WASSER AKTUELL
77 - 24.08.2005
"Enforcement without education is heavy-handed,
while education without enforcement is naive."
Terry Tamminen
California Environmental
Protection Agency Secretary 11/2004
2005 World Water Week
with the 15th
Stockholm Water Symposium
Drainage Basin Management - Hard and Soft Solutions in
Regional Development
2005 August 21-27 in Stockholm
http://www.worldwaterweek.org/
… unter anderem mit folgenden
Veranstaltungen:
21 August, 2005
CSE Workshop: The Political Economy of
Defecation - Tales of water and excreta
The imperative of rainwater harvesting, reuse and
recycling in cities of the South
http://www.cseindia.org/misc/world-water.htm
22 August, 2005
A Plan to End
Poverty: Meeting the Millennium Development Goals by Investing
in Development
http://www.worldwaterweek.org/seminarsandsideevents/sideevents.asp
24 August, 2005
UN-Water Seminar: The 24
UN-system entities that work on water issues will outline different aspects of
their work through UN-Water, particularly global monitoring and reporting
activities
http://www.worldwaterweek.org/seminarsandsideevents/seminars12.asp
25 August, 2005
Finance for Water
Solutions: How Capital Markets, Banks, Insurers and Asset
Managers Can Work for Water
http://www.worldwaterweek.org/seminarsandsideevents/seminars18.asp
From the
Millennium Summit to 2015: Why Managing Water Resources and
Expanding Water Supply and Sanitation Services is Vital to Meeting the
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – and What Needs to be Done
http://www.worldwaterweek.org/seminarsandsideevents/seminars17.asp
Transboundary Water Governance as a
Manifestation of a Trialogue
… relationship between government, society and the
economy is a “trialogue.” The interaction between water, land and society forms
another complex. Nationally, these relationsships and interactions are
difficult enough; transboundary contexts compound the complexity ...
http://www.worldwaterweek.org/seminarsandsideevents/seminars15.asp
27 August, 2005
SIWI Seminar: Benefit Sharing from Integrated Land and
Water Use in River Basins
… food security and environmental sustainability depend on a paradigm
shift. Design of land and water use within basins in order to achieve optimal
use of basin resources is highly relevant. A resource
use strategy must be combined with a policy where the derived benefits can be
properly accessed and shared ...
http://www.worldwaterweek.org/seminarsandsideevents/seminarsSIWI.asp
BERICHTERSTATTUNG
South African Students Win
Stockholm Junior Water Prize
20054, Aug. 23 …
Motshodi, and Sechaba Ramabenyane from South Africa were awarded the
prestigious Stockholm Junior Water Prize … students at Setjhaba Se Maketsee
Combined School in South Africa, received the Prize from HRH Crown Princess
Victoria on behalf of the Stockholm Water Foundation … awarded the Prize to the
South African group of students for their project, "Nocturnal Hydro
Minimiser, an electrically operated automatic water system" …
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/08-23-2005/0004093188&EDATE
"Die Wasserfrage ist eine Armutsfrage" - Eine Konferenz in Stockholm
wirbt für die gerechtere Verteilung und Nutzung der Ressource
23.08.2005 Mit dem Aufruf zu einer intelligenten Nutzung der
knappen Ressource ist am Montag in Stockholm die Weltwasserwoche eröffnet
worden. Experten aus hundert Ländern wollen dort Möglichkeiten zur besseren
Verteilung und Nutzung von Wasser besprechen ... Die Verteilung der knappen Wasservorräte könne
soziale Unruhen auslösen, die die Entwicklung der Gesellschaft behindern ...
Dennoch sei die Trinkwasserversorgung international kein Topthema ... "Der
Klimafrage wird beispielsweise wesentlich mehr Platz eingeräumt." Ursache
dafür sei, dass "die Wasserfrage eine Armutsfrage" sei: Der Mangel an
Wasser und Sanität betreffe fast ausschließlich "arme Menschen mit äußerst
begrenztem politischem Einfluss" ... "Die Klimafrage hingegen trifft
auch die reichen Länder. Daher der Unterschied an Aufmerksamkeit." Dabei
seien Investitionen in bessere Wasser- und Sanitätsanlagen ein sicherer
wirtschaftlicher Gewinn ...
http://www.f-r.de/ressorts/nachrichten_und_politik/nachrichten/?cnt=715292
DEVELOPMENT-AFRICA - Water, Water Everywhere...
