BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Memento EPFL//
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Transboundary water resources management in water stressed regions
  
DTSTART:20101206T161500
DTSTAMP:20260924T071705Z
UID:edb9ec03a26cb952fa1b9856fd76fa92cbfe68b1292b9af06152bd29
CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Professor Dinis Juizo\, Eduardo Mondlane University\, Maputo (
 MZ)\nWater resources management in water scarce regions like the Southern 
 Africa Development Community (SADC) is challenging with both large hydro-c
 limatic-induced scarcity and the considerable inter-annual fluctuations. W
 ater must be allocated both in time and space with acceptable criteria and
  the adhesion of stakeholders to the decisions imposed by water sharing ag
 reements. In SADC\, most of the land territory (70%) falls within a design
 ated international river basin area\, creating considerable interdependenc
 es between states. A SADC protocol on shared watercourses has been develop
  over the past 15 years aiming at a better integrated water resources deve
 lopment which will certainly put the regional economy in motion. The imple
 mentation of that protocol has not been and is still not an easy task. \nF
 or Mozambique that shares 9 of the 15 transboundary rivers in the region\,
  considerable areas of research must be covered by a limited capacity both
  in institutional and financial terms. Developing models and tools for dec
 ision making about water allocation that are seen transparent and trustwor
 thy for in modeling of transboundary rivers is an essential element of an 
 agenda to pursue. \nUp till now two major challenges have been identified:
  the lack of reliable hydrological data in large areas of the basins in th
 e region and the poor integration of water quality issues in water agreeme
 nt. Some results have been achieved leading to a key conclusion that trans
 parency\, stakeholder involvement and simple methods can contribute to fas
 t implementation of integrated water resources management in water stresse
 d regions like SADC.
LOCATION:GR A3 30
STATUS:CONFIRMED
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR