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VERANSTALTUNGEN
"State of the World 2005:
Redefining Global Security"
Herausforderungen f�r
die deutsche Politik
27. April 2005
im Ausw�rtigen Amt, Berlin
http://www.krium.de/front_content.php
Evangelische Akademie Loccum
Internationales Young Leaders Forum in
der Evangelischen Akademie Loccum
29. April - 1. Mai 2005
www.loccum.de/program/p0519.html
Interdisziplin�res Kolloquium 8. - 10.
April 2005
in Zusammenarbeit mit dem WBGU
http://www.loccum.de/program/p0516.html
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CONGRATULATIONS� -�
HERZLICHEN� GL�CKWUNSCH!
.. CSE has been awarded the prestigious 2005 Stockholm Water Prize for
its work in promoting a new paradigm of water management, based on
community-led rainwater harvesting ...
http://www.siwi.org/press/presrel_05_SWP_Winner_Eng.htm
http://www.cseindia.org/misc/water-prize.htm
CSE: http://www.rainwaterharvesting.org
March 25, 2005: Ms Sunita Narain, Editor of the science and
environment fortnightly, �Down To Earth', is the recipient of the Media
Foundation�s 2004 Chameli Devi Award for an Outstanding Woman Mediaperson ...
http://www.cseindia.org/misc/mediaperson-award.htm
CSE
- Down To Earth Magazine,
In
deep water - A national programme on restoring waterbodies is mired
in flaws
In the 2004 budget, tabled
last July, finance minister P Chidambaram had announced with fanfare the Rs 100
crore National Programme for Renovation, Restoration and Repair of Waterbodies
linked to Agriculture. But not much has happened since ...
http://www.downtoearth.org.in/full6.asp?foldername=20050331&filename=news&sec_id=50&sid=29
Auszeichnung f�r Projekt
�Friedenssicherung und Nachhaltigkeit� - Wehrbereichskommando
II arbeitet mit der UNESCO
03.03.2005- Auf Europas bedeutendster
Bildungsmesse "didacta" in Stuttgart ist gestern das Kooperationsprojekt "Friedenssicherung und
Nachhaltigkeit" ausgezeichnet worden. Damit z�hlt die im Herbst vergangenen
Jahres zwischen dem Ministerium f�r Umwelt und Forsten Rheinland-Pfalz und dem
Wehrbereichskommando II geschlossene Vereinbarung zu den ersten offiziellen
deutschen Beitr�gen zur UN-Dekade "Bildung f�r nachhaltige
Entwicklung" ...
http://www.streitkraeftebasis.de/C1256C290043532F/vwContentFrame/A19E4F7A32752BCEC1256FB9002BDBEB
http://www.bundeswehr.de/C1256EF4002AED30/CurrentBaseLink/W26ACBK7062INFODE
Weitere Links:
http://www.krium.de/upload/Texte.Beitrage/Conrad.pdf
http://www.umdenken.de/akademie/main,id,38,selid,1632,istext,1.html
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NACHRICHTEN
400,000 to
relocate for water project
2005-04-06
--- Up to 400,000 people are facing relocattion to make way for a project
diverting water from the Yangtze River to China's parched north, it was
revealed yesterday ... "The South-North water diversion project will involve
over 100 counties in seven provinces and municipalities with 300,000 to 400,000
locals to be relocated," ... by 2050, the system will be capable of
transferring 44.8 billion cubic metres of water annually, equivalent to "a
second Yellow River" ...
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-04/06/content_431574.htm
Senate proposes water policy
shift, fees for consumers
April 4, 2005� The state
would dedicate water resources to protect critical bays and estuaries, and
Texans could face millions in new fees on water consumption under a Senate bill
introduced today to guide the state's future water use ...
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/3117499
Family event teaches water
preservation
April
3 2005 About 2,200 people came to Tree Tops Park on a
recent Saturday to learn about the importance of water for people, animals and
plants. Water Matters Day 2005 featured educational exhibits and workshops that
taught homeowners the role they play in water management and showed children
how to conserve water, protect the environment and be responsible when
purchasing pets or encountering animals in the wild ...
Environmental
journalists give priority to water safety
2005-03-31-- Water safety will be the priorityfor this year's "Chinese
Environmental Century Tour," which is conducted annually by a group of
environmental journalists from top news media in the country, announced the
organization committee of the "Chinese Environmental Century Tour" �
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-03/31/content_2769751.htm
States vital to get water plan up
March 30, 2005 - Deputy Prime Minister John
Anderson has said he is confident Tasmania and Western Australia would get
behind the federal government's national water plan to ensure it was up and
running by 2014. The $2 billion National Water Initiative includes the
establishment of a National Water Commission that would then oversee the
creation of a national water market ...
