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1st Workshop on Essential Quality Assured Data and Information for Integrated Urban Water Management, 23 June 2021

2021-11-28T12:32:07+03:3023rd June, 2021|

The Online Workshop on ” Data and Information for Integrated Urban Water Management” was successfully held with the participation of lecturers and over 100 participants from around 17 countries around the globe, including RCUWM Governing Board Member States (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Germany, India, Iran, Iraq, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Sri Lanka, Syria, Tajikistan, and  Turkey) and France, Japan and USA.

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Agenda: Download

Cooperation Modality (Country Report Template): Download

Click on the below buttons in order to download each presentation file according to the above agenda: Setting the scene: Importance of in- situ and remote sensing data for decision-making in water management […]

A webinar to discuss 2021 World Water Day Report (Valuing Water)

2022-09-21T12:37:12+04:3029th May, 2021|

The webinar on World Water Day Report Discussion, Valuing Water, was held virtually via Microsoft Teams on 1 June 2021, with participation of around 200 water experts.

This webinar was organized by RCUWM in close cooperation with UNESCO Tehran Cluster Office.

Please download world water day 2021 executive summary and facts and figures report, and the lecturers’ presentations through the  following buttons:

World Water Day 2021- Executive Summary Report World Water Day 2021- Facts & Figures Report 1.Valuing Water Infrastructure (Mr. Hajrasouliha) 2.Valuing Water Services (Mr. Kashfi) 3.Valuing Water in Socio- Economic Activity (Mr. Shahnian) 4.Valuing Water Resources (Mr. […]

12th Governing Board Meeting (GBM 2021)

2021-05-29T13:37:13+04:3026th May, 2021|

12th Governing Board Meeting (GBM-2021) was held as a video conference due to COVID-19 pandemic

RCUWM GB Meeting was held online (e-meeting) on Wednesday 26 May 2021, 09:00 am, UTC. with the participation of delegations from 18 countries including:

At Ministerial Level/ Head of Water-related National Authorities: Afghanistan, Armenia, Bangladesh, Iran, Sri Lanka, Syria, Tajikistan

At Vice Minister/Deputy Ministers: Oman, Pakistan, Qatar and Turkey

Director Generals/ Head of Organizations: Azerbaijan, Egypt, Germany, Iraq, India, Switzerland, Uzbekistan

As well as representatives of international organizations including

UNESCO, […]

Webinar On “COVID-19 Pandemic: Charting New Normal for Urban Water & Wastewater Services”

2020-11-07T10:09:33+03:3014th October, 2020|

Online Workshop on “Charting New Normal for Urban Water & Wastewater Services” 14 October 2020
The online workshop on “Charting New Normal for Urban Water & Wastewater Services” was held on 14 October 2020 as one of the approved proposals of the RCUWM Governing Board Meeting (GBM-2020) which was held online (e-meeting) on Wednesday 23 September 2020. This online workshop has been organized jointly with UNESCO Regional Centre on Urban Water Management (RCUWM-Tehran), the International Water Association (IWA), and the Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme (IHP) of UNESCO. Around 80 participants (18% female) from 27 countries including Afghanistan, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, Brazil, Canada, Egypt, […]

RCUWM Governing Board Meeting (GBM-2020) was held as a video conference due to COVID-19 pandemic

2020-10-18T11:33:42+03:3024th September, 2020|

RCUWM GB Meeting was held online (e-meeting) on Wednesday 23 September 2020, 10:00 am, GMT with the participation of delegations from 16 countries including

At Ministerial Level/ Head of Water-related National Authorities: Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Iran, Iraq, Qatar, Syria, and Tajikistan

At Vice Minister/Deputy Ministers/ Director Generals/ Head of Organizations: Armenia, Egypt, Germany, India, Oman, Switzerland, Turkey, Uzbekistan

As well as representatives of international organizations including

UNESCO, UN-RC/WFP and UN Offices in Tehran (UTCO, UNITAR, UNESCAP), ECO, GWP, IsDB, IWA, and OWS.

