water security
Building the Water Agenda: Policy responses to water scarcity and shock
Event Location:London, United KingdomStart Date:09 July 2012End Date:10 July 2012Link:Official WebsiteDescription:How can governments and business best address water risk?
Achieving water security is fast becoming a priority for governments and business, in the context of growing global resource use and climate change-induced water scarcity and shocks. The challenges to addressing the issue of water security across sectors, levels, and borders are many and complex and the risks of failing to tackle them are high.
This conference will bring together policy makers, business leaders and experts to ask how a water policy agenda can be built.Water Resources and Water Security in the Middle East and the Mediterranean Region
Event Location:Amman, JordanStart Date:13 May 2012End Date:17 May 2012Link:Official WebsiteDescription:The General Secretariat of the The Euro-Arab Organization for Environment, Water and Desert Researches are honored to invite you to participate in its annual International Conference on Water, which will be held in the University of Jordan, in cooperation with the European Union Euro-Arab of Geomantic and federal Euro-Mediterranean scientific research and innovation, Karlsruhe Institute of Tehnology (former Karlsruhe University), and the University of Aachen in Germany during the period of 13-17-5 -2012, under the slogan: -
15th International Riversymposium
Event Location:Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaStart Date:08 October 2012End Date:11 October 2012Link:Official WebsiteDescription:The International Riversymposium is the world’s leading river management conference. This year’s event will explore the intricately linked pressures on rivers and waterways as the world’s urban population continues to grow and expand.
UNWC Global Initiative Symposium
Event Location:Dundee, ScotlandStart Date:05 June 2012End Date:08 June 2012Link:Official WebsiteDescription:The IHP-HELP Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science under the auspices of UNESCO, in partnership with theWorldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) will host a Symposium on the United Nations Watercourses Convention, 5-8th June 2012. The primary aim of the symposium will be to bring together a diverse group of experts (academic, civil servants, NGOs, international organisations, etc) from across the world to debate the existing and potential relevance of the 1997 UN Watercourses Convention.
Bangalore World Water Summit
Event Location:Bangalore, IndiaStart Date:01 February 2012End Date:03 February 2012Link:Official WebsiteDescription:Bangalore World Water Summit has been exclusively designed to bring focus, exchange thoughts and ideas and showcase trends and technologies to sustain and improve water resources and their efficient and effective management; thereby finding answers towards solving some of the pressing, Indian, and at large, Global issues, related to Water.
The Summit will witness the coming together of some of the greatest minds in the area of Water, including researchers, technocrats, policy makers, solutions-providers, industry bodies and consultants from across the world at the three day summit.
Water Security, Risk and Society
Event Location:Oxford, UKStart Date:16 April 2012End Date:18 April 2012Link:Official WebsiteDescription:This symposium will convene leading scientists and members of industry and government to advance the water security agenda and build partnerships across theory, policy and practice.