Source: World Water numero Jan-fev

Fine bubble aeration saves up to 70 percent in energy consumption
An Italian-Palestinian-Israeli initiative worth US$526 million will provide sewage treatment in the Palestinian territories. Part of this major project begins with a pilot plant in Uja that will use Mapal’s floating fine-bubble  aeration system instead of mechanical surface aerators. The new technology could save up to 70 percent in
energy consumption and up to 80 percent in maintenance costs, and can be used in municipal and industrial biological reactors with no need for a concrete basin or draining prior to installation.

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by Sigurd Neubauer,Foreign affairs specialist, 31 January 2011

As the only surviving organization of the "Oslo Accords," MEDRC was established as a research and capacity building institution in 1996 to share expertise on desalination technologies and clean fresh water supply with the people from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), the most arid region in the world. While emphasizing how the converging of interests brought the opposing parties together in Tel Aviv, the MEDRC director noted that "cooperation beyond water is just a matter of political will.

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The task facing scientists and technologists is both to provide robust tools for predicting and planning for regional and local shortages, and to ensure that these tools are appropriate for the situations in which they must be used.

The XIV Congress will address Adaptive Water Management: Looking to the Future. The ISC, composed of members from regional and international bodies, universities and research organizations, has planned four central themes:

1) adaptive water management
2) water resources and global change
3) governance and water law
4) knowledge systems.

Plenary sessions and keynote speakers will set the broader context to frame individual, more detailed sessions.

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By  Juanita During- Source www.allafrica.com

lll too often I have seen latrines built and used as broom cupboards or goat sheds while the people carry on the way they have always known - using the great outdoors. Those trying to help scratch their heads and wonder why the latrines aren't being used. If only it were that straightforward, then we would probably have made a lot more progress on the sanitation MDG target than we have so far. Local knowledge is everything.

The workshop will take place from February 14-18^th 2011 at STIAS, Stellenbosch University (www.stias.ac.za). The workshop is supported by the European Commission, its Joint Research Center as well as NEPAD and  DFID. We are expecting a wide range of participants from the water sector research world throughout Southern Africa as well as potential research funders.

The workshop is a 4 day event with the first two days being focused on SPLASH and the last two days on the NEPAD Centres of Excellence. The workshop will be highly interactive and will, through exchange of lessons learnt and experiences, aim to:

• test SPLASH training material on research management and find innovative ways of delivering the material to target audiences

• ensure that good practices identified through recent research will benefit the recently created Network of African Centres of Excellence for Water

These guidelines are designed for use in processes of planning and dialogue within and between local and intermediate levels. They describe a practical and logical framework of activities based on the involvement of those who use and manage water, which leads to improved local water governance, and to the development of integrated water development plans for towns, villages, district and governorates. The guidelines advocate a process of collaboration through dialogue, to bring about a change in the way water sector professionals and water users work with each other.

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The two-day conference will include a plenary session, panel discussions, technical sessions and poster sessions. Papers can be presented orally in the technical sessions or as posters in the poster sessions.