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PROPERTY & ENVIRONMENT: Water
Experts, Environmentalists Canvass Creation of Water Resources Commission
December 7, 2004�� Water experts, environmentalists and
journalists who, last week in Lagos, brain-stormed on water management issues
in the country, have called for the creation of a water resources commission in
Nigeria and the adoption of the globally accepted Integrated Water Resources
Management process. The one-day dialogue was organized by Country Water
Partnership Nigeria, the Nigerian partner of Global Water Partnership (GWP), an
international non-governmental organization on water � noted that oil
prospecting companies are degrading the Niger Delta environment and getting
away with it due to the non-availability of a Water Resources Commission �
"Until we have the right institutions doing the right things, we may never
be able to get there" � "Water scarcity and deteriorating water
quality will soon become critical factors limiting national economic
development, expansion of food production and provision of basic health and
hygiene services to the population. The recognition for the need to redress
these weaknesses in their water governance structures has convinced many
countries that a water management framework is needed" � defined
Integrated Water Resources Management as a "process which promotes the
coordinated development and management of water, land and related resources in
order to maximise the resultant economic and social welfare in an equitable
manner without compromising the sustainability of vital eco-systems" ...
lamented that whereas smaller countries in the continent such as Ghana,
Burkina-Faso and Senegal has good water policies that meet the Integrated Water
Resources Management goals, Nigeria is still paying lip-service to issues of
water.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200412071243.html
5.12.2004� Durch D�rren,
Urbanisierung, Verschwendung und Verschmutzung geht China das Wasser aus. Mit
Megaprojekten versucht die Regierung gegenzusteuern ...
http://www.ftd.de/pw/in/1101904139281.html?nv=5wn
Pakistan
seeks World Bank help to solve water dispute with India
2004-11-27�� Pakistan has sought the World Bank's help
in resolving differences over India's construction of a barrage over the Jhelum
River, which starts in Indian-controlled territory and feeds into Pakistan �
Islamabad objects to the construction of the 330-megawatt hydro-electric
Bagliar dam project, which started in 1985, and India refused any international
inspection of the dam project ... � If bilateral track is failed, then we will
seek a neutral expert through the World Bank" �
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-11/27/content_2268081.htm
First
phase of water diversion project's eastern route to operate in 2007
2004-11-26� The first phase of the eastern
route of China's gigantic South-to-North Water Diversion Project is scheduled
to be completed in 2007, starting to divert water from the Yangtze River to
east China's Jiangsu and Shandong provinces � The massive project, which began
construction in December 2002,will divert water from the Yangtze, China's
longest river, to the country's drought-affected north via eastern, central and
western routes ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-11/26/content_2265374.htm
2004
Nov. 26 - Ghana has been selected as one of eight African countries to
benefit from the first phase of the implementation of a one billion-Euro
Africa, European Union Water Initiative (A-EUWI). The first phase of the
project, which is aimed at bringing 77 African-Caribbean and Pacific (ACP)
countries to the same level of progress in the water and sanitation related
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), is worth 500 million Euros out of which
250 million Euros has been released �
http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=70568
2004 Nov. 23 -
Alhaji Mustapha Ali Idris, Minister for Works and Housing � advised local
institutions helping to address some of the multi-faceted challenges confronting
the Water Sector to establish the necessary linkages that would check the
duplication of efforts. In a speech read for him at a day's workshop on:
Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in Accra, Alhaji Idris said:
"More importantly, in our common desire to finding solutions to the
challenges, you must establish the knowledge base and proper dissemination of
results." �. The Ghana Water Partnership, (CWP-Ghana) a local
nongovernmental organisation (NGO) organised the workshop under the theme:
"Water Management - The Cornerstone of the Ghana Poverty Reduction
Strategy" with financial support from The Royal Danish Embassy, Danish
International Development Agency (DANIDA) and Water Resources Commission ...
http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=70370
24-11-2004�� PRESS RELEASE - Russian
Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov Meets with Klaus Toepfer, Executive
Director of the United Nations Environment Program
On
November 24, in Reykjavik, in the course of the Arctic Council 4th Ministerial
Meeting, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov met
with the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP),
Klaus Toepfer. In the course of the conversation issues related to development
of cooperation between Russia and UNEP in the field of environmental protection
� and the launching of a project for accounting of climate change in the
management of the water resources of the Lena and other Siberian rivers were
discussed. The sides agreed to continue and build up their active cooperation
in this area ...
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DOKUMENTE / VER�FFENTLICHUNGEN / LINKS
Children's Water Education Council
The goals of this organization are to foster decision makers, initiate
the process of behavioural change and to empower children to initiate change
within their homes, schools and communities. The concept is to encourage
children to become catalysts for change by taking information and a newfound
respect back to their own environment ...
http://www.sahra.arizona.edu/newswatch/index.html
UNESCO
and World Water Council launch water cooperation facility
24-11-2004��� An international mediating mechanism to help resolve problems over shared water resources will be launched by UNESCO, and the World Water Council (WWC), during a meeting at the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education in Delft, The Netherlands, on November 25 and 26. Known as the Water Cooperation Facility (WCF), this new body will include representatives from international organizations, national governmental institutions and non-governmental organizations active in water conflict management. It will advise conflicting parties on ways to reconcile their differences before resorting to expensive and often unproductive approaches such as litigation or continued struggle. The WCF will act only upon request of the parties involved in each situation. The need for such a body arises from the growing demand and competition for the planet�s limited freshwater resources, and the diverging interests of water users ...
http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=23729&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
http://www.unesco-ihe.org/vmp/articles/contentsHomePage.html
International
Hydrological Programme (IHP) - 16th SESSION OF THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL COUNCIL, 24 September 2004
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0013/001375/137591e.pdf
FUNDAMENTAL
PRINCIPLES FOR A GLOBAL CONVENTION ON THE RIGHT TO WATER, May 2004
http://www.barcelona2004.org/esp/banco_del_conocimiento/docs/CO_49_EN_2.pdf
http://www.barcelona2004.org/eng/banco_del_conocimiento/dialogos/ficha.cfm?IdEvento=155
Economic
and environmental security - Protecting the quality of
water in the OSCE area
http://www.osce.org/news/in_focus/2001-11-05_eea_seminar.php3
http://www.osce.org/news/forums/2002-04-15_eea.php3
Inheriting
the World: The Atlas of Children�s Health and
the Environment
http://www.who.int/ceh/publications/en/atlas.pdf
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VERANSTALTUNGEN
International Conference on
Integrated Assessment of Water Resources and Global Change: A North-South
Analysis
Bonn, Germany - 23-25.
February 2005
http://www.zef.de/watershed2005
in Landau / Pfalz - 14./15. April
2005
http://www.future-camp.de/grundwasser/
World Water Week in Stockholm 2005
21 � 27 August 2005
http://www.unesco.org/water/water_events/Detailed/904.shtml
Herzliche Gr��e von der Elbe
J�rg Barandat
http://de.geocities.com/joergbarandat/wassernetz.html