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   - László Hayde elected Vice President of ICID
   - World Water Council Governing Board meeting hosted at UNESCO-IHE; Board Members interviewed

Events

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   - International Symposium: Harmonising Environmental Considerations with Sustainable Development Potential of River Basins
   - ISMAR7 - Seventh International Symposium on Managed Aquifer Recharge
   - Hydrology Conference 2010: The Changing Physical and Social Environment: Hydrologic Impacts and Feedbacks

Featured International Events
   - 20th IAHR International Symposium on Ice
   - NOVATECH 2010: 7th International Conference on Sustainable Techniques and Strategies in Urban Water Management
   - Water 2010: Hydrology, Hydraulics and Water Resources in an Uncertain Environment

Vacancies

   - Water Lecturer

Did you know?

Facts and figures about Sudan

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László Hayde elected Vice President of ICID

The International Executive Council of the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID) elected Dr. László Hayde as Vice President for the period 2009-2012. Hayde will be responsible for maintaining contacts and initiating cooperation between the National Committees of ICID member countries in Europe.

"I am very much honoured to take on this position," Hayde explains. "I certainly believe that the work at ICID complements my work at UNESCO-IHE. Among others ICID puts such high emphasis on the involvement of young professionals in their activities and young water professionals are precisely what UNESCO-IHE produces. Several Masters and PhD students are already involved in our joint projects, such as the World History of Water Management Short Course held at UNESCO-IHE. In this new position I will work on closer cooperation between UNESCO-IHE and ICID. With respect to this I am certainly open to new ideas, initiatives from the academic and management side of UNESCO-IHE to develop activities to the benefit of UNESCO-IHE," Hayde adds.

Keep your eye out for the April/May issue of UPDATE magazine where you can read a longer interview with Dr. László Hayde.

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World Water Council Governing Board meeting hosted at UNESCO-IHE; Board Members interviewed

Interviews with Loïc Fauchon, President of the World Water Council and Jerome Delli Priscoli, Senior Adviser for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Institute for Water Resources and member of the GSI Advisory Council during the visit of the World Water Council Governing Board meeting organised by UNESCO-IHE.

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Events

UNESCO Water Family (*)

International Symposium: Harmonising Environmental Considerations with Sustainable Development Potential of River Basins
24-25 March 2010: Langat Basin, Malaysia

ISMAR7 - Seventh International Symposium on Managed Aquifer Recharge
9-13 October 2010: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Hydrology Conference 2010: The Changing Physical and Social Environment: Hydrologic Impacts and Feedbacks
11-13 October 2010: San Diego, CA, USA

Featured International Events

20th IAHR International Symposium on Ice
14-18 June 2010: Lahti, Finland

NOVATECH 2010: 7th International Conference on Sustainable Techniques and Strategies in Urban Water Management
27 June – 1 July 2010: Lyon, France

Water 2010: Hydrology, Hydraulics and Water Resources in an Uncertain Environment
5-7 July 2010: Québec, Canada

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Vacancies

Water Lecturer

The UNESCO Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science at Dundee University is pleased to announce an opening in our academic team; an exciting new Water Lecturer post which will contribute actively to enhancing the Centre’s reputation, impact and financial sustainability, in line with the Centre’s vision, through first-class research and support for the Water Law, Water Leaders programme. We look for a lawyer who is a team-player, capable of working across disciplines, and keen to complement the Centre’s existing water law expertise in national water law, through expertise in one or several of the following areas of law: water services regulation (public/private partnerships; economic regulation of water services; utilities); trade law (WTO, investment law; international dispute settlement, arbitration), agricultural law; corporate / commercial / administrative law relevant to water law reform; legal frameworks for good governance and stakeholder engagement especially in water services; water rights (water security, the human right to water; ecosystems services).

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Did you know...? Facts and figures about Sudan

• Annual rainfall varies from 25 mm in the Sahara desert, in the north, to over 1,500 mm in the south.
• Sudan is so vast (about 2,000 km from north to south and 1,800 km from east to west) that it lies in multiple climatic zones. In the north, where the Sahara extends into much of the country, the climate is arid, while the south is influenced by a tropical wet-and-dry climate. This variation directly affects rainfall: a rainy season runs from April to October in southern Sudan, but the rainy period gradually diminishes in length towards the north, and rainfall is scarce in the far north.
• In addition to geographic and seasonal variability in rainfall distribution, there are indications of a decreasing trend in the amount of rainfall in the last 30 years, with the dry zone increasingly extending towards the south.
• Almost 80% of the country falls in the basin of the Nile River and its two main tributaries: the White Nile, originating in the equatorial lake region (shared by Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania and Zaire), and the Blue Nile, which rises in the Ethiopian highlands. The two join at Khartoum to form the Nile, which flows northwards through Egypt to the Mediterranean Sea.
• About 67% of the Nile River basin lies within Sudanese territory. Estimates of the availability of water resources in Sudan range from 36 billion m3 to 44 billion m3.
• The irrigated area totals around 0.02 million km2, or a modest 12% of the cultivated land area, but consumes about 20 billion m3 of water – approximately equal to Sudan’s share of the Nile River flow.
• In 2006, the percentage of population with access to safe water supply was 78% in urban areas and 64% in rural ones. The disparity is even greater for access to improved sanitation, which is available to 50% of urban dwellers but only 24% in rural areas.

The section "Did You Know…?" is taken from the 3rd World Water Development Report "Water in a Changing World".

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