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 […]

First Iran’s Category II Centres Meeting

The first brain-storming and review session of Category II Centres under the auspices of UNESCO has been held on 17th of October 2018 which was chaired by Dr. Ali Chavoshian, head of Science Department of Iran National Commission for UNESCO and organizer of these centres, in NAT.COM conference hall.

I.R. Iran hosts 8 regional and international centres under the auspices of UNESCO, each of which has a unique participation in developing different UNESCO goals:

• Regional Centre on Urban Water Management, RCUWM-Tehran
• International Center on Qanats and Historic Hydraulic Structures, […]
  

5 transformational policies for a prosperous and sustainable world

In a talk about how we can build a robust future without wrecking the planet, sustainability expert Johan Rockström debuts the Earth3 model — a new methodology that combines the UN Sustainable Development Goals with the nine planetary boundaries, beyond which earth’s vital systems could become unstable. Learn more about five transformational policies that could help us achieve inclusive and prosperous world development while keeping the earth stable and resilient. […]

The series of expert meetings of Ministry of Energy’s Water Research Institute

First meeting: Water-based drinking water

Panel members:

• Dr. Mohammad Mojabi – Chairman of the Environment Committee of the Expediency Council
• Dr Farzampour Asghar Sangachin – Head of Department of Environment at the National Planning and Budget Organization
• Dr. Sedigheh Torabi – Director General of the Department of Energy’s Water and Water Planning Office
• Dr Hamid Reza Janbaz – Deputy Advisor for Water and Soil Ministry of Agriculture Jihad
• Dr. Barat Ghobadian – Deputy Minister of Education and Research of Ministry of Industry, Mining and […]
  

Director of the National Commission for UNESCO’s Natural Sciences, was appointed

With the decree of the Secretary-General of the UNESCO-Iran Commission and in line with the prospect of development, expansion and realization of the goals of the commission, and in view of the importance of promoting public awareness on the maintenance and preservation of national resources, attention to environmental and natural resources and the importance of protecting Iranian natural resources , Dr. Seyed Ali Chavashian, was appointed director of the Department of Natural Science of the National Commission for UNESCO-Iran.

It is worth mentioning that Chavashian holds a PhD in Water from the […]

International Conference on Water and City is going to be held  on 3-6 September in Yazd, Iran. The main themes of the Conference will be on:

• HYDRAULIC SYSTEMS AND THE IRANIAN CIVILIZATION
• INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCES IN HYDRAULIC SYSTEMS
• LEARNING FROM HISTORY: HYDRAULIC SYSTEMS AND URBAN CIVILIZATION
• WATER ENGINEERING & ARCHITECTURE IN LAND PLANNING AND URBAN DESIGN PROJECTS
• HERITAGE AND INNOVATION: INTEGRATING HYDRAULIC SYSTEMS AND URBAN STRUCTURES TODAY

RCUWM-Tehran is actively participating in this workshop, presenting 2 papers on “River Restoration” and “Blue-Green Plan”.