3rd Africa Water Week, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 22-26 November 2010

Organised by: African Ministers’ Council on Water (AMCOW)

Theme: Africa’s Water and Sanitation Challenges and Opportunities to implement the Africa Water Vision and the MDGs.

Registration fee: € 100

To contact the organisers and for more information go to the AMCOW web site

Water and Health: Where Science Meets Policy, Chapel Hill, NC, USA, 23-26 October 2010

Organised by: Water Institute and Institute for the Environment at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

This conference will bring together individuals and experts from academia, industry, NGOs, government and foundations to provide an inter-disciplinary perspective spanning science, policy, practice, financing and economics on drinking water sanitation, hygiene and water resources with a strong public health emphasis. The conference will deal with critical concerns relevant to both the developing and developed worlds.

The UN-Water Global Annual Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking-Water (GLAAS) will be presented at the conference. “This will be the first public event at which such discussion is encouraged and organized and provides a means to both present the report to an expert audience and to secure feedback and comment on it.”

Keynote Speakers

• John Borrazzo, Chief, Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Division, Bureau for Global Health U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
• Clarissa Brocklehurst, Chief of Water and Environmental Sanitation, UNICEF
• Jeni Colbourne, Chief Drinking Water Inspector, UK Drinking Water Inspectorate
• Peter Kolsky, Senior Water and Sanitation Specialist, World Bank
• Upmanu Lall, Director, Columbia Water Center; Alan and Carol Silberstein Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering and Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at Columbia University

Besides the main conference on 25-26 October, there will be weekend networking and learning sessions on 23-23 October.

Main Conference Themes:

• What works in water and health?
• Financing for water and development
• New challenges and climate change
• Innovations and emerging trends
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Health systems and WaSH
• Impact and sustainability
• Frontiers of regulation
• Small systems
• Beaches and coastal areas
• Household water treatment and hygiene behaviors
• Water scarcity, reuse

Networking Weekend Events:

• Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage – Convening of the International Network
• Health Impact Assessment – Principles and Practice
• WaSH and Health Systems
• Water Quality and Health
• Water Safety Plans – Identifying Future Research Priorities
• Hygienic Risks of Sanitation Systems
• Microfinancing for Water, Sanitation, Hygiene & Environmental Projects
• Molecular Methods for Characterizing and Measuring Recreational Water Quality
• Meeting of the Universities Consortium for Global Water, Sanitation and Hygiene

Conference web site:  www.ie.unc.edu/content/news_events/symposia/2010/index.cfm

2nd WaterLoss Asia 2010, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 13-15 October 2010

Organised by: Malaysian Water Association and PROTEMP Group

WaterLoss Asia is a specialized event on Non-Revenue Water. It comprises of a conference, workshop & an exhibition showcasing the latest technologies to manage water losses effectively. The first WaterLoss Asia was held in 2008 with over 400 participants.

Conference web site: www.waterlossasia.com

1st Workshop on Terra Preta Sanitation, Groß Ippener (near Bremen), Germany, 27-30 September 2010

Ecosan researchers have found inspiration in the Pre-Columbian black soil (Terra Preta) of the Amazon Basin for “the re-creation of the most successful sanitation system ever”. They will share their enthusiasm at this 3-day Workshop organised by the Institute of Wastewater Management and Water Protection, of the Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH).

Read more about Terra Preta sanitation

Download the Workshop brochure

Water and Poverty Alleviation: a Dialogue for Action, Durban, South Africa, 11-13 October 2010

This dialogue will present the experiences of the Danida supported DWA-COGTA-SALGA Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) programme. The South African Department of Water Affairs and Forestry (DWAF), with the assistance of the Royal Danish Government (Danida), initiated the programme in 2000 to pilot IWRM approaches in three water management areas of South Africa. Almost eighty projects have been implemented. In the majority of cases projects have been identified, designed and implemented by the communities themselves as contracting parties.

Objectives:

• To showcase how communities can be empowered to engage in service delivery to improve livelihoods and
• community wellbeing
• To develop a policy dialogue around these issues in line with current government policies and thinking on
• poverty alleviation and rural development with water as the catalyst
• Lateral thinking, especially in relation to cooperative governance
• Procurement issues, contracting of communities, technical call down facility

Download the full announcement and registration form from www.iwrm.co.za

Water Crisis and Choices: ADB and Partners Conference 2010, Manila, Philippines, 11-15 October 2010

Organised by: Asian Development Bank (ADB)

This conference brings together over 40 ADB partner organisations, 80 panellists and 500 water decision makers to raise awareness of water issues and solutions in Asia and Pacific region. ADB will present its Water Operational Framework 2011-2020.

