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The Technical Session on Urban River Restoration was held by the Regional Centre on urban Water Management as a side event to the 15th National Hydraulic Conference as the largest gathering of the hydraulic-related activities. The top managers from Tehran Municipality, Iran Water Resources Management Company, Iran National Water and Wastewater Company and Tehran University presented their speech and experiences in this session which was highly received by the participants.

The six-day forum organized by the World Water Council and Korean national committee was the largest ever with about 41,000 people from 168 countries and 400 seminars, discussion sessions and exhibitions in Daegu and Gyeongju, North Gyeongsang.

“Pledges made during the 7th Forum will be carried to New York as a major contribution to the adoption of a Sustainable Development Goal on water,” said Benedito Braga, chairman of the World Water Council, at the closing ceremony. “A clear commitment has emerged from this week to carry forward an agenda for action that […]

Many of the problems in the field of water and sanitation are due to lack of consumers’ awareness and also inadequate attention of managers. As a result, improving existing conditions require promotion of public awareness in this area. Meanwhile, media play an important role in changing the general view on the key issues such as water. Specifically, media by assisting people in a better understanding of water could be a reason to find the solution to cope with problems and also encourage the managers and decision makers to pay more attention in this section. This requires […]

The regional workshop and roundtable discussion on “Exploring Different Approaches aimed at Overcoming Environmental Sustainability Challenges” was co-chaired by the Islamic Republic of Iran Ministry of Energy (in coordination with the Department of Environment and with the support of UNESCO Regional Centre on Urban Water Management (RCUWM) – Tehran) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The event was held in Tehran at the Ministry of Energy`s Office on November 22 and 25, 2015 with a case study based field trip to Isfahan carried out in between these dates on November 23 and 24.

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Technical Training Workshop on Advances in Integrated Hydro-Electric Reservoirs Operation was held in Tehran by the Regional Centre on Urban Water Management and in close cooperation with Iran Water Resources Management Company. The international lecturers delivered their speech in the main themes of the workshop which was highly appreciated by the audiences.

By the year 2025 an estimated 4 billion people will live in countries with high water stress. Indeed, for large parts of the globe a water crisis already exists while for others, crisis loom in the near future. The picture becomes exacerbated in the light of climate change predictions. A need for the sustainable use of water resources is now strongly established internationally. Nonetheless, in many regions of the world associated measures can only postpone the time of crisis. Alternative water resources need to be found, and […]

A high-level conference on water cooperation will take place from 20 to 22 August in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. Organized jointly by the government of Tajikistan and the United Nations, the conference is held within the framework of the International Year of Water Cooperation.

Emomalii Rahmon, the President of Tajikistan, will open the meeting with the Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova; UN-Water Chair, Michel Jarraud; Tajikistan’s Minister for Economic Development and Trade, Sharif Rahimzoda; Uganda’s Water Minister, Flavia Nabugere; and the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), Sven Alkalaj.

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he United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the Ministry of Energy, I. R. Iran have recently launched the International Drought Initiative (IDI) to act as a platform for networking between international entities active in the field of drought.

IDI was approved by the 19th session of the IHP Intergovernmental Council of UNESCO held in Paris, France, July 2010. The interim secretariat for the initiative is provided by the Regional Centre on Urban Water Management (RCUWM) under the auspices of UNESCO in Tehran, Iran.

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Freshwater is an important resource for human health, prosperity and security. Considering the finite nature, increasing demand, and deteriorating quality of freshwater, the need to protect and manage these resources properly is crucial. Arid and semi-arid areas face the greatest pressures to deliver and manage freshwater resources globally. Water scarcity and prolonged drought period caused various negative impacts in arid and semi-arid areas including overexploitation of groundwater and depletion of water table in aquifers.

Droughts remain a widely underestimated natural hazard because they develop very gradually, covering large areas, often going unnoticed […]

The frequency of natural disasters between 1990 and 2006, particularly water-related disasters, has increased markedly – as has the estimated economic damage they cause. Extreme events have also become more frequent. Between 1900 and March 2007, 16301 disaster events were recorded throughout the world – 6.27 billion people were affected; fatalities were more than 37.58 million and the estimated economic damage was more than US$1,790 billion. In terms of fatalities and the number of people affected, Asia is the region most vulnerable to water-related disasters, accounting for more than 45% of fatalities and more than 90% […]