Netzwerk Wasserkooperation
Nachrichtenüberblick Weihnachten 2005
20.12.2005 (update 21.12.05)
Liebe
KollegInnen und Freunde,
ich
werde am kommenden Freitag in den Winterschlaf fallen. Daher heute den letzten
Newsletter für dieses Jahr, verbunden mit allen guten Wünschen ... und dem
diesjährigen u Weihnachtstipp : … for long-lasting Christmas tree, avoid heat,
use lukewarm water …
...
und da ich nicht gedenke, vor dem 10. Januar 2006 wieder aus meiner Winterhöhle
herauszukommen, auch schon heute ein herzliches Hanukah Sameah! und Bayraminiz mübarek olsun!
25.12.2005 - 02.01.2006
Chanukka / Lichterfest
http://www.hagalil.com/judentum/feiertage/hanukah/
7. Januar 2006 orthodoxe
Weihnachten
http://www.russian-online.net/de_start/box/boxtext.php?auswahl=silvester1
10. Januar 2006 Kurban Bayram /
Opferfest
http://www.wshoffmann.de/artikel/kurban.html
... und wer bisher sonst noch keine
freundliche Zahlungsaufforderung zum Fest bekommen hat ... in Hamburg - St.
Pauli gibt es nicht nur ASTRA, sondern auch das Wasser-Projekt "Viva con agua Sankt Pauli",
mit dem Benny Adrion, Mittelfeldspieler unseres Kiez-Klubs FC St. Pauli, in
Zusammenarbeit mit der Deutschen Welthungerhilfe, 120 Kindergärten in
Havanna/Kuba mit sauberem Trinkwasser versorgen will ...
http://www.fcstpauli.de/sp/pages/kiosk/Kunterbuntes/vivaconagua/viva_con_agua.php
http://www.agua-sanktpauli.org/index.htm
Ihnen
/ Euch allen und Ihren / Euren Familie für 2006 Gesundheit, viele neue gute
Ideen, Stehvermögen in der Umsetzung und Gottes Segen! Was mich angeht, so
steht wohl für Anfang April eine grundlegende berufliche Veränderung an. Wie
sich dies auf meine Mitarbeit in einer Reihe von
Projekten, Netzwerken und sonstigen von mir übernommenen Verpflichtungen auswirken
wird, werde ich in den nächsten Wochen abzuwägen und zu entscheiden haben.
Wie immer: ganz herzliche Grüße von der
Elbe
Jörg Barandat
u NACHRICHTEN
Neuer KRIUM / ECC Newsletter 12/2005
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Zivile Krisenprävention Umwelt und Ressourcen |
Environment, Conflict and
Cooperation |
|
FORUM Warum der Kimberley Prozess mehr tun muss, um
Konfliktdiamanten zu stoppen |
FORUM Why the Kimberly Process
must do More to Stop Conflict Diamonds |
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POLITIK & FORSCHUNG - Kann Gold Berge versetzen? Konflikte in den Anden - Energie und Außenpolitik: Auswege aus der Abhängigkeit - Auf den Punkt: Toolkits zu Wäldern und
"Livelihoods" - Elemente menschlicher Sicherheit: Eine Analyse der neuen
Agenda |
POLICY & RESEARCH - Can Gold Move Mountains?
