Press release 14 March 2012, Marseille - This publication was launched at the 6thWorld Water Forum in Marseille by the International Network of Basin Organizations (INBO), the Global Water Partnership (GWP), UNECE, UNESCO, GEF, EVREN and AFD who worked together to produce it.
Interview with Mr. Tomás Fernández and Mrs. Eda Soto at Inter-Institutional Commission of the Hydrographic Basin of the Panama Channel (CICH)
Interview with Prof. M S Rathore, Director of the Centre for Environment and Development Study
The Memorandum of Understanding was signed between GWP China and WWF China for a five-year cooperation framework on January 23, 2011, Beijing.
With the support of the Ministry of Water Resources and the Ministry of the Environmental Protection, the High-Level Round Table Meeting was jointly organized by GWP China and the Swiss Development Cooperation Agency (SDC) in Beijing, on April 8, 2010. The co-sponsors include The Nature Conservancy, UNESCO Office Beijing, UNICEF Office for China, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research (IWHR) and Chinese National Committee on Large Dams.
For solving the problem of water supply for the water saving ecological campus, GWP China Shaanxi, jointly with Shaanxi Provincial Department of Water Resources, Shaanxi Provincial Department of Education and Shaanxi Ecological Campus Innovation Programme Office, organized the Conference on Water-Saving Ecological Campus Construction on June 13th, 2010 in Xi’an, Shaanxi Province.
GWP China Shaanxi, jointly with Drinking Water Safety Center of MWR, Shaanxi CHES, WWF Beijing Office, and with support of Shaanxi People’s Congress General Office, Shaanxi Provincial Water Resources Department, Hanzhong City Government, held “Post-quake Water Facilities Reconstruction Session” on November 11 to 13, 2009 in Hanzhong City, Shaanxi Province.
This Partnership is very important and its implementation should contribute to support the Gambia in the sustainable management of its water resources ... The government and my department will provide all necessary support to do so.