The 7th World Water Forum aims to create an open platform where various stakeholders can exchange their views on water, find solutions, and interact with the international community. The Citizen's Forum is designed in this regard and its specific…

  The UNESCO Chair/International Network of Water-Environment Centres for the Balkans (INWEB) on "sustainable management of water and conflict resolution" was established in July 2003 at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh), Department of…

Many towns and villages in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia are under the water, while in areas so far spared there is a bitter struggle against further flooding. Large population have been evacuated and all available resources in the…

  I am pleased to invite you to participate in the drafting of our next two "Handbooks on Basin Management", which will be published next year on the occasion of the World Water Forum in Daegu-Gyeongju in South Korea.   These two Handbooks will fit…

   1. Context and objectives   The "EUROPE-INBO" group, created in Valencia, Spain, in 2003 by the European Basin Organisations of INBO for the implementation of the Water Framework Directive (WFD), aims at enriching the implementation of water…

The OECD online Survey on Stakeholder Engagement for Effective Water Governance.   Please complete the Survey for 5 May 2014 or at least as soon as possible in English, French or Spanish.   This Survey aims to collect data on stakeholder engagement…

INBO-Academy (International Network of Basin Organisations) and CIREF (Iberian Centre for River Restoration), in coordination with ECRR (European Centre for River Restoration), join their forces to propose to Basin Organizations management staff,…

The Thiess International Riverprize was first awarded in 1999, and has grown to become the world's most prestigious environmental award. There are now 15 international winners and more than 50 finalists who have demonstrated their outstanding…

 Recruitment of the necessary high calibre technical and administrative staff, to provide VBA with the technical competence to carry out its responsibilities according to the needs of the Strategic Plan who are: Strengthening policies, legislation…

The Project will be implemented by the Global Water Partnership Organisation (GWPO) in partnership with the ANBO Technical Secretariat which is under l'Organisation pour la mise en valeur du Fleuve Séngégal (OMVS). A joint GWP/ANBO Project Steering…

It took place in Dori, 13 and 14 June 2012, a national workshop information and awareness on the water charter Niger Basin and Annex No 1 on the protection of the environment.   The charter of the water of the Niger Basin is an international…

"Mr. Teodoro Estrela Monreal, Head of the Hydrological Planning Office of the Júcar River Basin Authority (CHJ) in Valenica (Spain), was appointed new Permanent Technical Secretary of MENBO by Ms. María Ángeles Ureña, President of the CHJ.   CHJ…

The China Europe Water Platform was launched in March 2012 at the 6th World Water Forum as a new working group of the EU Water Initiative, with Denmark and Portugal co-leading the work.    The specific purpose of the CEWP Work Programme 2012-2015…

Geneva, 17 March 2012 – The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (UNECE Water Convention), adopted in Helsinki, Finland on 17 March 1992, celebrates…

In total: more than 150 films, from around 50 countries.   The themes: aquatic myths and legends, public bath houses, rites and traditions, protection of wetlands, aquatic ecosystems, right to water and sanitation, floods, dams, pollution, conflict…