Conflicts in the Andes - Energy as a Foreign
Policy Issue: From Dependence to Strategy - To the Point: USAID
Publishes New Toolkits - Linking the Elements of
Human Security: An Analysis of the New Agenda |
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KONFERENZBERICHTE - Guter Rat für die ENVSEC Initiative - Wasserfragen global: Recht
oder nicht Recht? - Frieden für Parks oder Parks für Frieden? |
CONFERENCE REPORTS - Good Advice for the
EnvSec Initiative - Global Water Issues: Is
Water a Human Right? - Peace for Parks or Parks
for Peace? |
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VERANSTALTUNGSHINWEISE - "Water
Resources in the 21st Century" in Alexandria (26. - 28. Dezember 2005) - "Delhi Sustainable
Development Summit" in New Delhi (2. - 4. Februar 2006) - "Zukunft braucht Sicherheit" in Berlin (15. -
16. Februar 2006) - Call
for Paper: "Environmental Conflict and Security Revisited" |
UPCOMING EVENTS - "Water Resources in
the 21st Century" in Alexandria (26 – 28 December 2005) - "Delhi Sustainable
Development Summit - DSDS 2006" in New Delhi (2 - 4 February 2006) - "Future Needs
Security" in Berlin (15 - 16 February 2006) - "Call for Papers:
"Environmental conflict and security revisited" |
|
INSTITUTE &
ORGANISATIONEN Center for Security Studies
an der ETH Zürich |
FOKUS Center for Security Studies
(CSS) at the ETH Zurich |
|
http://www.krium.de/upload/Newsletter/Dezember05.pdf |
http://www.ecc-platform.org/images/stories/newsletter/december05.pdf |
Dirty
water, sanitation kill thousands daily: Experts
December 19, 2005 Unsafe drinking water and poor
sanitation kill 4,000 children every day, global health experts said … They
described the deaths as a "silent humanitarian crisis" and called for
immediate action … World Health Organization (WHO) ... The report was published
as part of a review of the Millennium Development Goals, a number of pledges
set out in 1990 to improve living conditions in developing nations by 2015 …
"Improving irrigation to avoid standing or slow-moving water and improving
disposal of household wastewater can reduce mosquito breeding and transmission
of malaria" …
http://www.paktribune.com/news/index.php?id=128778
Polity
should deem water reservoirs as a must: Musharraf
December 20, 2005 … President
Pervez Musharraf has stressed all the political parties of the country to take
an unbiased and impartial look at the dire need for future water reservoirs,
which are a must … chided those who were politicizing the dam issue as
indulging in a deliberate and open escape from the stark reality, and openly
anti-Pakistan … have a comprehensive meeting with haris (labors), farmers and
other social orders of the province and fully allay their apprehensions and
reservations about the Dam … He said that Pakistan would need at least three
big dams, including KBD by the year 2020 to meet the water deficiency, which
would be catastrophes if we neglect the issue now ...
http://www.paktribune.com/news/index.php?id=128871
China aims to
improve safe water availability by 2010
19 Dec 2005 China expects to bring potable water to 100 million
rural residents by 2010 … but that would still leave more than 200 million
people with unsafe supplies. Plagued by droughts and shortages, China is
currently unable to provide clean drinking water to 360 million people, with
supplies affected by everything from salinity to arsenic … Per capita water
availability in China is about a quarter of the world average and is expected
to fall further, according to state media, while less than half the waste water
in the cities is treated and around 20 percent is lost through leaky pipes.
Heavy pollution of rivers across China also makes much of its available water
undrinkable … The first stage of the scheme, known as the South-North water
diversion project, is scheduled to come on line in 2010 …
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/PEK283748.htm
Water tribunal inactive, State approaches SC
December 18, 2005 Karnataka has filed a petition in the Supreme Court
drawing its attention to the non-functioning of Krishna Water Disputes Tribunal
for the past 18 months and Andhra Pradesh going ahead with construction of
large scale projects illegally. The tribunal is not functional because the
Centre has not allotted accommodation to Chairman Justice Brijesh Kumar and
Member Justice S P Srivastava and the building where the Tribunal was set up is
still under renovation, … Delay in the tribunal’s proceedings would also delay
the allocation of surplus water of inter-state river Krishna … Under the
Inter-state River Water Disputes Act, 1956, no court can exercise jurisdiction
in respect of any water dispute referred to a tribunal ...
http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/dec182005/national16371520051217.asp
China, parched and polluted, puts a price on water
DECEMBER 16, 2005 Nearly seven years ago, Wen Jiabao, then a vice prime minister, uttered
a stark warning: "The survival of the Chinese nation is threatened by the
country's shortage of water." Since then, Wen has risen to become prime
minister and the nation's water shortage has grown more acute, posing serious
challenges to Chinese industry and agriculture and the overall sustainability
of China's economic miracle. With a natural water endowment well below global
per capita averages, China has always struggled with scarcity. And now, as the
one-fifth of humanity living off that meager endowment enjoys higher standards
of living and higher levels of consumption, the demand for water is increasing
dramatically … The government has earmarked billions of dollars for the
construction of infrastructure, for the supply of fresh water and the treatment
of wastewater. Despite many structural obstacles to financing these projects,
multilateral lending agencies such as the World Bank and Asian Development
Bank, and multinational corporations are dipping their toes in China's water
sector … The most basic issue is China's pricing of water. Up until 1985, water
was supplied free of charge. While this was consistent with the socialist
system China was striving to build, it did nothing to encourage farmers,
factories or families to make efficient use of water. According to China's own
estimates, the country uses four times more water per unit of economic output
than the global average. Its rate of industrial water re-usage, meanwhile,
stands at only 55 percent, far below the rate of 80 percent in most advanced
countries. In order to encourage both conservation of water and investment in
new projects, the government in recent years has allowed prices to rise, but
gradually, fearing a social backlash …
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/12/16/business/rdevchin.php
Water officials review resource mobilisation for
Red-Dead project
16/12/2005 Senior Jordanian, Palestinian and Israeli
water officials on Wednesday briefed diplomats from Arab and foreign countries
in Amman on the progress of resource mobilisation for a $15.5 million
feasibility study and environmental and social assessment for the Red Sea-Dead
Sea Water Conveyance Study … In July, the World Bank, which announced it would
facilitate the funding of the study during the World Economic Forum in May,
said it would establish a multi-donor trust fund to oversee the completion of
the study in two years … The canal, to be built along the border with Israel in
Wadi Araba, would be used to generate electricity as the water will rise to 170
metres above sea level, then drop to 400 metres below sea level. The project
also entails the creation of a desalination plant, which will provide the
Kingdom with 850 million cubic metres of potable water …
http://www.jordanembassyus.org/12162005004.htm
Don't share water
with U.S.