Overcoming the Water Problem
March 25, 2005 -- ... The water
problem has of late become of great concern not only to Ethiopia but also to
many African countries. At a recent conference attended by 1000 delegates in
Addis Ababa, water experts said that Africa was facing a water crisis affecting
300 million people. A recent WHO/UNICEF report reveals that more than 2.6
billion people in the world do not have basic sanitation and more than one
billion people still use unsafe drinking water � Water originates outside the
borders of many countries - for instance, the Nile, which is the world's
longest river and in principle the base on which the Egyptian civilization is
founded is becoming a source of serious disageement between countries situated
along the river or its tributaries. A treaty in 1929 between Egypt and the then
colonial power Britain made sure no other countries along the river were
allowed to use the water for irrigation or power generation. But the treaty is
being increasingly contested. A German organization, the Konrad Adenauer
Stiftung, said recently that the treaty must be regarded as obsolete and only
post-colonial agreements can be considered valid ...
http://allafrica.com/stories/200503250379.html
Reflections On the World
Water Day: Respect the Environment
March 24, 2005 -- Water is
life, we must treat it with care ��
Experts have warned that if pragmatic measures are not taken to
effectively conserve and manage water resources, two-thirds of the world's
people are likely to be living in areas of acute water crisis by 2025 ... One
of the targets of the Millennium Developing Goals is directly linked to safe
drinking water and basic sanitation and specifically calls to halve, by 2015,
the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe water and basic
sanitation. The UN Secretary General, Mr. Kofi Annan, as contained in his
opening statement for the decade echoed this aim. "We shall not finally
defeat AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, or any of the other infectious diseases that
plague the developing world, until we have also won the battle for safe
drinking water, sanitation and basic healthcare" �
http://allafrica.com/stories/200503240636.html
Free water for all in Africa?
24
March, 2005 -- This week's World Water Day marked the
start of the United Nations' international decade of action dubbed "Water
for Life" � Competition for water is also a potential source of conflict in Africa -
with rising tension between Egypt and other countries along the Nile about the
use of the river's waters ... Will Africa meet the 2015
target? Is privatisation of water services the best solution? Are you prepared
to pay for access to clean water? And are you worried that Africa might go to war
over water? �
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4375409.stm
Strategies for Water
Conversation, Water Management
March 23, 2005 Water Affairs
and Forestry Minister Buyelwa Sonjica � said water was a vulnerable and
precious resource, especially in the context of South Africa's semi-arid
climate and that the country's mean annual rainfall was below the world's
average ... was addressing delegates attending the launch of the National Water
Conservation and Water Demand Management Strategies in Johannesburg today. This
is part of National Water Week. She said the strategies launched today, were
fundamental in promoting efficient water use. "They are consistent with
the National Water Act of 1998, particularly in line with the National Water
Resource Strategy that was launched in September 2004 and the Water Services
Act which emphasises the effective management and efficient use of our water
recourses and water services provision" �
http://allafrica.com/stories/200503230141.html
22 March - World Day for Water 2005: Water for Life
UN-News Centre:
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=13724&Cr=water&Cr1=
UNESCO:
http://www.unesco.org/water/water_celebrations/
UNESCO - WATER: IT'S ATTITUDE THAT COUNTS
Statement from the World Water
Assessment Programme on the occasion of World Water Day, 22 March 2005 �
http://www.unesco.org/water/wwap/news/wwap_wwd_05.shtml
Success for UNESCO Water Portal on World Water Day
The UNESCO Water Portal recorded on all time high level of traffic on
World Water Day (675,829 hits on 22 March alone). That day, the number of
visitors represented 4000% the number of visitors of a regular day and 70% of
UNESCO�s overall internet traffic was directed to water issues. The largest
number of visitors came from France, Germany, United Kingdom, Japan, Spain,
Canada, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Belgium, Brazil, Argentina, China,
Finland, Chile, Venezuela, Mexico and India but we received visits from all
around the world ...
http://www.unesco.org/water/news/newsletter/86.shtml
UNESCO-E-Cards: 2005-2015:
International Decade for Action � Water for Life �
http://portal.unesco.org/e_cards/showgallery.php?cat=516
Development: EU Urged to Stop Water Privatisation
March 21, 2005 -- Civil
society groups are calling for a change of course in the European Union's
approach to water and sanitation in developing countries. A consortium of civil
society groups, led by the Dutch campaign groups Corporate Europe Observatory
(CEO) and Both ENDS, and the Belgian non-governmental organisation (NGO)
11.11.11, says the European Union (EU) must end its preoccupation with private
sector expansion and instead support "workable public water delivery
options" � the group of NGOs says the "water privatisation wave"
during the last decade has "proven a failed experiment." "Concrete
experiences in developing countries have shown that multinational water
corporations are ill-equipped to deliver clean and affordable water to the
poor. Private sector investment has not brought the expected financing for
water and sanitation for the poor" �
http://allafrica.com/stories/200503210047.html
Kein Blut f�r Wasser
21. M�rz 2005 --Eine Milliarde Menschen weltweit hat keinen Zugang zu
Trinkwasser. Ein Grund f�r Kriege? UN und US-Wissenschaftler geben Entwarnung. Werden
Kriege k�nftig nicht mehr um �l, sondern ums Wasser gef�hrt? Experten der
Vereinten Nationen und der USA halten die Schreckensvision f�r wenig
wahrscheinlich. Zum einen, weil es nach ihrer Analyse in nur einem Krieg der
vergangenen 5000 Jahren ausschlie�lich um Wasser ging. Zum anderen, weil
"die Erde gen�gend Wasser bietet, um die Grundbed�rfnisse aller ihrer
Bewohner zu erf�llen", wie der Pr�sident des unabh�ngigen Pacific
Institute im kalifornischen Oakland, Peter Gleick ...
