ESKOM and the Department of Science and Technology cordially invited you to attend a public lecture presented by

Professor Gustaf Ohlsson (Lund University, Sweden)

focusing on

Water and Energy linkages
 

The aim of the seminar is to create an awareness of the important couplings between water and energy. It shows how energy is used in a variety of water cycle operations and demonstrates how water is used – and misused – in all kinds of energy production and generation.

Join us for an introduction to WASHTech’s tools and a launch of the online resource base 

Wednesday 11 December, 12.30-13.30 pm CET 

Register at: https://www4.gotomeeting.com/register/871758759 

Background 

Taking place during the 25th anniversary of Water and Sanitation for Africa, the 2013 Africa High-Level Forum on Water and Sanitation For All will be convened under the theme "Promoting South-South Cooperation to Accelerate Progress in the Water and Sanitation Sector in Africa." The Forum expects to emphasize the need for changing policies and strategies to ensure resource mobilization for the water and sanitation sector.  

dates:21-23 November 2013  

location:Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire  

contact:Ali Dissa  

The hub for information dissemination and knowledge exchange in Integrated Water Resources Management in Southern and Eastern Africa

THEME for this year’s symposium: “Building Partnerships and Strengthening Cooperation for Integrated Water Resources Management in East and Southern Africa”.

• The NEPAD Western and Southern Africa Water Centres of Excellence
• final project reports

The International Water Association (IWA) is pleased to announce the winners of the 2013 IWA Project Innovation Awards – Development.

This event is organized in the framework of the European Commission (EC) support project to the African Union/NEPAD Networks of Water Centers of Excellence implemented by the EC Joint Research Centre (JRC). This is the final workshop of a series of workshops held in 2013 in Western Africa.

This workshop will encounter the joint contribution of the Western and of the Southern NEPAD Networks of Centers of Excellence in Water Science and Technology.

In this final Workshop the following themes will be addressed:

Various international bodies are engaged in the assessment of existing and the elaboration of future water-related development goals, including an SDG. With a view to assess and summarise these activities as well as to provide guidance for future work the Government of Hungary, in cooperation with the UN system and the World Water Council, organises a global conference: the Budapest Water Summit in Budapest, the capital city of Hungary, between 8-11 October 2013.