Conference themes:

Cities and Water: Solutions for Efficiency

• From Loss to Profit: Structural Transformation via Reduced NRW
• Cleaning Utility Balance Sheets: Attracting Investments
• Energy in Water: The Case for a Smaller Footprint

Water in Food: Productivity Gains

• Less Water, More Food: Solutions for Enhanced Productivity
• Technologies in Irrigated Agriculture: Costs and Benefits
• Small-Scale Irrigation: Is this the Future?

Clean Water: A Question of Quality

• Legislating Clean Water: Getting the Laws to Work Better
• Water Reuse: Scale, Technology, and Prospects
• Clean Up Costs: Expanding Investments

Basin Level Management: A Scorecard for Asia

• Basin Planning and Management: An Asian Scorecard
• Adapting to Climate Change: Risks and Resilience
• Accessing Available Freshwater: Expanded Capture and Storage

Conference web site: www.adb.org/waterconference2010/

IWRM Karlsruhe 2010, Germany, 24-25 November 2010

Organised by: Karlsruher Messe- und Kongress-GmbH and the Fraunhofer IOSB

Sponsored by: Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (Germany)

At the conference, there will be 60 presentations from IWRM specialists from a total of 18 different countries, including Australia, Brazil, Chile, China, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, India, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, the Netherlands, Palestine, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom and Viet Nam.

Topics:

Management of Rainfall Retention and Storage

• Retention and Artificial Recharge
• Erosion, Irrigation and Desertification

Waste Water Management in Agriculture

• Hygienisation Management and Disinfection Processes, Sanitation
• Waste Water Reuse in Agriculture

Materials Flow and Ingredients Flow Management

• Nutrient Cycles
• Contaminant Remediation and Immobilization
• Management and Water Treatment Processes
• Water Quality Management
• Sediment Transport / Morphology

Water Resources Management (incl. Urban Areas)

• Utilization and Protection of Water Resources
• The Economic Triangle: Water, Energy, Food
• Water Resource Modeling
• Water Policies & Decision Support, Capacity Building
• Water Supply & Distribution Management

Water Management under Extreme Conditions

• Flood Water Management and Run-off Modeling
• Climate Change

Conference web site: www.iwrm-karlsruhe.com

Arab Water Week, Amman, Jordan, 5-9 December 2010

Organised by: Arab Countries Water Utilities Association (ACWUA) and Lawrence & Husseini Consult

ACWUA expect more than 300 participants and delegations to attend the first Arab Water Week in Amman.

Focus: Cost Recovery at water and wastewater utilities: achievements, challenges and solutions

Main events:

• ACWUA’s 1st International Conference (5-6 Dec)
• The 1st Arab Water Trade Fair (5-7 Dec 2010)
• Top Management 2 Days Training (8-9 Dec)

Conference key themes:

• Cost recovery and utilities strategic planning
• Best practices in cost recovery at utilities: an option or a must?
• Cost recovery and tariff restructuring: any water left for the poor?
• Sustainable utility management: cost recovery implementation and obstacles.

Conference web site: www.arabwaterweek.org

International Code Council World Toilet Summit, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 30 October – 3 November 2010

The 10th World Toilet Summit (WTS) will focus on the innovative designs, trends, and sustainable, market-based sanitation solutions and the huge profits businesses can realize while at the same time helping to eradicate the global sanitation crisis.

Held for the first time outside Asia, the WTS  is making its American debut in conjunction with the American Society of Plumbing Engineers (ASPE) Convention and Engineered Plumbing Exposition.

Organised by: World Toilet Organization and International Code Council

Conference tracks:

• Innovations in Global Toilet Design & Applications
• Bottom of the Pyramid and Micro Financing Market
• Green Plumbing Applications
• Advocacy & Potty Parity
• Code Standards and Policies
• Cleaning and Personal Care Services & Supplies Market

For more information go the WTS web site.

The right to water and water rights in a changing world, Delft, The Netherlands, 22 September 2010

Organised by: University for Peace, UNESCO-IHE, The Netherlands National IHP Committee, CPWC, PCCP, Netherlands National Commission for UNESCO

Colloquium in the framework of 30 years University for Peace. In the face of global changes, what role can law play in safeguarding basic needs and rights, including that of water? Can law be more effectively mobilized to better protect vulnerable communities against droughts, floods and other climate related disasters? In so doing, to what extend can it contribute to world peace? As laws tend to be rigid, how can they play a more progressive role in a rapidly changing world? Currently water management is stepping away from the idea of stationarity – but what about legal issues? Are they set in stone?

Location: UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Delft, the Netherlands

More information and registration form