Dec 15 2005The United States will soon want more of Canada's water, former Alberta
premier Peter Lougheed says, and he's warning politicians to prepare to fend
them off. "We should not export our fresh water. We need it and we should
conserve it" ... "We should communicate to the United States very
quickly how firm we are about it." Lougheed says Canada's water is vital
to its economic success and needs to be protected, and he'd like to see an
all-party declaration in the House of Commons affirming a refusal to allow bulk
exports of its fresh water supply … The agreement, signed at the Great Lakes
Governors Leadership Summit in Milwaukee on Tuesday, was primarily aimed at
blocking parched southern states from siphoning off huge amounts of Great Lakes
water …
http://www.cbc.ca/calgary/story/ca-water-us20051215.html
Water, water to
light up your home
DECEMBER 15, 2005Water will be the
coal of the future,” French science-fiction writer Jules Verne predicted in
1874. More than a century later in a world seeking clean alternatives to fossil
fuels, Dutch and Norwegian scientists believe they can help turn Verne’s dream
into reality. The Dutch Center for Sustainable Water Technology or Wetsus, and
Norway’s independent research organisation Sintef, working with power company
Statkraft, have invented devices that generate electricity by mixing sea and
river water … The new devices are based on a natural process — when a river
runs into the ocean, a huge amount of energy is unleashed because of the
difference in salt concentration. “It’s basically harvesting the energy that
comes free from a natural process” … Like other alternative energy technologies,
cost is the biggest hurdle. Power produced by mixing sea with river water is
several times more expensive than wind or solar energy … The main challenge is
finding membranes that are efficient and robust enough to boost production, but
also cheap ...
Las Vegas -
geht der Wüstenmetropole das Wasser aus?
14.12.2005 Der Verkauf von
Illusionen als Freifahrtsschein für Wasserverschwendung. Das 1905 gegründete
Las Vegas gilt einigen Zeitgenossen als Beton, Stahl und Glas gewordene
menschliche Fantasie schlechthin, für andere ist sie die Apotheose
neo-liberaler Globalisierung. Nicht plötzlicher Reichtum ist hier die größte
Illusion von allen, sondern die Vorstellung, dass Wasser in unbegrenztem Ausmaß
zur Verfügung stünde ...
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/html/result.xhtml?url=/tp/r4/artikel/21/21509/1.html&words=las%20Vegas
Colorado River states look for ways to stretch water
supply
December
12, 2005 The seven states that rely on the Colorado River
for drinking water are looking beyond traditional approaches as they try to
further stretch a supply already stressed by population growth and an ongoing
drought. … The focus is on three areas, including augmenting the river's flow,
operating the river more efficiently by getting more usable water from the
existing flow and finding better ways to manage the overall system …
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20051212-0843-wst-waterstrategies.html
u
Links / Hintergründe
United Nations Climate Change Conference
(COP 11 and COP/MOP 1)
28.11. – 09.12. 2005, Montreal
http://unfccc.int/meetings/cop_11/items/3394.php
Press Release: United Nations Climate
Change Conference agrees on future critical steps to tackle climate change …
Map: THE WORLD HERITAGE 2004-2005
http://whc.unesco.org/documents/publi_whmap_2004_en.pdf
… das war`s für dieses Jahr ...