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Development of a Grid-Based Precipitation Dataset for West Asia to Feed Climate Change Studies

2019-09-21T10:41:46+04:3016th July, 2016|

Date: July 2016- On-going

Objectives/Outcomes:

Precipitation Estimation from Remotely Sensed Information using Artificial Neural Networks (PERSIANN) is one of the popular satellite-based precipitation estimations which has three products in different spatio-temporal resolutions. In majority of cases, these data are used in policy making and therefore the users normally don’t have necessary technical capacity to work with these special file formats. Thus, a user-friendly precipitation database will be a great asset   in monitoring long-term climate patterns, particularly in studying the climate change patterns in arid and semi-arid areas of West Asia (including: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan) which lack this vital […]

Second Meeting: UNESCO World’s Large Rivers Initiative (WLRI) Working Group

2019-09-17T15:22:50+04:3027th June, 2016|

Date: 27-28 June 2016

Venue: Vienna, Austria

Organizer: University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences of Vienna

Participating Countries/Organizations: River Experts from all over the world

Number of Participations: 30

Number of Female Participations: 15 (50%)

Objectives/Outcomes:

  • To create the knowledge base required for a holistic scientific assessment of the state of the World Large Rivers (WLRs)
  • To promote their integrated and sustainable management
  • To analyze the current state and the future development of the WLRs
  • To establish a platform to build, facilitate and harvest hydrological science synergies between countries and to provide education and training at technical and tertiary level
  • To develop innovative strategies for the […]

Fourth Governing Board Meeting: The International Centre for Water Resources and Global Change (ICWRGC)

2019-09-18T11:01:31+04:3021st June, 2016|

Date: 21 June 2016

Venue: Federal Foreign Office- Berlin, Germany

Organizer: ICWRGC

Participating Countries/Organizations: ICWRGC, RCUWM-Tehran, ICWC– Sweden, ERCE– Poland and ICIWaRM

Number of Participants: 85

Number of Female Participants: 12 (14%)

Objectives/Outcomes:

  • Adoption of the minutes of the third Governing Board meeting
  • Thematic highlights of ICWRGC 2015/2016/1017
  • Regional Water Cooperation, Meeting IHP Region I, Koblenz May 2016
  • Cooperation and networking among Centres (MoU), Report of Meeting Cat 2 Science Centres, May 2016
  • IWRGC funding, third party funding and support by BfG administration

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Twenty-Second Meeting: The Intergovernmental Council of the IHP of UNESCO

2019-09-17T15:50:31+04:3013th June, 2016|

Date: 13-17 June 2016

Venue: Paris, France

Organizer: UNESCO-IHP

Participating Countries/Organizations: UNESCO Water Family

Number of Participants: 85

Number of Female Participants: 27 (31%)

Objectives/Outcomes:

To review the progress on the implementation of the eighth phase of IHP (IHP-VIII), including regional perspectives on IHP and its cooperation with other UNESCO programme and, to examine the status of the UNESCO’s Water Family, which includes the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, category 2 Centres and chairs under the auspices of UNESCO and the World Water Assessment Programme. [...]

First Global Meeting: UNESCO’s Natural Sciences

2019-09-18T10:57:23+04:3016th May, 2016|

Date: 16-18 May 2016

Venue: Beijing, China

Co-organizers: UNESCO Beijing Cluster Office

Participating Countries/Organizations: UNESCO Water Family

Number of Participants: 86

Number of Female Participants: 31(36%)

Objectives/Outcomes:

  • Developing and information networking in the field of urban water management and drought mitigation strategies in the region

International Conference: Urban River Restoration

2019-09-17T15:10:04+04:309th May, 2016|

Date: 9 May 2016

Venue: Tehran, Iran

Co-organizers: RCUWM-Tehran, Tehran municipality, Iran Water Resources Management Company

Participating Countries/Organizations: Germany, Japan, and South Korea

Participants: 930

Number of Female Participants: 405 (43%)

Objectives/Outcomes:

  • The relationship between city, citizens and rivers
  • Requirements and measures for urban river restoration and training and flood management
  • How to participate stakeholders and residents in river restoration projects
  • Presenting new approaches on urban river management and related experiences in Iran, Germany, Japan and South Korea

Non-Revenue Water (NRW)

2019-09-21T10:19:19+04:301st February, 2016|

Date: February 2016- March 2017

In the Islamic Republic of Iran, the National Water and Wastewater Engineering Company (NWWEC) controls the administration of the water supply. As a measure to mitigate water shortages, it encourages the reduction of non-revenue water (NRW) using its own technologies. However, due to the deterioration of aging facilities, the average percentage of NRW is still in excess of 25%.

The Government of Iran requested Japanese technical cooperation to deal with NRW in Khansar City in Isfahan Province. A survey was implemented to gather and analyze background information relating to the water supply sector in Iran, and to identify […]

Workshop: Value Engineering and Planning of Ecological Buffer in Urban Rivers

2019-09-21T10:01:30+04:3023rd January, 2016|

Date: 23-24 January 2016

Venue: Faculty of Environment, University of Tehran, Iran

Organizer: RCUWM- Tehran

Participating Countries/Organizations: RCUWM- Tehran, TETCO, University of Tehran

Number of Participants: 45

Number of Female Participants: 15 (34%)

Objectives/Outcomes:

  • Defining ecological buffer zones in urban areas
  • Introducing the role of value engineering and planning ecological buffer zones in urban rivers
  • Explaining objectives and necessities of holding the workshop on value engineering
  • Presenting ecological buffers and areas in the metropolitan area of Tehran in urban development projects
  • Evaluating the riverbed concept and instructions on determination of flood fringe
  • Reviewing international experiences on defining ecological buffer zones and related instructions
  • Presenting experiences on urban […]

Technical Visit: Water and Wastewater Facilities, Public Relations Network

2019-09-17T15:06:00+04:3022nd January, 2016|

Date: 22 – 29 January 2016

Venue: Singapore, Malaysia

Co-organizers: NWWEC, RCUWM- Tehran

Participating Countries/Organizations: Director Managers, Urban Water & Wastewater Public Relation Offices

Number of Participants: 18

Number of Female Participants: 2 (11%)

Objectives/Outcomes:

The third group included 18 experts and managers of public relations offices of urban and rural water and wastewater companies visiting Malaysia and Singapore’s the Water and Wastewater Facilities as the two leading countries in the water    industry.

The participants visited Pantai 2 Wastewater Treatment Plants, Smart Tunnel, Putrajaya Smart City, Lake and Wetland Management of Malaysia and University of Technology of Malaysia as well as Newaters Wastewater Treatment Plant, Marina Barrage Basin and […]

Technical session: River Technology for Innovation and Social System on the Occasion of WECC 2015

2019-09-18T10:10:40+04:304th December, 2015|

Date: 29 November-2 December 2015

Venue: Kyoto, Japan

Co-organizers: The Japan Federation of Engineering Societies, RCUWM–Tehran, Science Council of Japan, UNESCO, WFEO

Participating Countries/Organizations: China, Iran, Japan, Lebanon, South Korea, Taiwan, The Netherlands

Number of Participants: 50

Number of Female Participants: 17 (34%)

Objectives/Outcomes:

  • Providing an opportunity to discuss and exchange new information, technology and experiences associated with river technologies among the participants in the WECC 2015.

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