Call for Abstracts and Seminar Proposals for September 2010 World Water Week The 2010 World Water Week in Stockholm, September 5-11, is now making its 1st Announcement, calling for workshop abstracts and proposals from organisations to convene a seminar or side event in 2010. The Announcement provides information on the theme, structure, and special focus on Water Quality. It also gives guidelines on how to convene a seminar or side event or submit an abstract for presentation during the eight workshops.
http://www.siwi.org/documents/Resources/Events/1st_Announcement_2010.pdf

World Water Week 2009 Overarching Conclusions
The 2009 World Water Week Overarching Conclusions presents new thinking and insights on key issues advanced during the week.
It includes analysis by leading experts in the field in five thematic streams: Managing Water Across Borders; Coping with Climate Change; Balancing Competing Demands; Responding to Socioeconomic and Demographic Changes and Ensuring Human and Environmental Health.
http://www.worldwaterweek.org/sa/node.asp?node=471

Stockholm Water Front Searches Planetary Boundaries
The latest issue of Stockholm Water Front investigates our planet limits: How much water can be consumed before nature hits the tipping point and changes irreversibly? Check out the expanded edition to learn why innovation is turning its eye to water , how rain can power a cleaner tomorrow and what the Kalahari Bushman can teach a world facing an emerging “ permanent drought ”. Read the entire issue, here .
http://www.siwi.org/sa/node.asp?node=719
http://www.siwi.org/documents/Resources/Water_Front/WF_3-4_2009.pdf

Bridging the Water and Climate Agenda at COP-15
SIWI is taking part in a number of activities at COP-15. On Wednesday December 16, SIWI and the Co-operative Programme on Water and Climate, World Water Council (WWC), International Water Association (IWA), International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) will hold on “ Water and Climate – From Dialogue to Action ” to discuss the principles, including follow-up actions on climate information, planning, building with nature and capacity development. Project Director, Karin
Lexén, was also feature speaker at the sessions, COP-15 and Beyond: Bridging the Water and Climate Change Agenda and Adaptive management – Merging top-down and bottom-up .
http://www.siwi.org/sa/node.asp?node=719

New Research from SIWI and Swedish Water House
SIWI recently introduced two new reports:
Getting Transboundary Water Right: Theory and Practice for Effective Cooperation Drainage Basin Security – Prospects for Trade-offs and Benefit Sharing in a Globalised World.

Swedish Water House also released three reports: Adapting Water Management to Climate Change Securing Water for Ecosystems and Human Well-being: The Importance of EnvironmentalFlows Corruption Risks in Water Licensing with Case Studies from Chile and Kazakhstan.
http://www.siwi.org/reports

Calling for the Best in the Business
Do you know a company that is managing its water sustainably?
Should they be rewarded for it? If so, nominate them for the Stockholm Industry Water Award today! Deadline for nominations is February 15, 2010. http://www.siwi.org/SIWA/nominate

Advanced Training in IWRM
The International Training Programme in Integrated Water Resource Management offers advanced training on international, national and local IWRM tools and approaches that can be applied in practice. Mid-career professionals are sought from selected countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Middle East/North, Africa, Europe and Central Asia. Full-time interactive training takes place in Sweden from August 23 – September 14, 2010 and in Lao PDR November 22 – December 3, 2010. Deadline for applications is March 15, 2010.
http://www.siwi.org/sa/node.asp?node=758

Pontianak (ANTARA News) - Pemerintah Provinsi Kalimantan Barat akan meminta ketegasan dari negara industri mengenai komitmen kompensasi untuk daerah pemilik hutan pada pertemuan tentang perubahan iklim dan pemanasan global di Los Angeles, Amerika Serikat, minggu depan.

Kepala Badan Lingkungan Hidup Daerah Kalbar Darmawan di Pontianak, Jumat, mengatakan bahwa selama ini sudah banyak skema tentang pemberian kompensasi untuk daerah yang dapat menyerap karbon.

"Ada skema perdagangan karbon, tetapi sampai sekarang teknis pelaksanaannya belum jelas, misal penyaluran dalam bentuk korporat," kata Darmawan.

Gubernur Kalbar Cornelis diundang Gubernur California Arnold Schwarzenegger ke Los Angeles pada 30 September - 2 Oktober 2009 untuk menghadiri kegiatan "Governors Global Climate Summit".

This was the first regional event executed by GWP SEA, in the last 2 years. It is the region’s early attempt to strategically position itself in relation to regional water management issues is the region.

The workshop is aimed as a multistatekeholder platform for countries in SEA to share information and exchange experiences on the technical and administrative, socio-political complexities informing the operation and management of RBOs. Indonesia Water partnership with the cooperation of leading Partners in Department of Public Works of Indonesia and other partners hosted this Regional river basin organization and management event. Indonesia NARBO shared technical information based on their experiences.

E-conference
on
Integrated Land and Water Resources Management in Rural Watersheds

2 November - 4 December 2009
Organized by: FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific

1. Background

Rapid degradation of rural watersheds in the Asia-Pacific has been a major concern of the governments and civil societies in the region. Segmented management of land and water resources is one of the root causes, greatly exacerbated by a “domino effect” from continuous population growth with associated increased food, fuels and water requirements, changing pressures on land from biofuels and increased demands for protein-rich diets, as well as anticipated adverse impacts of climate change in the coming decades. The outcome is land and water scarcity, particularly of better quality land and more accessible and (in the past) naturally renewed water supplies. In response, the immediate need is the wider promotion and uptake of integrated land and water resource management with a focus on rural watersheds to ensure their sustainability while improving local livelihoods. For this purpose, the Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO-RAP), in partnership with concerned development partners, is organizing an E-conference on Integrated Land and Water Resources Management in Rural Watersheds.