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Today, Friday, December 2, starting at 4:30 AM, training on the important topic of “Principles and Fundamentals of Rainfall-Runoff-Flood Modeling” commenced on the fifth day of the educational program “Integrated Watershed Management under Climate Change Conditions”. In this regard, a proposed model was presented in an exercise, and rainfall-runoff-flood modeling was implemented, with results extracted at the level of a watershed in the country. The Regional Center on Urban Water Management has planned to implement all the topics discussed in this course and other experiences related to “Integrated Watershed Management,” through a training […]

The book “Planning for Safe Wastewater Treatment” has been translated and published by the Regional Centre on Urban Water Management. This essential resource addresses the challenges and management risks associated with wastewater treatment, emphasizing the importance of implementing safety measures throughout the wastewater management chain, including collection, treatment, and reuse. With the increasing need for effective public health strategies, this guide outlines a risk-based approach that assists policymakers and practitioners in enhancing wastewater safety.

Activities included:

• Delivering a presentation on applying the Blue Green concept in urban development in Water and City Conference, Yazd
• Preparing a general Terms of Reference for applying Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD) to urban development (retrofitted or new)
• Contributing to interview questions for Taleghan City on fringe rights and usage, environmental and water quality issues
• Writing the introduction of the UNESCO book Advances in urban water management in arid and semi-arid regions, which summarises chapters on water management submitted by academics from around the world.
  • Provided feedback and comments on each chapter
• Preparing a presentation on WSUD […]
  

Regional Workshop and Roundtable Discussion: Exploring Different Approaches aimed at Overcoming Environmental Sustainability Challenges

Date: 22-25 November 2015

Venue: Tehran and Isfahan, Iran

Co-organizers: ICRC, MoE, DoE

Participating Countries/Organizations: Afghanistan, Iraq, Switzerland, Syria, UK

Number of Participants: 40

Number of Female Participants: 7 (18%)

Objectives/Outcomes:

Discussions focused on creating a better understanding of the root causes of the water crisis in the region, to determine the relationship between environmental sustainability and occurring emergency conditions.

Political considerations on the basis of existing procedures in order to overcome the challenges of environmental sustainability

Practical measures […]

Date: July 2016- Ongoing

Description: Precipitation Estimation from Remotely Sensed Information using Artifical 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 […]

The six-day forum organized by the World Water Council and Korean national committee was the largest ever with about 41,000 people from 168 countries and 400 seminars, discussion sessions and exhibitions in Daegu and Gyeongju, North Gyeongsang.

“Pledges made during the 7th Forum will be carried to New York as a major contribution to the adoption of a Sustainable Development Goal on water,” said Benedito Braga, chairman of the World Water Council, at the closing ceremony. “A clear commitment has emerged from this week to carry forward an agenda for action that […]