French Water Partnership

21 September 2010,
INTERACTIVE WEB CONFERENCE Increasingly, government agencies (often municipalities) bring lawsuits seeking compensation for contaminants found in public water supplies. These are civil lawsuits brought outside the regulatory framework that usually target private businesses. Rather than seeking cooperation in clean-up efforts, the lawsuits seek money damages. The government agencies often partner with non-government attorneys working on a contingency fee basis. This webinar will provide an overview of litigation trends and will address the following: * Where is this litigation most active? * What does the government authority have to prove in order to recover damages? * What role do regulatory cleanup levels play in these private suits? * Does it matter that the contamination is below regulatory levels? * How do plaintiffs establish links between particular chemicals and industry groups?
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Tags : River basin, Governance, International

27-29 September 2011, Tsukuba-Japan
The ICFM5 theme is "Floods : From Risk to Opportunity", reflective of the continued trend towards a broader understanding of how we collectively make use of the opportunities provided by floods and flooding, cope with risks posed by them and plan for and respond to flood events.
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Un simple morceau de T-shirt trempé dans une solution a permis à des chercheurs de filtrer 98% d'une bactérie très répandue dans l'eau. Un espoir pour les pays en voie de développement.
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Tags : Access to water and sanitation, Processings, Africa and Indian ocean, International

Un groupe de chercheurs et d’ingénieurs de cinq pays européens (Portugal, Espagne, France, Italie et Grèce) a coopéré durant trois année dans un projet cofinancé par la commission européenne, pour évaluer la durabilité de l’aquaculture extensive et semi-intensive en zone humide littorale.
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Tags : R & D, Sea farming, Europe, The Mediterranean

Sommaire Penser l'avenir L'anticipation des ruptures L'émergence des idées Le XXe siècle vu par Robida Conflits sur les ressources : l'eau en Asie centrale Editorial La force des idées p. 3 Hugues de Jouvenel L'anticipation des ruptures. La prospective des sciences et techniques, et l’identification précoce des zones de rupture p. 5 Pierre Papon L'émergence des idées. Créativité et prospective : des démarches complémentaires p. 25 Guy Aznar et Stéphane Ely Asie centrale : l'eau, source de convoitises p. 43 Alain Lamballe + Futurs d'antan - Futurs d'antan Albert Robida, explorateur du XXe siècle. Les innovations techniques (1) p. 61 Dominique Lacaze + Tribune européenne - Tribune européenne L'Arménie et l'Europe p. 71 Jean-François Drevet + Actualités prospectives - Actualités prospectives Idées & faits porteurs d'avenir + Bibliographie - Bibliographie Analyses critiques & comptes rendus
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Tags : Water resources, Water use, Asia

9 Sept. 2010 - Stockholm (SWEDEN)
Cap-Net and the International Network of Basin Organisations (INBO) are glad to invite you to their upcoming seminar „Improving Water Governance at the River Basin Level“, during the Stockholm World water Week. This seminar scheduled for Thursday 9 September 2010, from 14:00-17:30 in Room: T6, will have for main objective to examine and measure factors for effective Water Governance by River Basin Organisations. A selection of case studies, together with two discussion sessions will provide participants with a) an improved understanding of the enabling environment necessary to facilitate effective water governance at the river basin scale and b) insights into the potential application of performance monitoring systems at the RBO level.
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Tags : River basin, Water management, Governance, International
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Le 76e Congrès et l’Assemblée générale de la Fédération internationale des associations de bibliothécaires et d'institutions (IFLA) réuni du 10 - 15 Août 2010 à Göteborg en Suède a élu le poster SADIEau comme le meilleur de la 76e session du congrès qui avait pour thème : "Accès libre au savoir, promouvoir un progrès durable". SADIEau, le système Africain d’information sur l’eau, financé par la facilité Européenne de l'Eau avec un cofinancement du MAEE (France) et de DFID (Grande Bretagne) rassemble aujourd’hui une vingtaine organisations africaines anglophones et francophones. Le comité de pilotage du projet est constitué de OIEau (France) - pS-Eau (France) - CREPA (Burkina Faso) - WDEC (Grande Bretagne) et OMVS /RAOB. Le congrès de l’IFLA constitue le « forum mondial des gestionnaires de l’information » au même titre que le forum mondial de l’eau réunit les professionnels du secteur de l’eau. SADIEau a été présenté devant 3 334 congressistes venant de 128 pays, parmi 400 communications et 170 posters. Ce prix est un encouragement pour poursuivre le renforcement de SADIEau dans les prochaines années à travers tout le continent africain.
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Tags : River basin, Water resources, Drought, International
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Participate in the new Consortium Research Program 5 Join the debate at IWMI and Contribute to papers on future research in: Groundwater Pastoral systems Information and knowledge management Integrated soil and water management in rainfed systems Ecosystem services River basins Irrigation Wastewater Gender, governance and partnerships
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Tags : Aquatic environment, R & D, International

