May 2014 - n° 22
Newsletter
The7
th
WorldWater Forumwill takeplace inDaegu-Gyeongju from13 to
17 April 2015 at the invitation of the South KoreanGovernment and the
WorldWater Council.
It is amajormeeting not to bemissed!
The International Network of Basin Organizations - INBO,
which already
actively participated in the six previous Forums, calls its Members and Obser-
vers togetmobilizedandgo toDaegu topresent their solutions, toexchangeand
discuss in order to develop and improve basinmanagement and transboundary
cooperation in theworld.
Since the 1990s, water management at the level of basins of rivers, lakes or
aquifers has experienced a quick development inmany countries, whichmade it
the basis of their national legislation or tested it in pilot river basins.
The EuropeanWater Framework Directive of 2000 imposes, for example, good
management of the national or international River Basin Districts to the 28
Member States and the candidateCountries of the EuropeanUnion.
Themanagement of the transboundary basins of the 276 rivers and hundreds of
aquifers is takenmoreandmore intoaccountwithinCommissions, Authoritiesor
International BasinOrganizations, which arebeing createdor strengthenedon all
the continents.
Significant progress has been made: basin management works when
there is strongwill of all the stakeholders!
The Forum of Daegu will be the opportunity of reporting on these
progresses and presenting our solutions to face the difficulties which
remain.
INBO
jointly with
OECD, UNESCO
and
UNECE
will especially get involved, in
partnership with all the other interested Organizations,
in the Forum topics
addressing adaptation to climate change, cooperation to reduce
conflicts and improve transboundary water management and gover-
nance, aswell as in several regional processes.
Our ideas are progressing, let’s getmobilized tomake
our solutions known inDaegu inApril 2015!
Kyoto - Japan -March 2003 -WWF 3
Mexico -MexicoCity -March 2006 -WWF 4
Istanbul - Turkey -March 2009 -WWF 5
Marseilles - France -March 2012 -WWF 6
7
th
WorldWater Forum
Daegu-Gyeongju
13 - 17 April 2015
