This Special Issue of Water International articulates the opportunities and challenges surrounding the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) through multiple disciplinary lenses: its possibilities as a basis for a new era of cooperation in the Eastern Nile basin; its regional and global implications; its benefits

Introduction The 7th meeting of the OECD Water Governance Initiative (WGI) was hosted by the Dutch Government in The Hague, on 23 and 24 June 2016. Several WGI partners were in attendance. AIDA was represented by this writer. A few other AIDA members were also in

The Conference “Water in Conflicts” will be organized by the Geneva University Platform for International Water Law at Geneva, Switzerland on 14 June, 2016. It will examine the results of the Geneva Water Hub Roundtable on the “Protection of Water During and After Armed Conflicts.”

L’eau dans les pays en développement (Water in developing countries) is the result of over 20 years of research on Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in Europe and in developing countries. Its aim is to determine whether this approach, which is based on the participation of

“Le fleuve Indus et ses usages : l’arbitrage relatif aux eaux du fleuve Kishenganga” (The Indus River and its utilizations: the arbitration case relating to the waters of the Kishenganga river), by AIDA member Mara Tignino, in Annuaire français de droit international, vol. 60, 2014,

IUCN’ West and Central Africa Programme (PACO) and the Institut de la Francophonie pour le développement durable (IFDD) of the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF), in collaboration with the Government of the Kingdom of Morocco, will organize the 2nd edition of the International Symposium

The Water and Society Conference will be organized  by the Wessex Institute of Southhampton, UK, at Seville, Spain, on 5-7 June, 2017. It follows the success of previous meetings, which were held in 2011, 2013 and 2015, respectively. The Conference aims at encouraging interdisciplinary communication

The Mexican Government, through the National Water Commission (Conagua), will host the 10th World General Assembly of the International Network of Basin Organizations (INBO), at Merida, Yucatan, on 1-4 June, 2016. The meeting will focus on major strategic issues underlying the implementation of climate change

The IWRA XVIth World Water Congress has been officially launched!!! Please see: http://www.worldwatercongress.com/. AIDA looks forward to welcoming you to Cancun, Mexico, May 29 – June 2, 2017. Additionally, we encourage you to review the thematic structure of the Congress, which is encompassed

The 43rd Congress of the IAH, to be held at Montpellier, France, on 25-29 September, 2016, will devote its Session 7.05 to the topic “The Challenges for Transboundary aquifer management”. In 2016, the UN General Assembly is due to decide the fate of the UN International