Preamble
The International Centre for Water Resources and Global Change (ICWRGC) and the Regional Centre on Urban Water Management (RCUWM) are planning to organize a series of workshops (online and in-person) during the period of 2021-2024. The main objective of these workshops is improving urban water management in Western and Central Asia by discussing important roles of quality assured data and information at basin level.

Objectives and Motivation
An important motivation is the creation of regional network of entities and experts who are managing water-related data from interested RCUWM Governing Board Member States (Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Egypt, Germany, India, Iran, Iraq, Oman, Qatar, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkey, and Uzbekistan) for discussion and capacity development. The objective of the activity is highlighting the importance of quality-assured data and products at basin level as well as water utility level for Integrated Urban Water Management.

1st Workshop on ” Data and Information for Integrated Urban Water Management”, 23 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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Cooperation Modality (Country Report Template): Download

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Setting the scene: Importance of in- situ and remote sensing data for decision-making in water management (Mr. Koike, ICHARM, Japan)
The GEOGloWS Project: Essential Water and Variables and Observations – expected value chain, products, examples (Mr. Huffman, NASA, USA)
The monitoring network of Green Central Asia (Mr. Schöne, GFZ Potsdam, Germany)
What are we aiming for? The prospective of activities (Mr. Köthe, Director ICWRGC)
An introduction to the Global Terrestrial Network Hydrology, GTN-H (Mr. Dietrich, ICWRGC)
Introduction of Global Water Data Centres (GPCC/Mr. Becker, DWD)
Introduction of Global Water Data Centres (GRDC/Mr. Looser, BfG)
Introduction of Global Water Data Centres (GWDC/Mr. Saile, ICWRGC)
Introduction of Cooperation modality template (Mr. Dietrich, ICWRGC)

2nd Workshop on ” Data and Information for Integrated Urban Water Management”, 23 & 24 November 2021

The 2nd  Online Workshop on ” Data and Information for Integrated Urban Water Management” was successfully held with the participation of lecturers and over 100 participants from  12 RCUWM Governing Board Member States (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Egypt, India, Iran, Iraq, Oman, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Syria, and  Turkey) and international lecturers from WMO, GWP,UNEP, IWA and GEO.

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Keynote-1_Drought-prediction-monitoring-at-regional-national-and-local-scale-IDMP
Keynote-2_Improving urban water management using available global data-IWA
Keynote-3_Flood-hazard-mapping-and-prediction-in-poor-gauged-basins-APFM