Side events

Water related events organised by other distinguished organisations will be held in the days before or following the World Water Congress. All registered Congress participants are invited to attend these events free of charge, depending on availability. Interested participants are requested to confi rm their participation in advance; an online form will soon be available on the Congress website to do so. The confirmed side events to date are listed below. Additional side events will be announced in due course on the Congress web site.

AQUASTRESS - PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN WATER MANAGEMENT

Organised by: AquaStress consortium represented by Cemagref
Date: 5 September 2008

AquaStress will be an opportunity to provide to the international community feedback about the
achievements of the AquaStress European Integrated project (6th PCRD). The main goal of the project 2005-2009) is to develop stakeholder driven, European scale, comprehensive integrated approaches to the diagnosis, prognosis and mitigation of water stress. This event will present the main results of the 6 Work Blocks(field activities and stakeholder forums; Characterisation of systems and water stress; Water stress mitigation options; Infrastructure to support solutions processes; Testing, Validation and Evaluation; Dissemination and Training) and the 8 test sites (Portugal, Netherlands, Sardinia, Poland, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Tunisia and Morocco).

Aquastress web site: http://www.aquastress.net/

Side event programme: http://wwc2008.msem.univ- montp2.fr/resource/RES749_aquastressevent.pdf

SOCIETY, WATER AND HEALTH IN THE MEDITERRANEAN REGION

Organised by: Mediterranean Agronomic Institute, Montpellier (IAM.M) and University Montpellier 1
Date: 5 September 2008

Population increase and pressure on natural resources has been rising rapidly in the Mediterranean region. Water as a rare resource, is used for agriculture (80% in Mediterranean regions), but also for domestic, tourist and industrial purposes. Current and potential conflicts show the importance of multi-thematic and interinstitutional approaches for:

• Identification of zones and where shortages are critical, and how management policies can solve these problems; and
• Water access rights and how global health policy can regulate diseases linked to water quality

Programme: http://www.iamm.fr/actu/agenda/ressou rces/journe_ses_05092008.pdf

Website : http://www.iamm.fr/

XXI AIC CONGRESS - CLIMATES AND CLIMATE RISQUES IN THE MEDITERRANEAN

Organised by: GESTER. Université Montpellier III et l’Association Internationale de Climatologie
Contact : aic_montpellier2008@yahoo.fr

Date: 9-13 September 2008

Congress topics

• climate variability and climate evolution
• mesure and impacts of climate change
• extreme weather events
• modeling in climatology
• urban climatology, pollution and health
• climate and water resource
• climate and agriculture
• climate and litoral

For more information:

Final programme : http://wwc2008.msem.univ- montp2.fr/resource/RES782.pdf 

GESTER website: http://recherche.univ-montp3.fr/gester
AIC website : http://www.acara.be/AIC/

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