EpiServer is set up with some forms that communicate directly with the Partners Database and with a service that queries information back from the database. This data is used to inform us of activity in the network, provide help and asssistance (see collecting data using forms) and to show on the website our reach using maps.
‘Closing the Knowledge Gap: Integrated Water Resources Management for Sustainable Agriculture’ was the theme of an international seminar in Johannesburg, South Africa, November 22-26, 2010, which sought to discuss strategies for developing comprehensive information and knowledge support systems in integrated water management for productive agriculture in Africa, the Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states.
As capacity-building support to its Partner organisations, the Global Water Partnership and the University of Dundee, will offer scholarships for 30 participants to undertake a module in International Water Law, in Dundee, August 1-19, 2011. Applications will be accepted from
4 March to 30 April 2011.
The Global Water Partnership Executive Secretary Dr Ania Grobicki and the GWP Central and Eastern Europe Chair Dr. Liviu Nicolae Popescu will participate in the European event “Aquawareness Policy Forum” on World Water Day 22 March in Brussels, Belgium.
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.
24 November 2008, Tirana, Albania
The Consultation Meeting on Integrated Management of the extended Drin River Basin was organised in Tirana, Albania, 24 November 2008 by the Albanian Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Water Administration, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and the Global Water Partnership Mediterranean (GWP-Med), with the financial support of the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency.
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.
The Mediterranean basin ranks among the first in the list of the world top tourist destinations. Tourism activity registers annually around 250 million visitors and the number of domestic and international tourists should reach 637 million by 2025. It is estimated that every tourist consumes between 300 and 850 liters of water per day.