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Tehran Water Conservation Demonstration

2019-09-18T14:01:15+04:301st July, 2005|

Date: July 2005- February 2006

Objectives/Outcomes:

This demonstration project, supported by RCUWM-Tehran and partly funded by ESCAP, is part of the process to establish a range of in-house water savings measures which could be form the basis for a city-wide water efficiency plan for Tehran. It is noted that there are a range of other measures, such as financial incentives and legal/regulatory measures, but due to the limited time frame available, focus under this project is on technical and public awareness measures.

The overall objective was to achieve measurable progress in improving the utilization efficiency of water resources by replicating best practices in water-use […]

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Conference: RCUWM-Tehran Planning

2019-09-18T13:59:34+04:3025th February, 2005|

Date: 25- 26 February 2005

Venue: Tehran, Iran

Co-organizers: RCUWM-Tehran, UNESCO

Participating Countries/ Organizations: Bangladesh, Egypt, Germany, Iran, Oman, Syria, Tajikistan, ALTERRA, CEP, IDB, Sharif University (Iran), TIWA, UNDP, UNESCO, UNHCR

Number of Participants: 37

Number of Female Participants: 3 (8%)

Objectives/Outcomes:

The Planning Conference was held aimed at establishing a project portfolio for future programme and work plan of RCUWM-Tehran. The main objective of holding this conference was to attract funding. This goal will be followed by organizing a Donors Conference which is supposed to be held later.

The participants attended this conference from different research organizations, potential donors from funding agencies, National Governmental and Non- Governmental […]

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Trainers Meeting: Integrated Urban Water Resource Management – Project Document for RCUWM

2019-09-18T13:55:08+04:3011th December, 2004|

Date: 11 – 13 December 2004

Venue: Tehran, Iran

Co-organizers: RCUWM-Tehran, UNESCO Tehran Cluster Office, UNESCO New Delhi Regional Office

Participating Countries/ Organizations: India, Iran, Lebanon, Nepal, Sri Lanka, UNESCO Office in New Delhi, UNESCO Tehran Office and UNESCO Headquarters

Number of Participants: 15

Number of Female Participants: 6 (40%)

Objectives/Outcomes:

-Urge RCUWM-Tehran to approach relevant ministries of various countries and national focal points (National Committees for IHP) in the region to receive more feedback on the needed topics. Feedbacks should be drawn from Delhi Cluster, Iran Cluster, Almaty Cluster, and countries served by Cairo office;

-Urge UNESCO cluster offices in /Tehran, New Delhi and Almaty in active coordination […]

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Workshop: Management of Aquifer Recharge and Water Harvesting in Arid and Semi-Arid Regions of Asia

2019-09-18T13:53:46+04:301st November, 2004|

Date: 27 November – 1 December 2004

Venue: Yazd, Iran

Co-organizers: ICQHS-Yazd, RCUWM-Tehran, UTCO

Participating Countries/ Organizations: Afghanistan, Belgium, China, England, France, Iran, India, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan

Number of Participants: 52

Number of Female Participants: 4 (7%)

Objectives/Outcomes:

  • Recognizing the state of the art with regard to rainwater harvesting and management of aquifer recharge technology
  • Recognizing the role of dissemination and training
  • Emphasizing the regional issues

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Workshop: Promotion of Women’s Participation in Water Management

2019-09-18T13:52:40+04:3023rd February, 2004|

Date: 23 -24 February 2004

Venue: Tehran, Iran

Co-organizers: RCUWM-Tehran, Ministry of Energy

Participating Countries/ Organizations: Germany, Iran, Jordan, The Netherlands, GWA, RCTWS-Cairo, TIWA, UNESCAP, UNESCO

Number of Participants: 85

Number of Female Participants: 63 (74%)

Objectives/Outcomes:

  • Establishing a conductive environment for women’s participation
  • Reiterating the necessity of making more cooperation as operational means aimed at gender mainstreaming
  • Emphasizing on creating more opportunities for women in managerial and decision making sectors.
  • Promoting women’s training in different technical fields
  • Establishing women communities within governmental organizations
  • Establishing a unit of gender information in water affair section of Ministry of Energy or other Ministries to provide the possibility of generating […]
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Master Plan Study on Water Management in Kabul River Basin

