Technical Training Workshop on Advances in Integrated Hydro-Electric Reservoirs Operation was held in Tehran by the Regional Centre on Urban Water Management and in close cooperation with Iran Water Resources Management Company. The international lecturers delivered their speech in the main themes of the workshop which was highly appreciated by the audiences.
By the year 2025 an estimated 4 billion people will live in countries with high water stress. Indeed, for large parts of the globe a water crisis already exists while for others, crisis loom in the near future. The picture becomes exacerbated in the light of climate change predictions. A need for the sustainable use of water resources is now strongly established internationally. Nonetheless, in many regions of the world associated measures can only postpone the time of crisis. Alternative water resources need to be found, and […]
A high-level conference on water cooperation will take place from 20 to 22 August in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. Organized jointly by the government of Tajikistan and the United Nations, the conference is held within the framework of the International Year of Water Cooperation.
Emomalii Rahmon, the President of Tajikistan, will open the meeting with the Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova; UN-Water Chair, Michel Jarraud; Tajikistan’s Minister for Economic Development and Trade, Sharif Rahimzoda; Uganda’s Water Minister, Flavia Nabugere; and the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), Sven Alkalaj.
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he United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the Ministry of Energy, I. R. Iran have recently launched the International Drought Initiative (IDI) to act as a platform for networking between international entities active in the field of drought.
IDI was approved by the 19th session of the IHP Intergovernmental Council of UNESCO held in Paris, France, July 2010. The interim secretariat for the initiative is provided by the Regional Centre on Urban Water Management (RCUWM) under the auspices of UNESCO in Tehran, Iran.
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Freshwater is an important resource for human health, prosperity and security. Considering the finite nature, increasing demand, and deteriorating quality of freshwater, the need to protect and manage these resources properly is crucial. Arid and semi-arid areas face the greatest pressures to deliver and manage freshwater resources globally. Water scarcity and prolonged drought period caused various negative impacts in arid and semi-arid areas including overexploitation of groundwater and depletion of water table in aquifers.
Droughts remain a widely underestimated natural hazard because they develop very gradually, covering large areas, often going unnoticed […]
The frequency of natural disasters between 1990 and 2006, particularly water-related disasters, has increased markedly – as has the estimated economic damage they cause. Extreme events have also become more frequent. Between 1900 and March 2007, 16301 disaster events were recorded throughout the world – 6.27 billion people were affected; fatalities were more than 37.58 million and the estimated economic damage was more than US$1,790 billion. In terms of fatalities and the number of people affected, Asia is the region most vulnerable to water-related disasters, accounting for more than 45% of fatalities and more than 90% […]
Every three years since 1997, the World Water Forum mobilizes creativity, innovation, competence and know-how in favour of water. It gathers all stakeholders around today’s local, regional and global issues that cannot be undertaken without all stakeholders into a common framework of goals and concrete targets to reach.
The goal of the 6th World Water Forum is to tackle the challenges our world is facing and to bring water high on all political agendas. There will be no sustainable development while the water issues remain unsolved. Everywhere on the planet, […]
In recent years there has been growing evidence that the earth’s climate will become warmer in the 21st century, which raises the essential question: What impacts will global warming have on the environment and human activities? Warming will cause hydrologic changes that will affect freshwater resources. These are among the most significant potential impacts of climate change. As the climate warms, there will be changes in the nature of global precipitation, evaporation, snow pack, stream flow and other factors that will affect freshwater supply and quality. Climate change will present challenges to water utilities, and planning […]
Today the role of water as a vital and precious substance, as a simulating force in socio-economic development and as key factor in water ecosystem conservation is obvious and clear.
While this importance is particularly prominent and tangible in the Islamic countries, which are located in the arid and semi-arid regions of the world and are suffering from intensive water shortage, our water management problems and challenges are not confined to the natural shortage of water resources: inappropriate methods of water management along with incremental deterioration of water quality have been additional […]
The Regional Centre on Urban Water Management Planning Conference in part fulfillment of the assignment to Rodenhuis Consult by UNESCO – Paris under contract 4500020525. The objective of this contract is to assist in the preparation of an action plan, including fund raising actions for the Regional Centre for Urban Water Management (RCUWM), Tehran, through a Planning Conference to be held in Tehran from 25 to 26 February 2005, followed by a Donor’s Conference later in 2005. The Contractor will assist in setting the scope and structure of these events, advising on contacts with international organizations […]