Le dessalement de l'eau de mer s'impose dans un certain nombre de pays du pourtour méditerranéen en situation de stress hydrique, comme une option pour sécuriser l'alimentation en eau potable des population côtières, compte-tenu de l'accroissement rapide de la demande en eau dans les secteurs de l'agriculture et de l'industrie.
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Tags : Processings, The Mediterranean

27th – 28th September 2010, The Royal Armouries, Leeds
The Water Industry is now faced with seemingly contradictory requirements to deliver large reductions in its carbon footprint whilst gearing up to meet the much tighter standards of the Water Framework Directive, and delivering both of these at a reduced cost to the consumer. The Conference will explore how the industry is gearing up to these challenges by increasing the efficiency of existing technology whilst pushing forward with the development of more novel approaches.
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Tags : WFD, Sustainable development, International

19th – 24th September 2010, Montreal Canada
For over a year now, the African Water Association has undertaken a strategic partnership with the International Water Association (IWA). The recent merger between the ESAR-IWA and the AfWA as well as the opening of an IWA agency in Africa therefore represents one of the key actions of this partnership. As a consequence, there is a synergy as regard the actions carried out by both organizations through the meetings at the international level dealing with the African water and sanitation sector related issues. Among these, one can mention the participation of the AfWA in the latest IWA Development Congress held in Mexico City from November 15th to 20th 2009, and the participation of the IWA in the AfWA 15th Congress held in Kampala, Uganda, from March 15th to 19th 2010 during which the IWA organized many sessions dealing with various thematic related to the water and sanitation issues in the world and particularly in Africa.
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Tags : Access to water and sanitation, Africa and Indian ocean
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12-15 september 2010, Whashington DC
The world’s premier conference devoted to sustaining water supplies through water reuse and desalination. The Symposium is the only place where you will find more than 100 technical presentations devoted exclusively to water reuse and desalination issues. Presented by the WateReuse Association and cosponsored by the American Water Works Association and the Water Environment Federation, the Annual WateReuse Symposium features the most impressive collection of experts in water reuse and desalination assembled each year.
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Tags : Water resources, Processings, International

8th september 2010, Stockholm (World Water Week)
This seminar draws on the convenors’ broad constituencies (developing country governments, multi-lateral agencies, donors and civil society) to contrast different stakeholder perspectives on aid-effectiveness in the sector. Through presentations, plenary and group interaction, the seminar will explore different dimensions of aid-effectiveness. What policies work? What are best practices? What needs to change to improve the effectiveness of available sector aid?
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Tags : Water policy, Access to water and sanitation, International

22-26 September 2010, in Keramoti, Nestos Delta Greece
The workshops are organised in the framework of the project “Sustainable Development in Lake Areas”, which is supported by Fondation de France. The general objective of the project is to support initiatives in sustainable development by exchange on good practice of participatory implementation and local sustainable development. The exchange shall lead to capacity building of private actors, NGOs and local governments in environmentally sensitive areas. The thematic workshops will contribute to the development of local democracy and to a more participative management of environmental resources, in order to fill the gap between European citizens and their institutions, and also via feed-back to decision makers to contribute to environmental and rural policies that better meet peoples’ need for participation. The project’s objectives are - to exchange experiences about different participatory implementation strategies of Nature 2000 and Water Framework Directive (WFD) in concerned rural areas - to give local actors and authorities better access to practical knowledge about sustainable Nature 2000 and WFD implementation strategies via exchange with successful projects - to develop political proposals to regional, state and EU governments to use the existing participatory options that are provided from EU-side in order to support sustainable development in rural areas.
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Tags : WFD, Sustainable development, International

