Netzwerk Wasserkooperation




WASSER AKTUELL

75 -��� 08.07.2005

 

 

 

 

International Conference on

Urban River Rehabilitation and Riverfront Development

21-23 September 2005 Dresden / Germany

http://www.unesco.org/water/water_events/Detailed/959.shtml

http://rcswww.urz.tu-dresden.de/~urb/Conference2005/index.html



Industrial Water 2006

European Conference on Efficient Use of Water Resources in Industry

"Will Industry meet European Water Standards and Strategies by 2015?"

6-8 February 2006Frankfurt am Main / Germany

http://events.dechema.de/wa_e_-design-.html

Call for Papers: http://events.dechema.de/img/tagungen_/Strauss/wasser06/CFP.pdf



In eigener Sache: Die F�hrungsakademie der Bundeswehr ist ab heute bis zum 15. August in ihrer vorlesungsfreien Zeit. So in der Regel auch ihre Dozenten. Ich bin zwar zwischendurch mal im B�ro, gedenke dort aber nicht �richtig� zu arbeiten, sondern nur mal die Post nachzuschauen. Also:



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uNACHRICHTEN

 

Down To Earth magazine, Jul 15, 2005 - Editor's Page

Water-waste economy

Delhi has been waiting. For its neighbour, Uttar Pradesh (UP), to release water to its swank Sonia Vihar water treatment plant. The prime minister himself intervenes in the matter. He persuades up to release water. Only to be rebuffed by up political leaders, who say their farmers and cities need water first. Delhi is already water-spoilt, they say. Elsewhere, farmers in Tonk district of Rajasthan protest against a dam whose water, they say, is 'reserved' for neighbouring cities. They want that water. They take to the highway. Police open fire and farmers die. Our leaders are usually myopic about most matters. They also work with a time-tested 'manual of operations'. In this case, I can assure you their bureaucrats have already convinced them that a) the problem is temporary: it will be sorted out as soon as it rains; b) the problem is political: the opponent party is fomenting trouble; and c) the problem is merely local ... Such incidents arise out of anger and stress. The worrying bit is that this stress has become more or less permanent now. So it is that we need to take stock of our water needs and -- urgently � devise strategies built on the realisation that water, however plentiful in places and at times, is scarce. It is time we learnt. It is time the plan changed � But all this require a major change in mindset. The saddest fact is that we see frugality as an admission of our poverty. Any politician who asks for conservation becomes a herald of 'rationing' and scarcity. Therefore, they play bold and pitch for the pipeline: it is, they say, what the country wants. It is macho politics, played to dry death.

http://www.downtoearth.org.in/editor.asp?foldername=20050715&filename=Editor&sec_id=2&sid=1

 

Yammine announces resumption of Kesrouan dam project

July 08, 2005In an effort to increase Lebanon's power and water supply, the Ministry of Energy and Industry has resumed construction of the dam in Shabrouh, Kesrouan ... said the electricity and water crisis can only be resolved by building several dams in different areas. He identified the Shabrouh dam as a "vital project" � http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?article_ID=16585&categ_ID=2&edition_id=1

HINTERGRUND: ... Water resources that now go untapped, mainly into the Mediterranean � Kesrouan Mountains, significant coastal aquifer northeast of Beirut �Shabrouh Dam, 40 kilometres northeast of Beirut, will feed areas in the central Kesrouan and Metn provinces �

Irrigation Planning in Lebanon: Challenges and Opportunitieshttp://web.idrc.ca/es/ev-42835-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html

 

Funds for water: Govt put on the mat

July 7, 2005 � The Congress-led coalition government on Tuesday was put to considerable embarrassment in the Legislative Assembly, when its own members charged the Government with �failure� to release funds for drinking water schemes in many districts. The Task Force on Drinking water headed by legislators has taken up several programmes to redress the drinking water problem, but the Government has not taken steps to release funds for the completed drinking water projects �

http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/jul72005/state19413200576.asp

 

