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With water scarcity now a serious global concern, agencies involved in water resources management internationally are seeking to work together to promote efficient and sustainable solutions. Recycling and reclaiming water should be a key objective for both agricultural and urban supply, says Global Water Partnership’s Executive Secretary Dr Ania Grobicki in an interview with the magazine "Global - the International Briefing".

In 2010 GWP Mediterranean and the Mediterranean Information Office for Environment, Culture and Sustainable Development continued, for the eighth year, to feed information and material on water issues and processes in the region to members of the Circle of Mediterranean Journalists for Environment and Sustainable Development (COMJESD).

The Circle of Mediterranean Parliamentarians for Sustainable Development (COMPSUD) was created with the encouragement of the Mediterranean Information Office for Environment, Culture and Sustainable Development (MIO-ECSDE) and the Global Water Partnership - Mediterranean (GWP Med) in December 2002 in the wake of the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD), which reaffirmed sustainable development as a central element of the international agenda and emphasized the important role of partnerships and dialogue among the various stakeholders and decision makers, including Parliamentarians and politicians at large.

The "Competing for Water" research programme investigates local water conflict and cooperation in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and analyzes the consequences for the poor.

Interview with Charles Tanania Kabobo, member of the Technical and Scientific Committee of the GWP Central Africa as well as expert in charge of the Water Databases Management of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS).

Interview de Camille F. Jepang Sandjong, chargée du Programme Régional Eau et Zones Humides à l’UICN (Union Internationale pour la Conservation de la Nature) Programme pour l’Afrique Centrale et de l’Ouest.

Interview with Camille F. Jepang Sandjong, in charge of IUCN Regional Programme on Wetlands and Water, West and Central Africa Programme (PACO).

In 2010, the Togo Parliament passed a new water law that embraced IWRM principles. Adoption of an IWRM plan to turn words into action is pending. These milestones on the path to better water management were achieved in part as a result of sustained effort by GWP Togo.

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia share the Sava River Basin. As the after effects of the devastating war in the region have subsided, these countries have started to cooperate on environmental issues.

National IWRM Status Reports

 

IWRM

Global Water Partnership created a series of publications on IWRM providing technical leadership on water resources management. Material is available for consultation online here.  

 

Water Dialogue
Read what is happening in Water Management in Southern Africa in our “Water Dialogue” – A forum for Partnership Action in Water Management in Southern Africa. Access the publsications below:

-2013 edition here.

2014 edition articles below:

- Editorial
-Financing Water Resource Management in SADC

-Local Indigenous Knowledge Practices and Systems (LIKPS)

-GWP Wacdep partners with NAP

-Developing the NCCRS for Zimbabwe

-Beyond MDGs

-Exploring the Water, Energy and Food Nexus

-Promoting Water and Food Security through CPWF

-Building resilience in the Limpopo

-Global Water and Gender Conference

-Balancing Water Usese and SNRM in the Orange Senqu River Basin

-15th WaterNet/GWPSA Symposium

-GWP Engine Page

 

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