Water resources management

Evaluación del Comité de Seguimiento RALCEA, Viña del Mar, Chile

Submitted by Water Team on 5 March, 2013 - 17:44
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Evaluación del Comité Directivo RALCEA, Viña del Mar, Chile

Submitted by Water Team on 5 March, 2013 - 17:41
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WHO/UNICEF Progress Report on Sanitation & Drinking Water 2013

Submitted by Water Team on 15 May, 2013 - 16:51

Some 2.4 billion people will remain without access to improved sanitation in 2015, according to a new joint WHO/UNICEF report. According to the report, the world remains off track to meet the Millennium Development goal (MDg) sanitation target.

The report titled Progress on sanitation and drinking-water 2013 update is available here in english.

 

the Nexus 2014: Water, Food, Climate and Energy Conference

Submitted by Water Team on 7 May, 2013 - 16:03
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Start 03/03/2014 - 08:01 End 07/03/2014 - 18:01

The Water Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and collaborators will host the Nexus 2014: Water, Food, Climate and Energy Conference on March 3-7, 2014 to examine the thoughts and actions related to a nexus approach. The co-Directors of the conference will be Jamie Bartram, Director of The Water Institute, and Felix Dodds, Associate Fellow at the Tellus Institute, with support from an International Advisory Committee.

Water Conflict Chronology on a table, timeline and a map

Submitted by Water Team on 29 April, 2013 - 14:51

In an ongoing effort to understand the connections between water resources, water systems, and international security and conflict, the Pacific Institute initiated a project in the late 1980s to track and categorize events related to water and conflict, which has been continuously updated since. Their new format, updated November 2009, presents the information three ways, to better illustrate how conflicts over water impact history: 

 

7th European Waste Water Management Conference & Exhibition

Submitted by SANWATCE Secretariat on 29 April, 2013 - 13:32
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Start 14/10/2013 - 08:00 End 15/10/2013 - 17:00

 

CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS - Deadline 30th April

Mining and Logging Companies “Leaving Chile without Water” - IPS

Submitted by Water Team on 24 April, 2013 - 14:33

 

More than 100 environmental, social and indigenous organisations protested Monday in the Chilean capital to demand that the state regain control over the management of water, which was privatised by the dictatorship in 1981.

Brazil's drought reaches historic levels

Submitted by Water Team on 23 April, 2013 - 16:45

The worst drought in 50 years is affecting several states in northeast Brazil.

Some of these areas have not seen rain in over a year, while for others, it has been just a few drops since November.

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