No water rate increase for one year

2005/07/06 Premier Frank Hsieh said � that he expects no increase in water rates for at least another year. The premier made the statement less than one week after he promised residents of Taiwan that their water bills would not go up in the near future � study showed that water consumption in most local households falls below the volume set out at the minimum payment level �

http://www.etaiwannews.com/Taiwan/Society/2005/07/06/1120612557.htm

 

Engineer wins fellowship for water supply studies

July 6, 2005 A Bunbury-based engineer has been awarded a Churchill Fellowship to investigate alternative water sources in the hope of helping to solve Western Australia's supply problems ... the scholarship will allow her to research the latest technology in Singapore, India and China where sustainable water solutions have been a priority for decades ...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200507/s1408089.htm

 

Water restrictions loom closer as aquifer tapped

July 5, 2005Water use restrictions for London and the south-east for the short and long term loomed closer yesterday as the industry said only long-term steady rain could avert shortages. Thames Water opened up emergency aquifers under north London to provide the capital with 10% of its water needs and so avoid immediate bans on the use of hosepipes, but warned the situation was under review. In the water-starved south-east the Folkestone and Dover Water Company is about to become the first water supply company in the country to apply to the Department for Environment to be declared a water scarcity area �

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/homeaffairs/story/0,11026,1521578,00.html

 

Water saving 'threat to wildlife'

5 July, 2005 A plan to halve water flow from a reservoir to a river is being looked at by the government on Tuesday, after the Environment Agency opposed the move. Southern Water wants to cut water flow from the Weir Wood reservoir, Sussex, to the Medway from 5.4 megalitres a day to 2.5, to keep supplies for customers. The Environment Agency said it would put unacceptable pressure on wildlife. The agency said the move could have "such a significant impact" that the government should make the decision �

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/southern_counties/4650487.stm

 

OSCE Centre in Dushanbe opens Aarhus Centre in Khujand

5 July 2005 - Helping the public participate in decision-making and offering access to information on environmental matters are the aims of an Aarhus Centre that opened today in Khujand in the Sughd region of Tajikistan. The Centre has been established by the OSCE Field Office in Khujand and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), as well as by central and local environmental authorities, under a project financed by the United Nations Environment Programme, UNDP and the OSCE Environment and Security Initiative ...

http://www.osce.org/item/15548.html

OSCE Centre in Dushanbe - Environmental activities�� http://www.osce.org/tajikistan/13491.html

Siehe auch: Wasser Aktuell 53 - OSZE - developing better public access to ecological informationhttp://de.geocities.com/joergbarandat/wassernetz/wa53.htm

 

Krieg ums Wasser mit Spionageflugzeugen

05. Juli 2005 .... Spanien leidet nach wie vor unter der extremen D�rre. Zwischen den Regionen Murcia und Kastilien-La Mancha herrscht ein Kampf ums Wasser. Besonderen Unmut erregt die Bew�sserung von Golfpl�tzen, um zahlungskr�ftige Touristen ins Land zu locken ... Murcia ben�tigt Wasser nicht nur f�r Golfpl�tze, sondern auch f�r Orangen-, Pfirsich- und Marillenplantagen. Da der Fluss Segura in der Region nicht gen�gend hergibt, wird seit 30 Jahren Wasser aus dem Tajo in Mittelspanien in den Segura umgeleitet. Wegen der D�rre weigert sich nun die mittelspanische Region Kastilien-La Mancha, aus "ihrem" Tajo etwas abzugeben. Der Krieg ums Wasser ging so weit, dass Kastilien-La Mancha ein "Spionageflugzeug" einsetzte. Damit fand man heraus, dass Murcia und das angrenzende Alicante �ber 14.000 "geheime" Wasserspeicher verf�gen, von denen man dem �brigen Spanien nichts gesagt hatte. "Wir liefern an Murcia nur noch Wasser, damit die Leute zu trinken haben, aber nicht f�r die Bew�sserung der Felder", erkl�rte Jos� Mar�a Barreda, Ministerpr�sident von Kastilien-La Mancha ...

http://derstandard.at/?url=/?id=2099533

 

