International Training Course, ‘Politicas para el uso sostenible del agua y prestacion eficiente de servicios publicos relacionados. Perspectivas desde la CEPAL’(Policies for sustainable water utilization and efficient provision of related public services. ECLAC perspective). The Institute for Economic and Social Planning for Latin America and the

On 11 December the United Nations General Assembly, at its sixty-third session, adopted by consensus the Resolution on the law of transboundary aquifers. The Assembly took note of the draft articles annexed to the resolution, and commended them to the attention of Governments without prejudice

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FThe Foundation Institute Delmiro Gouveia for the Development is promoting the Ist Brazilian Congress of Water Law in the city of Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil, from 20 to 22 November, 2008. For further information and registration: www.direitoce.com.br AIDA will be present via its member Prof. Cid Tomanik

The Symposium was jointly organized by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece) and the UNESCO Chair on Sustainable Management of Water and Conflict Resolution. Its main topic was 'Transboundary Surface Waters and Shared Aquifers'. Specific topics covered monitoring networks, data and information sharing, decision making

This major triennial event organised by the International Water Resources Association (IWRA), the 13th of its kind, was superbly hosted by AGROPOLIS, with the support of the French Government, the Region of Languedoc Roussillon and the City of Montpellier. AIDA was represented by its Chairman,

AIDA was represented by its Chairman, Dominique Alhéritière who chaired Session VI on "Horizontal Issues in Federal and Decentralised Countries". Stefano Burchi, AIDA's Deputy-Chairman and Treasurer was also in attendance and presented a paper on "Water Resource Agreements among States and Provinces of Federal Countries