global food wastage from an environmental perspective, looking specifically at its consequences for the climate, water and land use, and biodiversity.
Among its key findings: Each year, food that is produced but not eaten guzzles up a volume of water equivalent to the annual flow of Russia's Volga River and is responsible for adding 3.3 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases to the planet's atmosphere."
Water supply sanitation technology platform (WssTP) is very pleased to inform you that the European Commission has decided to renew WssTP’s recognition as a European Technology Platform (ETP) in line with the new ETP2020 strategy.
ETPs are industry-led stakeholder platforms that develop short-to long term research and innovation agendas and roadmaps for action at EU and national level.
As an ETP, WssTP endeavors:
·To increase members’ coordination and collaboration in water research.
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Upcoming early bird deadlines ! |
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1 August -IWA Cities of the Future Conference Istanbul, Turkey (15 – 18 Sept 2013)
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Cholera remains one of the most prevalent water-related infections in many tropical regions of the world, specifically coastal areas of South Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
The REFRAN-CV software allows processing time series of data from ground meteorological stations (precipitation data), in order to generate spatially-explicit products (return period maps) based on the L-moments statistics. This tool and the associated products at local and regional scale can be used in the development planning process and, concretely, to prepare investment in multi-purpose (irrigation, flood and drought prevention, environment protection) hydraulic infrastructure.
[Refer to the attached documentation for more info]
Backround
If you know how much something costs, you can budget and plan ahead. With this in mind, a team of researchers from MIT, the World Bank and the International Food Policy Research Institute recently developed a country-level method of estimating the impacts of climate change and the costs of adaptation. This new method models sector-wide and economy-wide estimates to help policymakers prepare and plan for the future.
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