Dear Colleagues
I have received the following communication from Andrea Leone (JRC) re the International Workshop which forms part of our project:
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We will start organizing the conference after march, now we are very concentrated on the World Water Forum in Marseille and we run out of time.
What I can tell is that:
- It will be in Italy (Ispra)
EP Water Group, is pleased to invite you to the next meeting. The Keynote speakers will be Mr. Jean-François Donzier, WWF6 Regional Coordinator for Europe and Mr. André Flajolet, French Parliamentarian, WWF6 Parliamentarian process Coordinator. The theme of the meeting: 'Preparing the 6th World Water Forum, Marseille 12-17 March 2012’.
Date: Tuesday, 28th February 2012.
Time: 17:30-19:00
Location: European Parliament,
The 6th World Water Forum in Marseille will be the Forum of Solutions. The online platform Solutions for Water was developed for everyone to take part and to enable the sharing of solutions on the widest scale possible.
Today the Platform of Solutions counts over 1,500 active members. Since its launch in August 2011 there have been nearly 20,000 visitors from 170 countries - approximately 500 per day. Nearly 1,200 solutions have already been submitted and numbers are growing from day to day.
Focusing on practical actions, the 6th World Water Forum aims to be the Forum of solutions and commitments. Thus, to collect and share concrete contributions from all horizons, an international Platform for Solutions is now open www.solutionsforwater.org. Open to all, this interactive tool enables everyone to propose and access feasible solutions, related to the Forum priorities and targets.
SIWI is inviting individuals and organisations to host a seminar or side event, or to submit an abstract for one of the scientific workshops.
Virtual Water: Tackling the Threat to Our Planet’s Most Precious Resource by Tony Allan is a small book which helps us understand the concept of virtual water and thinking about water in new ways.
"Once we understand this virtual water concept we can start to understand how much water we each actually use each day, each week, each month." (Catley-Carlson, 2011)
A SIWI publication that we highly recomend if your are still not sure what virtual water really means.
The Stockholm International Water Award recognises the business sector's contribution to sustainable water management, by minimising water consumption and environmental impact. It is given to any sector of business and industry. It recognises improved performance in production processes, new products, and management, as well as innovative approaches in water and wastewater process technologies which together help to improve the world water situation.
Within the Erasmus Mundus programs, wethere are fellowships both at MSc and PhD level. The deadlines for these doctoral programs are due shortly. Fellowships are available within the following programs:
- International MSc in Environmental Technology and Engineering (IMETE): see:http://www.imete.ugent.be
- International Joint Doctorate in Environmental Technology (ETECOS3):
El Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) ha anunciado que su nuevo estándar, llamado WaterML 2.0: Parte 1 - Series de codificación de tiempo estándar, está disponible para sugerencias y comentarios.
Esta nueva norma está destinada a las representaciones de observaciones hidrológicas, específicamente para series de datos. El 2,0 WaterML se implementa aplicando el esquema de la OGC Geography Markup Language (GML) la versión 3.2.1 y hace uso de las plantillas y los estándares de codificación para observaciones y mediciones (O & M) de la OGC.
Organisations and individuals are invited to submit proposals for organising a seminar or side event at the 2012 World Water Week, or to send in abstracts for oral or poster presentations for the scientific workshops.
Submitting proposals for seminars or side events
Submitting abstracts for the scientific workshops
New site categorization: a new way to categorize content and users have been introduced. Thematic Area and Geographic Area will be used to define categories on contents together with a free tagging vocabulary.
As you can notice from the image on the left in every content creation form you can specify "Thematic area", "Geographic area" and "Tags"
Everyone at least once heard in his life the words “Green Revolution” not as many could say to have heard about the “Brown Revolution”. The first revolution characterized the way of guaranteeing food production through new technologies such as improved crop varieties (HYVs) developed and widely used in developing countries in the middle of the 20th century.
Take a look at the 8 potential river that might run dry in the near future!
@ The National Geographic Society’s freshwater initiative http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/photos/rivers-run-dry/?source=hp_dl4_environment_rivers20120111#/freshwater-rivers-colorado-1_45140_600x450.jpg
A PhD or postdoc position is avalaible at VITO, Belgium, on the subject of the integration or fusion of in situ and earth observation data to support the development of tools for water quality management. This PhD or postdoc will be performed in close collaboration with the University of Ghent, Belgium. Candidates with a background in environmental sciences, statistics and/or remote sensing are welcomed to this PhD or postdoc position.
A PhD or postdoc position is avalaible at VITO, Belgium, on the subject of the integration or fusion of in situ and earth observation data to support the development of tools for water quality management. This PhD or postdoc will be performed in close collaboration with the University of Ghent, Belgium. Candidates with a background in environmental sciences, statistics and/or remote sensing are welcomed to this PhD or postdoc position.
Mr Anders Berntell, Executive Director at Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), will be leaving SIWI after ten successful years for a position as Executive Director of 2030 Water Resources Group at the International Finance Corporation within the World Bank Group.
SIWI is at the present recruiting a new Executive Director.
For the full article please visit http://www.siwi.org/sa/node.asp?node=1384
For further information please visit http://www.siwi.org/
The theme for the 2012 conference is: " Water and Food Security". February 15, 2012 Deadline for submitting workshop abstracts or event proposals for the 2012 World Water Week.
The International Water Resource Economics Consortium (IWREC) is the premiere global platform for water economists to initiate, share, disseminate and debate new research on water economics. The IWREC 10th Annual Meeting (28-29 August) will be hosted by the Stockholm International Water Institute and held during the 2012 World Water Week in Stockholm. It will feature a Chief Economists Panel debate, keynote speeches and presentations from leading experts in the application of economic analysis in water management and decision making.
A new call for proposals of the ACP-EU Water Facility has been published, with a focus on sanitation in poor peri-urban and urban areas in ACP countries.
For more information please follow the link for the guidelines and all relevant documents:
The International Seminar was co-organised by the French Water Academy and UNESCO drawing upon a steering committee constituted of 9 relevant institutions. This seminar aimed at identifying solutions to be forwarded to the 6th World Water Forum and to the main events of climate negotiations (Durban, Rio+20, etc.).
8 Diciembre, 2011
Señor Presidente, Excelencias, Señoras y Señores
Nuestro sistema climático ha sido seriamente perturbado y muchos países están pagando un precio altísimo y creciente debido a ello.
Señor Presidente, permítame ilustrar lo que está ocurriendo en mi propio país con un gráfico - que está siendo distribuido - que muestra cómo a lo largo de los últimos 50 años pasamos de ser impactados por un evento hidrometereológico extremo por década en los años 1960 y 1970, a nueve en los últimos diez años.
IWA establish the Project Innovation Awards (PIA) to recognise excellence and innovation in water engineering projects throughout the world.
This year, the IWA 2012 PIA features a NEW award category - MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS.
This category applies to Marketing and Communications related to a water/wastewater project, operations/management of related facilities, customer service activities, or public education campaigns.
Entries may be submitted for competition in one of the following six awards categories:
BMGF: Stimulating local innovation on sanitation for the urban poor in sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia
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