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World Water Day is March 22

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

 If you weren’t aware, it is indeed World Water Day tomorrow.  (Thanks, Ellie…www.crystalinks.com).

 Links - to learn more: http://www.worldwatercouncil.org/index.php?id=92&L=0 

 Link to information about the World Water Forum: http://www.worldwatercouncil.org/index.php?id=6.  From their website, "

The Council’s World Water Forum, organized every three years in close collaboration with the authorities of the hosting country, is the largest international event in the field of water. It primarily serves four main purposes:

• To raise the importance of water on the political agenda
• To support the deepening of discussions towards the solution of international water issues in the 21st century
• To formulate concrete proposals and bring their importance to the world’s attention
• To generate political commitment

Over the years, the Forum has led the movement from the World Water Vision, a unique prospective exercise on the future state of global water resources whose results were presented at the 2nd Forum, to the establishment of concrete actions and commitments derived from the 3rd Forum.  With the 4th World Water Forum, on the path to the achievement of the water-related Millennium Development Goals, whose deadline was set as 2015, the Council will look to establish mechanisms of cooperation and coordination to transform a global vision into concrete actions that integrate local knowledge."

The Water Monitoring Alliance is another organization to check out - http://www.watermonitoringalliance.net/. From their website, "

The Water Monitoring Alliance is made up of organisations involved in the collection, analysis, reporting and dissemination of information on water in all its uses. Its objectives are to enhance a greater exchange and sharing of information amongst the organisations and programmes involved in the collection and dissemination of water data and to provide a better access to the information for the decision makers, the media and the public at large. The Alliance is a cooperative partnership among organisations working at the international, regional, national and local levels.  

The Water Monitoring Alliance is currently under development."

 

 

 

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