Date: October 2016 – Ongoing

Main Objectives:

Water security is defined as sufficient, safe, affordable, and clean water to lead a healthy and productive life for all human beings, where communities are protected from floods, droughts, and water-borne diseases.

This project aims at bringing the concept of water security into practice to support sustainable water governance. In this methodological research, the complex concept of water security is measured by weighted indicators based on different socio-economic and environmental aspects of water such as livelihood, economy, health, environment, water-related hazards, and finally water diplomacy.

The results are presented in the form of a National Water Security […]

Date: February 2017- Ongoing

Main Objectives:

By expanding communication between communities and governments in the international arena and the need for engagement to increase mutual understanding and establish legal frameworks for the expansion of relations, transnational and multilateral arrangements gradually emerged as a means to facilitate negotiations and tools for promoting regional and international institutional cooperation.

The main aim of this document is targeted and effective communication with transnational arrangements and participating

in regional and international events. This document is prepared and developed by the Regional Centre on Urban Water Management (RCUWM-Tehran) in close cooperation with Ministry of Energy Water and Wastewater Department and […]

Date: March 2017- November 2017

Main Objectives:

Quantitative objectives:

-Planning the promotion of scientific and technical knowledge and updating the know-how of general and specialized personnel of the organization using domestic and international experiences

-Capacity building in the field of research and development related to the

Organizations goals:

-Upgrading the archive of   documents qualitatively and quantitatively, increasing the efficiency of the library, documenting the projects and creating a general information and notification process for the organization’s achievements

-Enhancing international technical cooperation, localizing and transferring successful experiences

Date:1 September 2017- Ongoing

Main Objectives:

• Investigating the Role of Water in Urban Planning including: preparing guidelines to take in consideration the proposed water plan and specification to further revision of the Taleghan regional master plan
• Organizing field visit with the technical assistance of Saint-Omer Region experts
• Preparing Water Security Atlas Technical Workshop on “Water and Media” for Journalists

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 […]