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16^th Session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development: WWAP to host sessions on ‘Monitoring Global Freshwater Resources’ and ‘Emerging trends in the WWDR-3’

The sixteenth session of the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD-16), located at the United Nations headquarters in New York, began on Monday, May 5^th and will last until Friday, May 16^th, 2008. During the first week of activities, delegates began considering the CSD’s thematic cluster for 2008/2009 - agriculture, rural development, land, drought, desertification and Africa.

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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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