2005, Aug 23
- The crisis-weary African continent, which has two of the world's
longest rivers -- the 6,400-kilometre Nile River and the 4,370-kilometre Congo
River -- is suffering from a virtual economic paradox: a shortage of water
amidst potentially plentiful supplies … "The need for water resource
infrastructure in Africa is clear. The same arguments are also applicable to
many other countries in the developing world" … warned that the construction
of dams should be conditioned on two factors: first, people affected or
displaced by a dam should be guaranteed benefits of some nature -- "and
they should also be better off after the construction of the dam than they were
before ... Linking water with democracy -- two widely divergent subjects …
"the progress that is currently being made towards peace and the
democratisation of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) can unlock the
hydropower potential of the Congo River, and this can be the key to unlock the
economic potential of the whole African continent" … failure … will lead
to rising insecurity "since extreme poverty is an important driver of
conflict" …
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=30001
Schon mal einen Blick ins nächste Jahr ... IWRM im Fokus ....:
Advanced Training Course on ‘Integrated Watershed
Management’ (INWAMA)
Organizers: Department
of Geoinformatics of the University of Jena, Germany
5–25 June 2006, Beijing, China;
4–22 September 2006, Kanpur, India
… interdisciplinary Asian-European partnership project … offers advanced
synergetic master’s level course in the field of Integrated Watershed
Management (IWM) … course will focus on natural as well as social sciences,
including systems analysis, modelling, Geographic Information Systems (GIS),
water law, water governance and data management ...
http://www.unesco.org/water/water_events/Detailed/1083.shtml
3rd International Symposium on Integrated
Water Resources Management
26-28 September 2006,
Bochum, Germany
… will provide a platform for the
international exchange of research relating to Integrated Water Resources
Management (IWRM) ...
http://conventus.de/water/index.php
2nd Goettingen GIS and Remote Sensing Days
(GGRS2006): Global Change Issues in Developing and Emerging Countries
4-6 October 2006,
Goettingen, Germany
… (GIS-Geographic
Information Systems) … main topics are the following watershed management, land
degradation and desertification …
http://www.ggrs.uni-goettingen.de/confdesc.php
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u NACHRICHTEN
HWW
und HSE vereinen sich zu "Hamburg Wasser"
24.08.05 Die Hamburger Wasserwerke (HWW) und die
Stadtentwässerung (HSE) werden sich zusammenschließen. Die beiden staatlichen Unternehmen
werden zum Jahresende zu einem Gleichordnungskonzern "Hamburg Wasser"
zusammengefaßt. Das neue Unternehmen bleibt zu 100 Prozent im Besitz der Stadt
... Mit dem Zusammenschluß entsteht in Hamburg das größte städtische Wasser-
und Abwasserunternehmen Deutschlands. Ziel ist es, durch Kostenoptimierungen
und eine gemeinsame Vermarktung der Kompetenzen bei der Wasserversorgung und
-Entsorgung, die Preise und Gebühren stabill zu halten ... HWW-Chef Beckereit
erklärte, das Unternehmen wolle seine Dienstleistungen in Norddeutschland und
seine Beratungstätigkeit weltweit ausbauen ..:
http://www.welt.de/data/2005/08/24/764652.html
Democrats
want water diversion plan axed
24 August 2005 The Democrat party is opposing the
government's plan to divert water for use by industry in Rayong, saying a water
management company will enjoy huge profits while farmers will be left high and
dry … The company should share its profits with local people if it was going to
benefit further from handling the water diversion . The government should
listen to local people on water management by forming a joint water management
committee to include representatives from local industries and the public …
http://www.bangkokpost.com/News/24Aug2005_news08.php
Water returns to Iraqi marshlands - The
marshlands of Iraq, which were drained during the early 1990s, are returning to
their original state.
2005/08/24 Under Saddam Hussein, the area of marsh was
reduced to a tenth of its former size, as the government punished people living
there for acts of rebellion ... The marsh area, near the confluence of the Tigris
and Euphrates rivers, was first affected by drainage programmes in the 1950s
... "The near-total destruction of the Iraqi marshlands under the regime
of Saddam Hussein was a major ecological and human disaster, robbing the Marsh
Arabs of a centuries-old culture and way of life as well as food in the form of
fish and that most crucial of natural resources, drinking water," United
Nations Environment Programme executive director Klaus Toepfer said in a
statement ... it will take many years before the area is fully restored to its
original condition - if, indeed, that is possible, with dams in Turkey, Syria
and Iran reducing the amount of water which flows down the Tigris and Euphrates
...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/science/nature/4177852.stm
Water hearing draws hundreds
- Waukesha utility wants ground, surface waater regulated equally
Aug.
