From 2002-03-18 to 2002-03-22

Venue: The Breakwater Lodge
Cape Town, South Africa

Summary:
The objective is to present the results of the UNESCO FRIEND (Flow Regimes from International Experimental and Network Data) research programme that has stimulated international cooperation in the field of hydrology. A focus will be bridging the gap between knowledge, research and practical applications.

The Conference themes will cover:
1. Hydrological data - policy, international rivers, databases, real time dissemination
2. Managing hydrological risk - floods, surface and groundwater droughts
3. Water scarcity, over-exploitation and poverty reduction
4 Sustaining water-related ecosystems - definitions, methodology and operation
5. Continental hydrology - regimes, water sharing, teleconnections, snow,ice, international basins.

Conference Proceedings will be published as an IAHS Red Book publication and summaries of poster papers will be available on a CD at the conference. A FRIEND Report, summarising FRIEND activities from 1998-2002 will also be published.

Organizers: UNESCO International Hydrological Programme
National Committee of South Africa
Southern Africa FRIEND
IAHS
WMO
Contact Name: Conference Secretariat
E-mail: FRIEND@iwr.ru.ac.za
URL: http://www.ru.ac.za/institutes/iwr/friend/index.html