WASSER AKTUELL
80 - 16.10.2005
Fünfte Werkstattgespräche über Wasser:
Globale und nationale Wasserpolitik in
Transformations- und Entwicklungsländern
DEUTSCHES INSTITUT FÜR ENTWICKLUNGSPOLITIK (DIE)
26.
- 27. Oktober 2005 in Bonn
... Interessen und Strategien von internationalen
Akteuren, nationalen Regierungen und Verwaltungen und von gesellschaftlichen
Gruppen, die im Wassersektor aktiv sind, werden auf den Prüfstand gestellt ...
16.November 2005 beim IWW
in Mülheim an der Ruhr
Programm: http://www.iww-online.de/pdf_files/Programm_Forum_Wasseraufbereitung_2005.pdf
on Water and Land Management for Sustainable Irrigated Agriculture
4 - 8 April, 2006 in Adana-TURKEY
… some topics … irrigation efficiency … water management … water
scarcity and water harvesting … virtual water and food security …
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NACHRICHTEN
China, Nigeria
sign water supply project agreement
2005-10-15 … The project "is
aimed at providing clean drinkable water to ordinary Nigerians living in out-of-the-way
areas" … both China and Nigeria would cooperate closely to implement the
project smoothly so as to enable the project to benefit Nigerian people as
early as possible …
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-10/15/content_3618074.htm
Getting water
wise
October 14, 2005 The Third World
War, I have heard it said, will be fought over water. It seems difficult to believe
that at a time when the Americans are experiencing unprecedented price hikes
and fuel shortages it will be water and not oil that will make us fight each
other … Besides, the manner in which the World Bank has turned its attention to
India’s water crisis makes me even surer that there is certainly a killing, of
one sort or another, to be made in this field … has exhorted the Indian
Government to introduce a water entitlement policy for individuals and
communities that will allocate them water rights in the same manner as they
enjoy land rights … Paying for what we use is all very well but in a country
where the grid of poverty begins with a government clerk or a police constable,
itself the summum bonum of social arrival for the great majority of this
country, how does one distinguish privileged users from the masses?
http://web.mid-day.com/columns/mahmood_farooqui/2005/october/120978.htm
GUINEA:
Water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink
13 Oct 2005 It's the rainy season in Guinea, one of West Africa's wettest countries,
but the taps in many of its towns have run dry. Guinea is nicknamed West
Africa's "water tower" because it contains the headwaters of a number
of the region's major rivers, including the Senegal and the Niger. In parts of
the country's interior, average annual rainfall is close to four metres. And yet, breakdowns at
the national water company's treatment centres have left major towns in the interior
like Kindia and Labe with little or no running water for weeks ...
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/807182bfe17a7bbcd2d20a911781795e.htm
Drinking
water shortage solved for 60 mln rural population
2005-10-13 About
60 million people in China's vast rural areas had been helped out of the
drinking water shortage from 2000 to 2004, thanks to the more than 800,000 newly-built
water supply projects, said Zhai Haohui, vice ministry of Water Resources …
Speaking at the 2005 national farmland and water conservancy construction
conference, Zhai said China invested 20 billion yuan (2.5 billion US dollars)
during the past five years in drinking water facilities building … said till
the end of 2004 the drinking water supply difficulties in rural areas were
basically solved …
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-10/13/content_484724.htm
10oct05 … Following the Brisbane City Council's
shift to Level 2 water restrictions last week, few traders are likely to absorb
a heavier blow than those merchants who sell and service irrigation systems.
Sprinklers or other irrigation devices are banned under the scheme and only
hand watering is allowed a few days per week. The owner of one Brisbane
irrigation company – and an active member of the the Irrigation Association of
Australia – said he had already laid off workers and lost two franchisees. He
said it's part of an exodus out of the industry which started a few months ago
and is now gathering pace. This entrepreneur, who requested anonymity,
predicted at least 10 per cent of the estimated 3000 people employed in
irrigation-related work in southeast Queensland will be without a job within
the month. He worries about the broader implications for the state economy.
