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Cooperation and Synergies: CapWEM and RALCEA

Submitted by Water Team on 15 May, 2013 - 15:37
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Steinbrecher, Jürgen, Dr
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2012

CapWEM started a cooperation with the EU project named RALCEA - Latin American Network of Knowledge Centres in the Water Sector. RALCEA is funded by EuropeAid in the frame of the EU Water Initiativ

Water Industry - Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions workbook

Submitted by Water Team on 13 May, 2013 - 16:45

The UKWIR Carbon Accounting Workbook (CAW) provides UK water companies with a consistent and transparent approach for accounting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from their operational activities. The latest version (CAW v7) enables the water industry to continue to calculate its operational emissions using up-to-date guidance and regulations on GHG accounting in the UK and to report to regulatory bodies and customers.

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: 

 

Community maps reveal rich resources of land policymakers think is empty - IIED

Submitted by Water Team on 29 April, 2013 - 13:44

 

Misperceptions of the drylands as barren and empty are leading to their mismanagement. An IIED mapping project aims to create a clearer picture of their value to pastoralists.

"It's all in the mind," George Harrison once said. When most government planners look at Kenya’s Isiolo County, they see barren, dusty land. But pastoralists who live there see something else entirely. How do we know? It’s on their map.

La mitad de las aguas españolas se encuentra en mal estado- El Pais

Submitted by Water Team on 23 April, 2013 - 10:11

"Las evaluaciones realizadas por la Fundación Nueva Cultura del Agua

Solar Disinfection (SODIS) technique- Safe water Haiti

Submitted by Water Team on 11 April, 2013 - 16:29

 

Video: ¿Y si el agua se acaba?

Submitted by Water Team on 25 March, 2013 - 16:56
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Video Promocional de la Caminata del Agua durante la Water Week Latinoamericana (Viña del Mar - Chile Marzo 2013): http://www.caminatawwla.com/

Conference on joint action towards water knowledge management

Submitted by Water Team on 6 March, 2013 - 15:07
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Start 22/05/2013 - 14:04 End 25/05/2013 - 14:04

 

CONFERENCE on JOINT ACTION TOWARDS WATER KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

Submitted by Water Team on 6 March, 2013 - 14:57

Hosted by the NEPAD Southern African Network of Water Centres of Excellence (SANWATCE), in conjunction with the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre, this e-Conference will take place during the United Nations’ World Water Day on 22 March 2013 as part of the UN International Year for Water Cooperation.

Following from the first e-Conference in November 2012, the upcoming e-Conference will focus on the need for joint action towards water knowledge management, and challenges and problems that are being faced. Specific aims are to

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