7th World Water Forum, Daegu, Korea | April 13, 2015 Global conditions, throughout history, have always changed. However the rates of these changes during the past 2 to 3 decades have steadily accelerated, especially when compared to the historical past. … Read More
January 12, 2015 | Vibrant Gujarat, Gandhinagar, India The Seminar on Water Security, Climate Change and Sustainable Development brought together the world’s leading academics, very senior officers of major international organizations, presidents of important NGOs and captains of the world’s … Read More
July 1, 2012 | Singapore There are numerous meetings that are held in different parts of the world each year on water-related issues. However, overwhelming number of these meetings are simply activities which have no impacts, contribute to no progress … Read More
March 14, 2012 | Marseille, France World is changing very fast but the water profession and management practices are changing only slowly and incrementally. Already there are very significant mismatches between these two developments. These differences will increase even further … Read More
May 9. 2011 | Granada, Spain A main objective of the proposed workshop is to analyse water pricing and cost recovery, and the roles of the public and the private sectors in urban water provisioning in an objective, critical, undogmatic … Read More
May 4, 2011 | Berlin, Germany Leading experts from water and water-associated sectors were invited to discuss current and future solutions for water management problems from their own perspectives. The invitational meeting provided an excellent forum for the exchange of … Read More
February 28, 2011 | Zaragoza, Spain There is now scientific consensus that the world’s climate will steadily change over the next several decades. While there is consensus on the impacts of global warming and its impacts in terms of overall … Read More
November 23, 2009 | Campo Grande, Brazil It has often been fashionable in recent years to speak of water wars and political and social conflicts over water. The hypothesis of this meeting is that through proper inter-institutional coordinating mechanisms, the … Read More
November 9, 2009 | Zaragoza, Spain During the past decade, considerable global attention has been given on potential physical scarcities of water to meet various global needs in the coming years. Many have argued that by 2030, much of the … Read More
July 7, 2009 | Dead Sea, Jordan InWEnt, Capacity Building International, Germany, and the Arab Water Council are implementing an 8-year programme (2005–2012) on capacity building in the water sector for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region, with … Read More