WASSER AKTUELL
72 -��� 30.05.2005
Stockholm �
Where the Water World Meets
August 21�27, 2005
� World Water Week in
Stockholm is the leading annual global meeting place for the world's diverse
water community. The World Water Week includes the Stockholm Water Symposium,
topical plenary sessions and panel debates, scientific workshops, independently
organised seminars and side events, exhibitions and festive prize
ceremonies.Participants in Stockholm will be experts coming from more than 100
countries and representing the business, civil society, governmental,
inter-governmental, science and water management sectors �
http://www.worldwaterweek.org/
Ank�ndigung
14. Juni 2005, 11 Uhr
Bundespressekonferenz in Berlin
Pr�sentation des Friedensgutachtens 2005
... der f�nf deutschen
Friedensforschungsinstitute: FEST, IFSH, HSFK, BICC, INEF ...
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u� NACHRICHTEN
May 29, 2005 - Iran's Energy Minister
Habibollah Bitaraf said that good precipitation has helped Afghanistan
implement the bilateral accord on sharing the waters of the Hirmand River. The
minister told ISNA that Iran would eventually manage to receive its share of
the river�s water in the year to March 2006. A senior water industry official
said earlier that Afghanistan cannot disrupt the flow of water to Friendship
Dam, which is constructed mostly by Iranian engineers on a river shared with
Turkmenistan, by constructing a dam on Hirmand River. Reza Ardakanian, deputy
energy minister for water affairs, told reporters that Kabul has signed several
treaties with Tehran on cooperation on common water reserves, stressing that
Iran is willing to participate in water projects in the war-torn country ...
http://www.iranmania.com/News/ArticleView/Default.asp?NewsCode=32201&NewsKind=Current%20Affairs
May 29, 2005 A draft plan that calls for a
significant shift toward more effectively enforcing of the state's water
pollution laws is due this week. The State Water Resources Control Board draft
plan calls for shifts in staffing at its nine regional water boards to closely
focus on enforcement. The draft plan also envisions prioritizing violators to
efficiently pursue penalties against polluters and correct the most egregious
water quality problems. Born from a November initiative by then-California
Environmental Protection Agency Secretary Terry Tamminen, the plan reflects
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's approach to water quality enforcement ...
http://www.times-standard.com/Stories/0,1413,127~2896~2894530,00.html
2005-05-29 --
Pakistan and India on Sunday failed to reach any agreement to resolve their
dispute over the water boundaries of Sir Creek, but the two sides agreed to
continue their discussions aimed at an early resolution of the issue for the
mutual benefit �
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-05/29/content_3018373.htm
May 29, 2005��
Tough water restrictions backed up by a regime of fines will be
announced midweek to protect Sydney from its worst water crisis since the
1930s, when breweries were forced to stop producing beer. The new measures will
be accompanied by a water-use education program in the mass media aimed at
householders who waste water by over-using dishwashers and washing machines and
topping up swimming pools ... Energy and Utilities Minister Frank Sartor will
tell householders his water clampdown will come into force on July 1, giving
them four weeks to learn the new arrangements and to rearrange their gardening
as well as their use of household appliances ...