Horticulturists, irrigators, landscapers and nurseries shed as many as 50,000
jobs and stripped up to $500 million out of the New South Wales economy after
similar water restrictions were imposed last year … And he is bitter at what he
considers the local and state government mismanagement of the crisis …
http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,16863723%5E3122,00.html
October 10, 2005 The World Bank’s report on India’s
water economy is not the first treatise to caution the country about its
turbulent water future. Several global as well as domestic organisations have
studied the issue and warned that the water crisis will become insurmountable
if remedial action is delayed any longer. The problem is not confined to the
limited availability of water, and extends to its indiscriminate use and the
rapid deterioration in its quality. The World Bank report rightly warns that if
the apathy towards this problem continues, the country will be left with
neither the water required by people and for economic growth, nor enough cash
to maintain and build new water-harnessing infrastructure …
siehe auch:
- Oct 09, 2005 Increase water supply: World Bank
http://www.hindu.com/2005/10/09/stories/2005100904951000.htm
- October 08, 2005 Up investment to reach safe
drinking water target
- October 05, 2005 Huge World Bank aid for
water projects
… announced its decision to step
up by five times, its lending for water projects to four billion dollars in the
next four years. "The World Bank will increase water lendings to India
from 200 million dollars a year to about one billion dollar a year for the next
four years," World Bank's Senior Water Advisor for the South Asia John
Briscoe said here releasing a draft on 'India'a Water Economy: Bracing for a
Turbulent Future' ... Regarding the ambitious plan to inter-link major rivers in
the country, Briscoe said "South Africa has done it, Western part of USA
has done it, why can't India …
October 9, 2005 Water rights in Colorado often were a matter
of survival long before a reservoir was built here to tame the erratic flow of
the Pine River and the Pine River Irrigation District was established to help
ranchers, farmers and others share a scarce commodity … In the
eastern United States where water is bountiful, riparian law prevails, meaning
that anyone who needs water takes it. But in Colorado and the rest of the West
where water is scarce, "prior appropriation" is the guiding doctrine.
"Prior appropriation means 'first in time, first in right,'" Pierce
said. "Water courts award allocations on a first come, first-served basis
- but only for the amount that can be put to beneficial use" …
October 9, 2005
- The Mozambican government`s Water Supply Investment and Assets Fund
(FIPAG) … signed contracts with two Chinese companies to expand water supply in
the southern cities of Xai-Xai, Chokwe, Inhambane and Maxixe. China Geo
Engineering won the tender for the work … launched in December 2004. The
government awarded the contract for Inhambane and Maxixe system to China Henan
International, while a Zimbabwe company, Lamont, won the contract for
inspecting the work in all four cities …
http://www.angolapress-angop.ao/noticia-e.asp?ID=381633
09-10-2005 The Jordanian Ministry of Water and
Irrigation/Jordan Valley Authority signed … a bilateral cooperation agreement
with the French Government as part of their efforts to improve irrigation in
the Jordan Valley ... The agreement is a two-year extension-for the seventh and
eighth years- of a joint project between the Jordan Valley Authority (JVA) and
the French Regional Mission for Water and Agriculture (MERA) …
http://www.albawaba.com/en/countries/Jordan/190154
2005-10-08
The water level in Hongjiannao, the country's largest natural fresh
water lake in a desert, is continuing to decline, leading experts to worry that
the lake could eventually disappear … Experts believe there are three reasons
behind the decline of the lake's water level … Dry weather is the first cause …
"The second cause of the lake's water reduction is the excessive
extraction of ground water for farmland irrigation and for drinking water. Even
worse is the destruction of the ground water system by industrial
development" ... Moreover, the Yingpan River, which provides more than 40
per cent of the total water supplied to the lake, stopped in 2004 in the upper
reaches of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region because of water shortages …
