The April issue of the Newsletter of the UNESCO IHP-HELP Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science (Dundee, Scotland) is available online at http://www.dundee-reunited.com/document.doc?id=449

Institutional update  16th UN-Water Meeting (Zaragoza, Spain) UN-Water held its 16th meeting on 8-9 February 2012 in Zaragoza, Spain. We are grateful to UNW-DPAC for hosting this meeting and for ensuring the efficiency of all logistics. The final draft meeting report has been circulated to the participants

UN-Water Newsletter No. 12 is now available online at  http://www.unwater.org/newsletter12.html.

Towards the joint management of transboundary aquifers, which was co-authored by Hubert Machard de Gramont and Didier Pennequin (BRGM), Coralie Noel (International Office for Water), Jean-Louis Oliver and Martina Rama (Académie de l’eau)  and AIDA member Raya Marina Stephan, (UNESCO-IHP) and

Le droit international de l'eau douce au Moyen-Orient: Entre souveraineté et coopération, by AIDA member Rana Kharouf Gaudig, Bruylant, Belgium, 2012, offers an in-depth analysis of the international legal framework of water resources management in the Middle East and highlights its flaws. The book also

The OECD Working Paper “Water Governance in Latin America and the Caribbean : a Multi-level Approach” is available online at http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/43/15/50064981.pdf. It will be converted into an OECD publication (in Spanish) by the Summer 2012.

Introduction AIDA was officially represented at the 6th World Water Forum by Executive Council chairman Mr. Stefano Burchi, and by Honorary Chairman Mr. Dominique Alhéritière. Mr. Alhéritière participated at no cost to AIDA (except for the Forum registration fee). A considerable number of AIDA members were