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With its experience of being a neutral platform for negotiating river basin management plans, GWP Lithuania has been asked to act as a national information center for water resources management.

Agriculture: the major sector of water consumption

Intensive abstraction for domestic, agricultural and industrial purposes has led to depletion of surface and groundwater bodies. Overexploitation of groundwater resources in particular, has led to seawater intrusion in coastal aquifers. Over the last 50 years, water demand for all sectors of activity together has doubled to reach 280 km3/ year in 2007.

The Network Specialist acts as the liaison between the Global Water Partnership (GWP) Secretariat in Stockholm, Sweden and each GWP region for which they are responsible. The Network Specialist therefore provides support in the implementation of the GWP Strategy at the regional and country level.

Global Water Partnership South Asia (GWP SAS) has partners in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

GWP membership is open to all organizations involved in water and water resources management. Currently the GWP-SEA network has over 360 member organizations in the 9 Southeast Asia countries; Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippine, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.

The Global Water Partnership South Asia (GWP SAS) Regional Office is based in Colombo, Sri Lanka and is hosted by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

The Global Water Partnership-Caribbean (GWP-C) Secretariat is responsible for the day-to-day technical, communication, financial and administrative affairs of GWP-C.

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GWP China Yellow River, together with the Yellow River Research Institute, provided technical experts and speakers and organised the workshop, Efficient Use of Water Resources and Ecological Compensation, in September 2010 in Zhengzhou, Henan.