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-10/08/content_483093.htm
07 Oct 2005
- Despite a normal wet season over the summer months, Pakistan faces a
possible 17 percent water shortage during the upcoming cropping season from
October to March next year … Pakistan's agricultural sector, which accounts for
93 percent of all water usage in the country, is under severe pressure due to
natural water shortages, high population growth and inappropriate management of
available water … At present, Pakistan is classed as a "water-stressed"
nation … the country must do what is necessary to avoid reaching a
'water-deficient' status.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/b08fda18ae477b662c75883c343e65f0.htm
October 5, 2005 VICTORIA'S rivers will be
guaranteed a certain water level to keep them healthy under a bill to be
introduced in State Parliament ... The bill will give the environment a legal right
to water and implements most of the Government's white paper recommendations on
water released last year … The bill establishes a framework for the interstate
trade of water and the "unbundling" of water rights. But the
framework will not be implemented until agreement is reached with other states
on issues such as the value of water …
13-29 September 2005 172nd session of the Executive Board of
UNESCO
… has recommended to the General Conference
at its 33rd session (3-21 October 2005) that it approve the establishment
of three new water-related category II centers under the auspices of UNESCO:
the IHP-HELP Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science at the University of
Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom; the European Regional Centre for Ecohydrology
in Lodz, Poland; the Regional Water Centre for Arid and Semi-Arid Zones of
Latin America and the Caribbean (CAZALAC) in La Serena, Chile; … shall also
consider the establishment of the International Centre for Water Hazard and
Risk Management (ICHARM) in Tsukuba, Japan http://www.unesco.pwri.go.jp …
http://www.unesco.org/water/ihp/index.shtml
http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=25566&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
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Links
AQUASTAT - Food and Agriculture
Organization (FAO)
… global information system
of water and agriculture, developed by the Land and Water Development Division
of FAO … to provide users with comprehensive information on the state of
agricultural water management across the world, with emphasis on developing
countries and countries in transition …
http://www.fao.org/ag/agl/aglw/aquastat/main/index.stm
World Bank: Water Supply and Sanitation
… activities in water and sanitation include financial services; advice
to governments and cities on sector policies and programmes …
http://www.worldbank.org/watsan/
European Commission: Water policy in the European Union
… provide further information on the different pieces of
water legislation (and related policies) in the European Community which
contribute to a major part that clean water in sufficient quantity becomes a
reality all over Europe.
http://europa.eu.int/comm/environment/water/index.html
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u VERÖFFENTLICHUNGEN
Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
Waltina
Scheumann / Susanne Neubert: Empfehlungen zur strategischen Orientierung der
EZ im grenzüberschreitenden Gewässermanagement in Afrika
Discussion
Paper Nr. 10/2005
Malte
Grossmann: Kooperation an Afrikas
internationalen Gewässern:
Die
Bedeutung des Informationsaustauschs
Discussion Paper Nr. 9/2005
Erich Mostert: How Can
International Donors Promote Transboundary Water Management?
Discussion
Paper Nr. 8/2005
Wirkus,
Lars / Volker Böge: Afrikas internationale Flüsse und Seen.
Stand und Erfahrungen im grenzüberschreitenden Wassermangement in Afrika an
ausgewählten Beispielen
Discussion
Paper Nr. 7/2005
Axel
Klaphake: Kooperation an internationalen Flüssen aus ökonomischer
Perspektive: Das Konzept des Benefit Sharing
Discussion Paper Nr. 6/2005,
Jungnickel, Rolf / Georg Koopmann:
Strengthening the Development Impact of UNCTAD's Investment Policy Reviews
Discussion
Paper Nr. 5/2005
Ashoff,
Guido: Der entwicklungspolitische Kohärenzanspruch: Begründung, Anerkennung
und Wege zu seiner Umsetzung
Studies
6/2005
Herzliche Grüße von der Elbe
Jörg Barandat
http://de.geocities.com/joergbarandat/wassernetz.html