Dear Your Excellency M. Salem Ould Merzoug,   I consider it a great honor to meet you as the moderator of this special dialogue at the UN, and to learn from you. You have an amazing record in water management and I wish I could hear more than 6…

 The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and the Second Committee of the General Assembly, in collaboration with FAO, IFAD and WFP, are organizing on 1 November, a special event on food security and nutrition.  …

CEWP will organize a side event at the World Water Week in Stockholm on August 29th in the morning. The side event will provide information about CEWP and participants can learn about how they can be involved and contribute to CEWP.

Invitation The next meeting of the World Liaison Bureau will take place : On TUESDAY 16 OCTOBER 2012 from 17:00 (sharp) to 19:30 at the Istanbul Grand Cevahir Hotel. The agenda of this Bureau meeting will deal with: Preparation of the…

The China Europe Water Platform was launched in March 2012 at the 6th World Water Forum as a new working group of the EU Water Initiative, with Denmark and Portugal co-leading the work.    The specific purpose of the CEWP Work Programme 2012-2015…

Thematic Focus - Water Security   Transboundary water issues have cross-cutting implications for the aims of Rio+20. This side event will focus on the UNWC as a tool to fill in gaps in the institutional framework for sustainable development, and…

The objective of the Conference is to secure renewed political commitment for sustainable development, assess the progress to date and the remaining gaps in the implementation of the outcomes of the major summits on sustainable development, and…

Geneva, 17 March 2012 – The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (UNECE Water Convention), adopted in Helsinki, Finland on 17 March 1992, celebrates…

INBO attended the 6th World Water Forum       At conclusion time... tangible progress for basin management and transboundary cooperation has been made.   Ministerial Declaration  

In total: more than 150 films, from around 50 countries.   The themes: aquatic myths and legends, public bath houses, rites and traditions, protection of wetlands, aquatic ecosystems, right to water and sanitation, floods, dams, pollution, conflict…

The Prepcom conference will be organized by the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan and the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) in cooperation with UN‐Water, UNDP Office in Dushanbe and the South‐South News.   The…

  The Seventh "Environment for Europe" Ministerial Conference is scheduled to take place in Astana (Kazakhstan) from 21 to 23 September 2011. The Conference is being prepared in accordance with the provisions of Reform Plan of the "…

The UNESCO International Hydrological Programme (IHP) together with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH) has initiated a new Project on "Groundwater Governance" financed by the…