Justice: Court needs expert on West's water law

Justice Sandra Day O'Connor once suggested a qualification for her replacement that had nothing to do with gender or political philosophy: expertise in Western water law. "We have to find someone to put on the court who understands Western water, especially after I leave," O'Connor said, according to U.S. Sen. Wayne Allard, R-Colo. �"The West's reliance on federal land and prior appropriation law is complex and often confusing," Allard wrote. "Of the many legal talents that are required of a nominee, I hope the next nominee will possess an expertise in the area of Western resource and water law��

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_2836359

 

Baghdad citizens suffer water cut

7/2/2005�� In a development increasing the volume of the sufferings of the daily life of the Iraqis, a large fire erupted in a hydro-thermal electricity station that feeds a main water distribution station near Baghdad on Friday morning. This resulted in cutting the water provided for millions of inhabitants in the Iraqi capital Baghdad � the fire was a result of a destruction operation by explosives carried out by gunmen, noting that water will continue to be cut off several areas in the capital untill the damages are repaired, and this will take at least three days �

http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/050702/2005070204.html

Siehe auch:01.07.05�� Millionen Menschen in Bagdad ohne Wasser ...

http://www.rp-online.de/public/article/nachrichten/politik/ausland/96447

 

Minister of Defence inaugurates water project

2 July 2005 Minister of Defence and Member of Parliament (MP) � inaugurated a 2.576 billion-cedi water system for Buokrom in the Kumasi metropolis. The inauguration of the water system, which was the first phase of the Buokrom water project started about three years ago �Speaking at the function, Dr Addo Kufuor described as untrue the claim by a group calling itself Patriotic Citizens in Kumasi that the Kumasi metropolis and for that matter Ashanti which was the bedrock of the NPP had been neglected by the government in terms of development. He enumerated a number of projects, including schools, water and health, sanitation, streetlights which had been provided in Kumasi between 2001 and 2003 �

http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=84952

 

City Drinking Water Safe, Officials Say After Tests

July 2, 2005A day after warning that people with weak immune systems should not drink New York City tap water unless it is boiled, city officials said yesterday that the levels of microbes in the water were normal and that it was safe for everyone to drink.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/02/nyregion/02water.html

 

Minister clinches deal on water project

June 01, 2005 � Energy and Water Minister Bassam Yammine finalized Tuesday an agreement for a cooperation project with Notre Dame University in Louaizeh to improve the capacities of directing irrigation water in Lebanon ... highlighted the importance of partnership between the private and public sectors � The project will be executed within 18 months by the ministry's general directory of hydraulics through Notre Dame's Water, Energy and Environment Research Center ...

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id=15541#

 

Israel can defend itself if Golan Heights are returned

June 01, 2005Israel would be able to defend itself should it return the strategic Golan Heights plateau to Syria in any peace accord with Damascus � created shock waves last August when he became the first top Israeli officer to raise the possibility of a withdrawal from the strategic plateau. "From the point of view of military requirements we could reach an agreement with Syria by giving up the Golan," he told the Yediot Ahronot daily at the time, although the government made it clear Yaalon was talking out of turn �

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=15535#

[�...From the point of view of military requirements�� richtig interessant w�rde es aber erst � from the viewpoint of water requirements! J.B.]

 

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Europ�isches Wasserrecht - Eine Einf�hrung ...

http://www.hydro.tuwien.ac.at/lehre/wasserrecht/EU-Wasserrecht-Einfuehrung.pdf

Hinweis der Kollegen von Wasser-Wissen, UNI Bremen: Die 112 Seiten umfassenden Unterlagen zur Vorlesung "Europ�isches Wasserrecht - Eine Einf�hrung" der TU Wien wurden in die Linkliste http://www.wasser-wissen.de/linklisten/vorlesungen.htm unter dem Stichwort "Recht" aufgenommen.

 

 

 

 

Herzliche Gr��e von der Elbe

J�rg Barandat

http://de.geocities.com/joergbarandat/wassernetz.html

 

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