Among the most important issues discussed at the meeting was joint projects and transfer of experiences in the field of urban water management, support […]

چگونه از طریق آزمایش و آنالیز فاضلاب می توان میزان شیوع ویروس کرونای جدید را آشکار کرد

2020-04-08T13:07:03+04:308th April, 2020|

ترجمه متن منتشره در نشریه معتبر نیچر، تاریخ انتشار 15 فروردین 1399 مطابق با سوم آوریل 2020

برای مطالعه اصل مقاله به زبان انگلیسی و رعایت حقوق مؤلفین لطفا به لینک زیر مراجعه فرمایید:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00973-x

ترجمه توسط: مرکز منطقه ­ای مدیریت آب شهری

خلاصه نکات مهم:

مواد ژنتیکی ویروس بیماری کووید 19 (به اصطلاح RNA) در فاضلاب قابل ردیابی است. آزمایش فاضلاب تصفیه­ خانه ­ها می ­تواند به عنوان روشی برای برآورد تعداد کل مبتلایان و روند تغییرات به شمار رود.

[…]

How sewage could reveal true scale of Coronavirus outbreak

2020-04-08T14:48:00+04:308th April, 2020|

برای دریافت ترجمه فارسی اینجا را کلیک کنید

Wastewater testing could also be used as an early-warning sign if the virus returns.

by: Smriti Mallapaty

More than a dozen research groups worldwide have started analysing wastewater for the new coronavirus as a way to estimate the total number of infections in a community, given that most people will not be tested. The method could also be used to detect the coronavirus if it returns to communities, say scientists. So far, researchers have found traces of the virus in the Netherlands, the United States and Sweden.

Analysing wastewater — used water that goes […]

Regional Training Workshop on “Advances in Remote Sensing Application in Water Resources Management” Muscat, Oman

2020-02-25T15:00:27+03:3017th February, 2020|

The Regional Training Workshop on Advances in Remote Sensing Application in Water Resources Management has been held in Muscat, Oman on 17-19 February 2020 as one of the approved proposals of the 10th RCUWM Governing Board Meeting which had been held in 5 December 2019 in Tehran, Iran.
This event has been hosted by the Ministry of the Regional Municipalities and Water Resources (MRMWR), Sultanate of Oman and co-organized by MRMWR and RCUWM.
Around 60 participants from member states of RCUWM Governing Board, of whom 37% were female, and from states including Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Egypt, Germany, India, Iran, Iraq, Oman, Pakistan, and Turkey […]

Third Period of Activities of RCUWM

2019-12-22T16:04:07+03:3022nd December, 2019|

The 10th meeting of the UNESCO Regional Centre on Urban Water Management (RCUWM)’s Governing Board in Tehran has been held. Dr. Reza Ardakanian, Minister of Energy of I.R. Iran and GB Chair said the RCUWM regional center in Tehran was established as a hub for cooperation among the countries of the region.

“It has been largely welcomed as we are in an arid region which has been plagued by wars in recent years. Wars that have caused extensive damage to the infrastructure of some countries in the region,” he said.

“Of course, transferring knowledge and experience from other parts of the world and […]

Iran spring flood situation

2019-10-08T14:49:45+03:3016th April, 2019|

Recent floods in Iran, especially in Khuzestan province and the western watershed, have been a heavy and damaging experience for Iran. Considering the importance of learning lessons and gaining experience, satellite imagery and flood alert system reports of the European Union, presented here. A report of four weeks of floods using maps was translated and edited by the UNESCO Center for Urban Water Management for Persian people.

The most important flood events/news during the four weeks of flood in March-April 2019 were:

Week 1.

  • Heavy rainfall has been affecting northern and southern Iran, most of Iraq, as well as eastern Turkey over the […]
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