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Environmental Flow Event at World Water Week
Environmental Flows and Human Well-being …
16 Aug 2008 | Event
World Water Week: Seminar on Environmental Flows and Human Well-Being
Join us for a seminar on the links between human well being and healthy ecosystems on Tuesday 19th of August, 13.30-17.00, Room K21 of the Stockholm International Fairs and Congress Center …
15 Aug 2008 | Event
World Water Week: Sanitizing our water sources – 17-23
Background: “Progress and Prospects on Water: For a Clean and Healthy World” is the theme of the 2008 World Water Week conference, with special focus on sanitation. Held in Stockholm 17-23 August this year’s meeting recognizes the declaration by the United Nations of 2008 as the International Year of Sanitation (IYS). It focuses on the environmental and health crisis caused by the more than 200 million tonnes of human waste that ends up untreated in water systems, fouling the environment and exposing millions of people to disease. …
15 Aug 2008 | Media advisory
Global experts to stream into Brisbane for major river management forum
For the first time, Australia’s largest annual river management forum, the International Riversymposium will provide discussion and feedback from its key sessions to the 5th World Water Forum in Turkey next year. …
31 Jul 2008 | Event
The Ecuadorian National Water Secretariat is Created
Yesterday, the Ecuadorian government issued a decree for the "Reorganization of the National Council of Water Resources through the creation of the National Water Secretariat.” …
28 May 2008 | News story
GEF IW: LEARN / IUCN Regional Workshop on Designing Payments for Ecosystem Services
Are Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) a viable way of financing management of river basins and coastal environments? What steps are needed to develop PES schemes? What experiences and lessons learned have been generated from attempts to develop PES in the real world? …
03 Apr 2008 | Event
Tanzania: Working towards better ecosystems in Pangani river basin
A new project in Tanzania's Pangani river basin aims to improve water flows for the benefit of all its users. …
20 Mar 2008 | News story
World Water Day: Sanitizing our water sources
While billions of people lack access to proper sanitation, millions of kilometers of rivers are getting more polluted everyday. …
20 Mar 2008 | Media advisory
IUCN and Itaipú Dam stage Environmental Flows Training in Latin America
More than 30 people from the Latin America and Caribbean region took part in a regional learning workshop, from February 11-15, on Application of Environmental Flows in River Basin Management, in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil. …
11 Feb 2008 | Event