2019-09-21T11:07:07+04:301st January, 2004|

Date: January – December 2004

Objectives/Outcomes:

  1. Analysing existing water resources conditions of Kabul basin;
  2. Water resources and demand assessment
  3. Analysing the options and selecting the best feasible projects for fulfilment of water demands with taking the environmental requirement into consideration
  4. Preparing the following plans with taking the natural, technical, socio- economical and financial constraints into account:
  • Developing agricultural and irrigation plans and water resources development projects;
  • Urban and industrial water supply plans;
  • Water quality management plans;
  • Demand management plans;
  • Basic data and information acquisition plans.

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International Workshop: Policies and Strategic Option for Water Management in the Islamic Countries

2019-09-18T13:39:57+04:3015th December, 2003|

Date: 15 – 16 December 2003

Venue: Tehran – Iran

Co-organizers: RCUWM-Tehran, IDB

Participating Countries/Organizations: Bangladesh, Egypt, France, Iran, Jordan, Libya, Malaysia, Oman, Tajikistan, The Netherlands, Turkey, and Yemen

Number of Participants: 38

Number of Female Participants: 3 (7%)

Objectives/Outcomes:

  • Water and Environment
  • Water Resources Management in Critical Conditions
  • Shared Water Resource Management
  • Participatory Water Management

Several issues including importance of exchanging knowledge and experiences, capacity building, research, education, participatory approaches in water management and global attention to integrated water resources management were highlighted subjects considered in the concluding remarks, the proceedings of the above-mentioned symposium was published and disseminated by UNESCO-IHP within the framework of technical documents […]

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Training Workshop: Water Demand Managements (WDM)

2019-09-18T13:44:27+04:301st September, 2003|

Date: 6 -19 September 2003

Venue: Power and Water Institute of Technology, Tehran, Iran

Co-organizers: RCUWM-Tehran, UNESCO

Participating Countries/Organizations: Bahrain, Fiji, Iran, Malaysia Oman, Pakistan, Uzbekistan

Number of participants: 22

Number of Female Participants: 5 (23%)

Objectives/Outcomes:

  • Making the participants familiar with principles and concepts of Water Demand Management by presenting good practices and case studies in the region
  • Transferring new approaches from developing countries to the states in the region
  • Strengthening national capabilities of the participation in the formulation and implementation of activities related to different aspects of Water Demand Management

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Workshop: Promotion of Public Awareness of Water Conservation

2019-09-18T13:48:23+04:301st May, 2003|

Date: 7-9 May 2003

Venue: Tehran, Iran

Co-organizers: RCUWM-Tehran, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)

Participating Countries/Organizations: Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, England, Iran, Japan, Pakistan, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Uzbekistan

Number of Participants: 42

Number of Female Participants: 8 (19%)

Objectives/Outcomes:

  • Capacity building for promoting water conservation awareness
  • Required job skills for a position to be effective along with the skills and training needs
  • It was finally decided that participant countries should formulate, adopt and implement measures to enhance the national capacities for promotion of public awareness on water conservation and water use efficiency in all sectors.

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Urban Water Management in the Region (Inventory, Problem Assessments and Scenarios for Development)

2019-09-21T11:02:45+04:301st March, 2003|

Date: March 2003- November 2004

Objectives/Outcomes:

In this report the demographic, economic and urbanization challenges of the region, as well as methodology and some preliminary results were presented.

Based on the analysis of these conducted studies, the following interventions should be addressed:

  • Develop water demand management strategy and campaign;
  • Improve wastewater collection and treatment systems;
  • Encourage reuse and recycling of treated wastewater;
  • Renovate or replace aging infrastructure by adapted systems;
  • Install leakage detection systems in water supply networks and reduce UFW;
  • Promote water conservation (e.g. reduce subsidies, promote block tariffs, install meters, public awareness);
  • Improve solid waste management and encourage recycling;
  • Create enabling institutional […]
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