5th September 2010, Stockholm (World Water Week)
Livelihoods depend to a large degree on access to safe, sufficient and reliable water resources. Various places on earth suffer serious water quality and scarcity problems which pose severe threats to public health, food security and enhanced livelihoods. These could be mitigated by using simple small-scale 3R solutions to address large-scale problems. 3R solutions provide hands-on means to enhance water quality and quantity issues. Groundwater recharge, fresh water storage and water quality improvement are examples of some 3R solutions with proven results. Groundwater use and recharge and rainwater storage can be optimized for water quality and climate change adaptation, especially for those living under fragile socio-economic environments. Managing local water buffers enables dealing with increased climate variability, water quality and availability issues simultaneously. In cooperation with local communities these solutions are implementable on a large scale, if more actors start applying and funding 3R approaches. The objective of this seminar is thus to demonstrate that 3R can be effectively used for improving water quality issues through presentation of some findings and best practices on Water Recharge, Retention & Reuse. A 3R water quality toolbox will be presented to showcase an application-oriented view and exchange of already applied practices and experiences.

Tags : Water management, Aquatic environment, International
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20 - 24 September 2010, Harare (Zimbabwe)
IWSD is going to run a professional refresher course on PHHE in emergencies. The overall objective of this course is to strengthen skills of practitioners and professionals in applying participatory approaches in response to cholera and any other WASH related epidemics. The course is aimed at; Sharing of experiences on the use of PHHE tools for cholera and WASH related epidemics. Strengthening skills of trainers in the use of PHHE for cholera awareness, prevention and control. Adapting PHHE tools for cholera control, prevention and awareness. And targets Practitioners that have undertaken PHHE training WASH professionals wishing to enhance and sharpen their skills in using PHHE for cholera response Trainers who would like to offer similar training

Tags : Access to water and sanitation, Processings, Africa and Indian ocean, International
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Les autorités locales et régionales ont su saisir cette opportunité pour contribuer à la Stratégie pour l’Eau en Méditerranée. Elles ont été attentives à ce que cette contribution soit bien prise en compte lors de la conférence ministérielle sur l’Eau qui s’est tenue sous la Présidence espagnole de l’UE à Barcelone en Mai 2010. Cette contribution devrait également constituer une partie essentielle de la session Méditerranée lors du Forum Mondial de l’Eau qui se déroulera à Marseille en 2012.
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Tags : Local actors, Europe, The Mediterranean
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La saison pluvieuse 2010 en Afrique de l’Ouest s’est ouverte avec des tempêtes de grêle en Guinée et les pluies les plus fortes que le nord du Tchad ait connu depuis 50 ans. Les inondations ont tué au moins 80 personnes et détruit les maisons, les ponts, les fosses septiques, le bétail, les récoltes et les réserves de nourriture ; des barrages se sont rompus, et les puits et les latrines ont été submergés. Le Réseau intégré d’informations régionales de l’ONU (IRIN) fait le point sur la situation.
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Tags : Access to water and sanitation, Climate change Global warming, Africa and Indian ocean

5-11 september 2010, Stockholm
The title of this year's conference is "The Water Quality Challenge – Prevention, Wise Use and Abatement".
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L’ONU-Eau a récemment publié une note politique intitulée « L’adaptation au changement climatique : le rôle central de l’eau », destinée aux praticiens et aux décideurs de la gestion des ressources en eau, aux décideurs sectoriels ainsi qu’à ceux qui élaborent les politiques en matière de changement climatique. Cette note expose les investissements et les changements politiques significatifs nécessaires. Elle insiste également sur le fait que les enjeux dus aux impacts du changement climatique sur les ressources en eau requièrent des stratégies d’adaptation aux niveaux local, régional, national et mondial.
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Tags : Water policy, Climate change Global warming, International