23, 2005 Water-starved Waukesha will cap its daily water consumption at
about 20 million gallons daily if a draft agreement that protects Great Lakes
water regulates ground water, and not just surface water … “we believe the use
of Great Lakes ground water should be regulated with the same protections as
Great Lakes surface water. It's well-known that ground water aquifers and
surface waters are connected" … Waukesha is among the few municipalities
that are within the Great Lakes ground water divide, but not the surface water
divide …
http://www.jsonline.com/news/wauk/aug05/350241.asp
EPA
Will Study Perchlorate's Damage to Drinking Water Supplies
8/22/2005 The U.S. EPA plans
to study the extent of damage done to drinking water supplies by a component of
rocket fuel -- another step toward possible federal regulation of the chemical
… California health officials are making perchlorate contamination a top
priority after discovering the chemical in 529 drinking water supplies. In
2004, the state set a nonbinding goal for perchlorate in drinking water at 6
ppb. "California is concerned," said Celeste Cantú, executive
director of the State Water Resources Control Board. "Everywhere we test,
we find it" …
http://www.nrdc.org/news/newsDetails.asp?nID=1776
Pictet Water Fund: Aus knappem Wasser Kapital schlagen
19.08.05 Die
augenblickliche Dürre in Spanien und Portugal verdeutlicht es: Wasser ist eine
der wichtigsten Ressourcen für die Menschheit. Warum daraus nicht Kapital schlagen,
hat sich das Schweizer Bankhaus Pictet schon 2000 gedacht ... Fondsmanager Hans Peter Portner hat die Auswahl aus
rund 200 Werten, von denen maximal 70 den Weg in den Fonds finden. "Meine
Titel stammen aus der gesamten Wertschöpfungskette des Wassers, von der
Aufbereitung über den effizienten Gebrauch bis hin zu Mineralwasser oder zu
Entsorgern" ... Aus drei Gründen macht es für Portner Sinn, in
Wasseraktien zu investieren: "Wasser ist zu billig, es gibt zu wenig
geeignete Infrastruktur und das Wasser ist häufig nicht am richtigen Ort"
...
http://www.fundresearch.de/index.asp?intPageID=5&pkBerichtNr=104032&pkRubrikNr=478
Siehe auch:
01.08.2005 Investition: "Öl ist ersetzbar, Wasser nicht"
http://www.diepresse.com/Artikel.aspx?channel=e&ressort=eo&id=497895
Wertschöpfung von Wasser im
Berggebiet soll erhöht werden
18.08.2005
Die Wertschöpfung der Ressource Wasser im Berggebiet soll erhöht werden.
Diese Forderung haben gut 170 Teilnehmer an der ersten Jahresveranstaltung des
Kompetenznetzwerks "Wasser im Berggebiet" ... erhoben ... Zentraler
Zweck des Netzwerkes ist es, in effizienter Weise zur erhöhten Wertschöpfung
und Erhaltung von Arbeitsplätzen im Berggebiet beizutragen. Hierfür soll das
vorhandene Wissen im Wasserbereich vernetzt und weiterentwickelt werden ...
Water shortage worsening: Suriya
15 Aug 05
Industry minister Suriya Jungrungreangkit admitted over the weekend that
the water shortage problem in the eastern seaboard industrial estate is really
worsening and the government will try its best to ensure that water resource
for industrial use is sufficient for the remaining months of this year ...
http://www.biz-day.com/read/industrial/15_aug_05/ca4if-z/water_shortage_worsening_suriya.htm
15.08.2005 ...
Bergbautechnologie löscht Durst von Millionen ... Wasser kennt aber neben dem
flüssigen und gefrorenen noch einen weiteren Zustand - den gasförmigen: In Form
von Luftfeuchtigkeit enthält die Atmosphäre mit etwa 5.000 km3 rund zehnmal
mehr Wasser als alle Flüsse der Welt zusammen. Diese bisher ungenutzte Quelle
zu erschließen und damit den Durst von Millionen zu stillen, hat sich die Aqua
Society, Inc. zur Aufgabe gemacht. Aqua Society hat mit "Aquamission"
eine Technologie entwickelt, die ursprünglich aus dem deutschen Bergbau stammt
und die in der Erdatmosphäre gebundene Luftfeuchtigkeit mittels Kondensation
als Trinkwasserquelle erschließt ... Während die Geräte im Bergbau in erster
Linie dazu dienen, die Luft zu kühlen - wobei sich als Nebenprodukt
Kondenswasser bildet, steht dieser Effekt bei dem Verfahren zur
Trinkwassergewinnung im Vordergrund ... Das Verfahren zur Trinkwassergewinnung
aus der Luft wird derzeit in den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten einem
Langzeittest unterzogen ...
