Extreme weather conditions, for example, floods, droughts and sea level rise have become more common in the Asia-Pacific region recently. These are attributed to the deep impact of climate changes on water. Especially, developing countries are vulnerable to the negative impact of climate changes. Mo more...

Responding to Global Change: Accessing Water for the Common Good

The Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) hosts the World Water Week, which is the leading annual global meeting place for the planet’s water issues. The week focuses on capacity-building, partnership-developing and follo more...

The effective management of wastewater infrastructure assets, such as collection systems, treatment works and disposal or recycling operations is a challenging issue for utility companies. The aim of effective management is to minimise the cost of ownership and operation, whilst providing an accepta more...

An international conference is being arranged that will focus on economic, financial and statistical aspects of water and sanitation. The conference is being planned by the IWA Statistics & Economics Specialist Group with the co-operation and sponsorship of the Department of Environmental Engineerin more...

The Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC), based at Loughborough University, is one of the world's leading education, training, research and consultancy institutes concerned with improving access to infrastructure services for people in low- and middle-income countries.

The WEDC Intern more...

Date: February 23, 2009 - February 24, 2009
Location: Canada Centre for Inland Waters, 867 Lakeshore Road, Burlington, Ontario
Theme: Science Meets Policy

If you require assistance, please contact Naomi Warrier, Symposium Coordinator at Naomi.Warrier@ec.gc.ca

The 3rd International Dry Toilet Conference will be held in Tampere, Finland,
on 12-15 August 2009.

The purpose of the DT2009 is to continue the progress achieved by the previous conferences, DT2003 and DT2006, organized in 2003 and 2006 respectively. The objective of the conference is to offer more...

Capacity Building Series (2008- 09)
Training On Drinking Water Quality Management
From: 16 Dec - 18 Dec 2008
Vasant Kunj, New Delhi

INTRODUCTION

Water, the elixir of life! Alas, today this phrase remains a misnomer. The entire ecosystem existence is based on water .It runs like blood in o more...

'The aim of this Workshop on water for health as part of the World Water Forum in Istanbul in March 2009 is to identify priority actions regarding the exchange of experiences and technological developments in order to reach millennium goals!' Point of view - Antoine FREROT - CEO of Veolia Water. Som more...

The aim of this meeting, organised in the framework of OECD´s Global Forum on Sustainable Development, is to discuss the key policy conclusions and recommendations emerging from the two-year OECD Horizontal Water Programme. The main findings will be integrated in a Synthesis Report that will be ava more...