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Villa La Colombella, Perugia, Italy © UNESCO - M. Ravassard

WWAP hosted Integration Meeting on the Third UN World Water Development Report

During the last week of April, over 80 experts from 26 countries met to discuss the state of the world’s freshwater resources at the new WWAP headquarters in the Villa La Colombella in Perugia, Italy. An important step in the development of the WWDR-3, “Water in a Changing World”, the seven-day meeting brought experts from around the world to discuss draft final chapters and a set of messages for the world’s decision and policy makers responsible for governing water resources. Along with the writers, contributors, chapter coordinators, and members of UN-Water, WWAP was pleased to welcome the members of the Technical Advisory Group for the WWDR-3 to share their inputs and comments on the draft text, as well as the important contributions of expert groups.

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First Directors’ Meeting of the three UN-Water Programs

On April 7^th, WWAP hosted the first meeting of the directors of three UN-Water Programs, attended by Mr Reza Ardakanian from the UN-Water Decade Programme for Capacity Development (UNW-DPC), Mr Carlos Fernández-Jáuregui from the UN Office to Support the International Decade for Action “Water for Life” 2005-2015 (UNO-IDfA) and Mr Olcay Ünver from WWAP.

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