http://www.presseportal.de/story.htx?nr=712680&ressort=1
Great Lakes water demand
rises
2005 Aug. 12
-- The battle for fresh water from the Great Lakes is expected get worse
as aquifers are depleted in the United States… The New York Times reported that
in 1892, one speculator tried to pipe the Waukesha water to Chicago but the
pipe layers were chased away by town residents with pistols, pitchforks and
fire hoses. Authorities who control the Great Lakes are not sure any of it
should go to communities like Waukesha, which is 15 miles from the lake's shore
but outside of its watershed …
http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/?feed=TopNews&article=UPI-1-20050812-12014700-bc-us-greatlakes.xml
China
strives to cut damage to cultural heritage in water diversion projects
2005-08-12 -- When modernization meets ancient relics, the balance of favors leans
to the former in today's China, a country where problems such as poverty and
shortages of energy seem more urgent than protecting cultural heritage ...
debate has attached itself to the on-going massive project of diverting water
from the south to the north, which will affect a reservoir of precious Chinese
cultural artifacts, as it courses through the hinterland of China's ancient
civilization … Experts say the cultural heritage sites affected by the
south-north water diversion project are much more valuable than those in the
Three Gorges ... The coming two decades will see more large-scale construction
projects in China. Experts say China should sum up lessons and experience of
cultural heritage protection gained in undertaking large projects and seek a
balance between modern development and the protection of ancient history and
culture ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-08/12/content_3344738.htm
Can't
release more water: Dharam to PM
August
5, 2005
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today rang up Karnataka
Chief Minister N Dharam Singh, urging him to release more water from the
Almatti dam as per neighbouring Maharashtra's request, but was told about the
state's difficulties in doing so ...
http://web.mid-day.com/news/nation/2005/august/115610.htm
Jaya writes to AP CM on Krishna water
release
August 5, 2005
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa has requested her Andhra
Pradesh counterpart Y S Rajasekhara Reddy to ensure Krishna water supply for
Chennai city this year as per the 1983 agreement …
http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/aug52005/update9525200585.asp
04.08.2005 Hungersnot im Niger, Swimming Pools in der
Wüste – was den einen mangelt, wird andernorts verschwendet. Drohen Kriege um
das »Erdöl der Zukunft«? ... Wasserkrisen sind also
nicht neu. Aber sie waren früher regional begrenzt – und geraten heute in den
Strudel globalisierter Prozesse, die meist isoliert betrachtet und gestaltet
werden. Dabei hängen fossile Energienutzung, Agrobusiness, westlicher
Lebensstil, Zentralisierung, Verstädterung und Verwüstung untrennbar zusammen,
ihre ökologischen Folgen schaukeln sich gegenseitig hoch ...
http://www.zeit.de/2005/32/U-Wasserkampf
Project to replace leaky section
August 4, 2005
Nevada's largest water agency plans to weigh in on a water-rights dispute
along the California-Mexico border, saying its outcome could directly affect
users in the Las Vegas region ...
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20050804-9999-1n4canal.html
Protocol on Water and
Health
3 August 2005 World Health Organization - Press
Release … The Protocol on Water and Health to the 1992 Convention on Protection
and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes [ECE-Übereinkommen >>> http://www.unece.org/env/water/
J.B.] enters into force on 4 August 2005, following
ratification by the minimum 16 countries: Albania, Azerbaijan, Belgium, the
Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania,
Luxemburg, Norway, Romania, the Russian Federation, Slovakia and Ukraine [ ??? Und Deutschland
??? ] ...
http://www.euro.who.int/eprise/main/WHO/MediaCentre/PR/2005/20050729_1
Dokument: http://www.euro.who.int/Document/Peh-ehp/ProtocolWater.pdf
Danke dem Kollegen U. Schröder, Bundesanstalt für Gewässerkunde
für diesen Hinweis!
Army knocks at HC door for water
August
02, 2005 It’s a war over water. And
this time, a garrison of the Indian Army is battling none other than a district
administration. With the Leh civil administration deciding to stop water supply
to its garrison and general hospital, the Army has now taken the battle to the
precincts of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court. ‘‘The civil administration has
passed an order directing the Army to stop operation of the bore-well,’’ Army’s
14 Corps petitioned the Court, adding that the bore-well had been supplying
water to the Army and civil population since 1983 … With the military hospital
and garrison without any water, the issue has led to a major confrontation
between the Army and the civil administration. This controversy first came to
light in 1995 after a dispute between Army and the residents of the Skara
village over the bore-well and its surrounding pasture area …
http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=51903#compstory
01.08.2005...
