By African Association of Remote Sensing of the Environment (AARSE)

Today, Africa faces major pressing issues: climate change impact, water scarcity, energy shortage, environmental stresses and food crisis, which affect citizens, business and the community at large. Efforts were made by African countries to work out strategies and policies coordinated in the fields of the environment and the sustainable development. On all these challenges, constitution of coherent seamless and up-to-date spatially enabled information is an essential precondition for setting up coordinated policy and strategy.

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Newsletter May 2010

Website of the EIS - Africa : http://www.eis-africa.org

Consultation DEADLINE  : 31st July 2010

Sustainable cities - Clean and affordable water

http://www.siww.com.sg/

WSSCC Call for Expressions of Interest: Global Sanitation Fund “Executing Agent” and “Country Programme Monitor” in Burkina Faso

Deadline for Submission of Expressions of Interest: 27 April 2010

The Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) established the Global Sanitation Fund (GSF) in 2008 to provide grant support to scale up successful sanitation and hygiene approaches targeting poor people in countries with the greatest sanitation and hygiene needs.

WSSCC is now soliciting Expressions of Interest from qualified firms/consultants for in-country components of the Global Sanitation Fund in one of these countries, Burkina Faso.

In this issue:

• Putting the environment at the centre of water management
• Strategic Financial Planning for Water Supply and Sanitation
• Planning for water management by River Basin Organisations
• News from MyCBNet Annual General Meeting
• WaterNet Course on Water Resources Assessment, South Africa
• Upcoming activities

Putting the environment at the centre of water management

In the history of water management, the environment has barely been considered when management choices had to be made –with negative consequences for both the quality and quantity of available water. The Ecosystem Management perspective, has for long argued that managing water is about managing ecosystems.

Dear WG,

we are now close to releasing the final version of the interactive guidelines.

Summary:

This international conference intends to unite scientific researchers that are working throughout the globe to increase the water availability in drylands. Secondly, it aims at generating useful output that can stimulate new techniques to be adopted, and allow learning from successes and failures.

Thirdly, it is intended to develop a network of water augmentation experts. The conference should lead to an increased consensus in the scientific community regarding sustainable techniques that alleviate the lack of water in drought-prone regions and help to build resilience in societies vulnerable to climate related risks.