May
28, 2005� - Eight governors have signed
a resolution asking the Army Corps of Engineers to do what it can feasibly and
legally to conserve water in the Missouri River reservoirs. The resolution
follows a Missouri River Summit convened by South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds in
February. He proposed changing the barge navigation season below Sioux City,
Iowa to save water in the largest and northernmost reservoirs, which are 20
feet to 30 feet below normal elevation because of several years of drought and
below-normal runoff from mountain snowmelt �
http://www.yankton.net/stories/052805/news_20050528007.shtml
Feds
ready to fight dam project
May 28, 2005� WINNIPEG -- The federal government is
readying itself for a possible legal fight with the United States over a
contentious water diversion project in North Dakota, Environment Minister
Stephane Dion said Friday. Dion said he's not giving up
on a diplomatic solution to the cross-border dispute, which has escalated in
recent weeks as the July 1 startup date for the Devils Lake outlet draws ever
closer. But he said the federal government "has a strong determination"
to halt the project until it is subjected to a thorough environmental
assessment by the International Joint Commission, a bilateral organization that
resolves cross-border water disputes. "We may consider legal options, but
we are not there yet," Dion said during a news conference �
http://www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=2c79d869-afee-42ad-8e44-91bbce12707a
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u� NEUE� DOKUMENTE / VER�FFENTLICHUNGEN
Simon A. Mason, Adrian M�ller: Umwelt- und Ressourcentrends 2000 -
2030
Konsequenzen f�r die Schweizer Sicherheitspolitik
Informationen:
http://www.isn.ethz.ch/pubs/ph/details.cfm?r_oID=10463
Ver�ffentlichung:
http://cms.isn.ch/public/docs/doc_10463_290_de.pdf
Denis
T�nzler, Alexander Carius: Ausbauf�hige Partnerschaft - Friedens- und
Konfliktforschung im Kontext internationaler Nachhaltigkeitsforschung
politische
�kologie Heft 93
http://www.adelphi-research.de/projektberichte/poe93_taenzler_carius.pdf
Umweltbundesamt:
Die Wasserrahmenrichtlinie - Ergebnisse der Bestandsaufnahme 2004 in
Deutschland
...
Resultate der Bestandsaufnahme der Gew�sserbelastungen durch die Bundesl�nder
in den zehn relevanten Flussgebietseinheiten ...
http://www.umweltbundesamt.org/fpdf-l/2888.pdf
FAO / UNESCO 2005: Groundwater in international law: Compilation of treaties and other
legal instruments
�
international law has paid much less attention to ground- than to surface water
... slowly a body of rules dealing with this vital
resource is emerging that indicates a trend towards more comprehensive
international regulation ...
http://www.unesco.org/water/ihp/publications/groundwater_law.shtml
ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/008/y5739e/y5739e00.pdf
UNESCO 2004: ISARM Africa - Managing shared aquifer resources in
Africa
Workshop - Tripoli, June 2002
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0013/001385/138581m.pdf
UNESCO / Italian Ministry for the Environment and Territory 2005:Water
Programme for Africa, Arid and Water Scarce Zones, 2004-2006
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0013/001391/139124e.pdf
Hedelin, Beatrice: Potential
Implications of the EU Water Framework Directive in Sweden. 17pp (Refereed
Articles May 2005 - no 14)
http://www.nordregio.se/EJSD/refereed14.pdf
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Links
� maintained by UNEP � facts,
figures and maps about: global water withdrawal and consumption, the evolution
of global water use and industrial and domestic consumption compared with
evaporation from reservoirs, freshwater withdrawal �
http://www.unep.org/vitalwater/index.htm
Gobar Times: magazine supplement for children
UN-Water/Africa
� coordinate and harmonize water activities in Africa by various UN and
other subregional NGOs ...
http://www.uneca.org/awich/igwa.htm
Water for African Cities (WAC)
� joint initiative of UNEP� and
UN-HABITAT � to contribute to the achievement of the water and sanitation
related UN Millennium Development Goals in urban areas, with a particular focus
on Africa �
Sahara and Sahel Observatory - OSS
� build up an African arena for cooperation and exchange to
combat desertification and poverty by working with Member States and
organizations �
http://www.unesco.org/oss/v_uk/presentationang.htm
Great Man-Made River International Prize for Water Resources in Arid and Semi-Arid Areas
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya � recognizes � having made fundamental and
substantial contributions to the assessment, development, management and/or use
of water resources in arid and semi-arid areas ...
http://www.unesco.org/water/ihp/prizes/great_man/
� developed by the Nature
Conservancy's Sustainable Waters Program (Arlington, Virginia) � online source for information and resources related to ecologically
sustainable water management ...
2.
Alternative Weltwasserforum
17.-20.
M�rz 2005 in Genf
...
Ziel, Institutionen und eine Politik zu f�rdern, die den Zugang zu Wasser f�r
alle Menschen und eine demokratische, solidarische und nachhaltige Nutzung des
Wassers bef�rworten ...
Herzliche Gr��e von der Elbe
J�rg Barandat
http://de.geocities.com/joergbarandat/wassernetz.html