Das Land, das unter der schlimmsten Dürre seit 60 Jahren stöhnt, steuert auf
die wohl größte Wasserkrise des Jahrhunderts zu ... Umweltministerin Cristina
Narbona warnt, dass die seit zehn Monaten dauernde regenlose Zeit womöglich
erst der Anfang einer mehrjährigen Trockenperiode sein könne: "Es ist sehr
wahrscheinlich, dass das kommende Jahr auch ein Trockenes sein wird."
Während viele Städte Notfallpläne für eine Zukunft mit wenig Wasser ausarbeiten,
geht die Wasserverschwendung an vielen Orten weiter. Blühendes Beispiel für die
Lust am ungebremsten Konsum sind etwa die 297 Golfplätze, die meist mit
Trinkwasser beregnet werden ... Jeder Golfplatz konsumiert soviel wie eine
Stadt mit 15.000 Einwohnern. "Das Verrückte ist: Wasser ist in Spanien ein
rares und wertvolles Gut. Aber es ist viel billiger als in jedem anderen Land
Europas", sagt Enrique Cabrera, Professor an der Universität Valencia. Der
Kubikmeter kostet den Verbraucher im eher trockenen Spanien nur ein Viertel
dessen, was etwa im regenreichen Deutschland dafür hingelegt werden muss. Das
führt dazu, dass der Wasserkonsum der Nation kontinuierlich steigt statt zu
sinken. Ans Wassersparen oder die Wiederaufbereitung von Abwasser denkt kaum
jemand ...
http://www.diepresse.com/Artikel.aspx?channel=c&ressort=c&id=497835
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u NEUE
DOKUMENTE / VERÖFFENTLICHUNGEN
- Lake Chad: http://www.unep.org/vitalwater/27.htm
- Global Freshwater Resources: http://www.unep.org/vitalwater/02.htm
Youth and the Millennium Development Goals: Challenges and Opportunities for Implementation
By Ad Hoc Working
Group for Youth and the MDGs. 2005 … outlines how young people can be included in
the strategies that Member States and the United Nations system are creating
for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) ...
Water-related topics related to the MDGs and potential water actions and
projects are included …
http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unyin/documents/youthmdgs.pdf
Universität
Bayreuth Power-Point-Präsentation
(47-Seiten)
1.Wasser als Lösemittel - wie bringt man Alltags- und
Fachbezug zusammen?
2.Erfahrungen mit Wasser - Beobachtungen an einem
Alltagsphänomen.
3.Wassergüte - chemische Bezüge.
www.uni-bayreuth.de/departments/didaktikchemie/s_ringv_gs/GS%20Wasser.ppt
Hinweis
übernommen aus Wasser-Wissen-Newsletter Nr. 138 (www.wasser-wissen.de)
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Links
learn: line.NRW
Agenda 21 in Schule und Jugendarbeit
Beitrag
des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen zur Umsetzung der „Agenda 21“ im Bildungsbereich
Wasser
http://www.learnline.nrw.de/angebote/agenda21schulen/medio/Chatderwelten/Wasser/index.php
International
Lake Environment Committee (ILEC)
… to advance international
cooperation for the conservation of lake environments and promote environmentally
sound management … contains a world lake database and world lake vision ...
http://www.ilec.or.jp/eg/index.html
Young Water Action Team
(YWAT)
… global network of
young water professionals and students between the ages of 18 and 30 with
members in more than 40 countries ... to increase young people awareness,
participation and commitment of water-related issues ...
Youth Water Network
(YWN)
… to increase youth
participation in order to achieve sustainable water management through the
processes of democracy, education and solidarity ...
http://www.youthwaternetwork.org/
Indigenous Perspectives
on Water and Development
… promote better understanding of indigenous perspectives on water and
development among non-indigenous water professionals, and to enhance dialogue
between indigenous political and spiritual leaders on one hand and the agents
of water resources development on the other …
http://www.indigenouswater.org/
Indigenous Environmental
Network (IEN)
… an alliance of grassroots
indigenous peoples whose mission is to protect the sacredness of Mother Earth
from contamination and exploitation by strengthening, maintaining and
respecting the traditional teachings and natural laws ...
http://www.ienearth.org/water_campaign.html
UNESCO - World Heritage
… seeks to encourage the identification,
protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world
considered to be of outstanding value to humanity …
http://whc.unesco.org/en/home/
Herzliche Grüße von der Elbe
Jörg Barandat
http://de.geocities.com/joergbarandat/wassernetz.html