http://www.stern.de/wissenschaft/natur/537968.html
Wer Wasser hat, hat Macht
20.03.2005 -- Das Lebenselixier Wasser ist auch ein
politisches Instrument - und der Streit darum ist oft erbarmungslos. Das treibt
manche zu einer Horrorvision: Wird demn�chst nicht mehr f�r �l Krieg gef�hrt,
sondern f�r Wasser? ... Die schwindenden S��wasser-Vorr�te "m�ssen nicht
unbedingt ein Grund f�r Spannungen sein", meint auch UN-Generalsekret�r
Kofi Annan, der sauberes Wasser als Teil der Menschenw�rde bezeichnet hat. Die
Wasserknappheit k�nnte sogar einer Zusammenarbeit den Weg bereiten.
Internationale Abkommen, die Nutzungsrechte der Staaten detailliert festlegen,
haben nach Ansicht von Beobachtern schon so manche Eskalation verhindert ...
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,1522666,00.html
Water Shortages Are
Potential Threat to China's Growth, Stability
18 March 2005� China
has the world's fourth largest fresh water reserves, but rapid economic
expansion is straining those supplies, with more than 400 cities facing severe
shortages. China's unquenchable thirst may threaten growth and stability in the
most populous nation on Earth ... American environmentalist Lester Brown, author
of the book, "Who Will Feed China?," says China's rapid
industrialization is endangering its ability to feed itself. "In a country
where the goal is economic growth and job creation, you do not use scarce water
to produce grain," he explained. "You use it to expand industrial
output, and that's exactly what's happening in Northern China now. Indeed, in
the high river basin, it's quite possible that, by 2010, there'll be very
little irrigated agriculture left at all" � Water loss is also threatening
industrial production. China is building more hydroelectric dams to meet
soaring energy needs, but these depend on seasonal water flow. In one case last
year, falling levels on the Yellow River forced the Huangheyuan hydropower
station in Qinghai to suspend operations only three years after going into
service. China's government is making highly publicized and expensive efforts to
ease the water problem ... Time is running out for Beijing, with some analysts
predicting the city may be forced to begin water rationing by the time the 2008
Olympics come around.
http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-03-18-voa41.cfm
Federal
Grant Program Encourages Efforts to Protect Nation's Water Bodies
03/09/2005
-- New York State Department of Environmenttal Conservation (DEC) Acting
Commissioner Denise M. Sheehan today called for nominations for the United
States Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Targeted Watersheds Grant
Program. The program encourages protection and restoration of water bodies in
the United States through the use of watershed approaches ...
http://www.eisinc.com/release/storiesh/NYSDEC.506.html
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u� NEUE�
DOKUMENTE / VER�FFENTLICHUNGEN
UFZ-Umweltforschungszentrum Leipzig-Halle GmbH
Integriertes Management von Wasserressourcen in Flussgebieten
http://www.ufz.de/index.php?de=4951
Herwig Unnerstall: Verursachergerechte Kostendeckung f�r
Wasserdienstleistungen - Die Anforderungen des Art. 9 WRRL und ihre
Umsetzung
http://www.ufz.de/data/Disk_Papiere_2005-062499.pdf
Nora Schiessler, Andreas Renner, Arved
L�th, im Auftrag des UFZ: M�glichkeiten und Grenzen partizipativer Verfahren
zur �berwindung asymmetrischer Wasserkonflikte
http://www.ufz.de/data/ufzbericht-10-042149.pdf
Susanne Neubert / Lena Horlemann
(2005):
DIE Discussion Paper No. 4/2005
Deutsches Institut f�r Entwicklungspolitik (DIE),
Bonn
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u� Links mit aktuellem Bezug
UNDP - Mainstreaming Gender in Water Management.
� The Gender and Water
Resource Guide has been developed to assist practitioners in mainstreaming
gender within the context of integrated water resources management (IWRM). The mainstreaming
of gender is critical to reach the Millennium Development Goals as well as the
Johannesburg Plan of Implementation ...
http://www.undp.org/water/docs/resource_guide.pdf
Siehe auch:
http://www.adb.org/Water/Gender/default.asp
http://www.wecf.de/issues/water.php
http://www.genderandwateralliance.org/
Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO)
Women for Water, Water for Women (WfWfW)
http://www.bpwnl.nl/water/index.htm
Herzliche Gr��e von der Elbe
J�rg Barandat
http://de.geocities.com/joergbarandat/wassernetz.html