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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 […]

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 […]

The 10^th 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 […]

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 […]
  

Comparison of recent floods in Iran with the 2007 flood of Britain

Many authorities have been talking about recent floods inundations happening in March 2019 in Iran, comparing them with events in U.S.A or Japan. Regardless of these comparisons, political or not, if the scientific information leading to national flood report and decision-making is to be provided,  the closest event to these recent floods are the ones happened in June and July of 2007 in Britain (England, Scotland and Wales).

The flood […]

The World Water Development Report (WWDR 2019)

The 2019 edition of the World Water Development Report (WWDR 2019) entitled “leaving No One Behind” seeks to inform policy and decision-makers, inside and outside the water community, how improvement and access to water supply and sanitation services are essential to overcoming poverty and addressing various other social and economic inequities. It was launched at the Human Rights Council, at the Plais des Nations in Geneva (Switzerland), on 19 March 2019. You can find more on the following link:

https://en.unesco.org/water-security/wwap/wwdr/2019

The Fourth Symposium of National Water Day

 Water scarcity or water crisis, has drawn the attention of scientists and authorities in many countries, regarding water supply security, environmental conservation, and food security. “The Fourth Symposium of National Water Day” as the last 3 years is going to be held by national commission for UNESCO, in close cooperation with Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture and participation of the deputy of president on women and Family Affairs, National Water and Wastewater Engineering Company, Iran Water Resources Management Company, water and soil deputy of Jihad-e-Agriculture Ministry, Forests, […]

The First Session of National Hyrdrological Committee for UNESCO

The first session of “National Hydrological Committee for UNESCO” was held on 23^rd of January 2019 by participation of member organizations’ representatives and chairing H.E. Dr. Reza Ardakanian, the Minister of Energy of Iran and Chairman of National Hydrological Committee in Iran Water Resources Management Company.

Dr. Hojatollah Ayoubi, as Acting Secretary General, and Dr. Abbas Soroush, as Deputy Minister of Energy and Vice-Chairman of this committee, as well as other representatives from administrative organizations, namely Jihad-e-Agriculture, Department of Environment, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Science, […]

“International Training Workshop on Adaptation to Water Scarcity and Basin-connected Cities”

8^th Asian G-WADI & 2^nd IDI Expert Group Meetings

Two international training workshops entitled as “Adaptation to Water Scarcity” and “Basin-connected Cities” were held as side events of the 2^nd International Drought Initiative (IDI) expert group meeting and the 8^th Asian G-WADI meeting in Mashhad, Iran, by Regional Centre on Urban Water Management (RCUWM-Tehran) under the auspices of UNESCO, Science Department of Iran National Commission for UNESCO (NATCOM), UNESCO Tehran Cluster Office (UTCO) and under the UNESCO-IHP framework, on 10^th to 12^th […]

Tehran’s drastic sinking exposed by satellite data

Now, detailed satellite images reveal the extent of the problem, including that some parts of the Iranian capital are falling by as much as 25 centimetres a year, and that the collapse is spreading to encompass the city’s international airport . Geoscientists Mahdi Motagh and Mahmud Haghshenas Haghighi, both at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam, used satellite data to monitor subsidence across the Tehran region between 2003 and 2017.
Previous work had shown that Tehran […]