Papers WIS 6
Accessible now: 43 papers submitted at the Sixth Water Information Summit at IRC in September 2003.
Aquastat - Getting to grip with water information for agriculture
To support decision-making for improved access and sustainable use of water resources the Water Resources, Development and Management Service of the UN's Food and agriculture Organization (FAO) initiated in 1993 "Aquastat", the organisation's information system on water and agriculture.
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Arsenic information centre - an approach for raising awareness to grassroot communities of Nepal (Arinita Maskey and Roshan Raj Shrestha)
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Asian Development Bank (ADB) Water Awareness Program (WAP) (Paul Fisher)
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Building NGOS/CBOS’ capacity through information (Caroline Batanda)
Uganda Water and Sanitation NGO Network (UWASNET) is an umbrella organization of over 120 NGOs and CBOs in the water and sanitation sector in Uganda. UWASNET has information as one of the ways of building capacity of member organizations.
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Building partnerships: a strategy for bridging the water resources information and knowledge divide in the Caribbean (Herold Gopaul)
Effective integrated water resources management needs a sound information base. The inadequacy of the information and data on water resources, and on water demand and supply is a clear indication of weaknesses in data gathering and information generation in the Caribbean. This paper presents a number of initiatives that are currently underway in the Caribbean with regards to Partnership Building in the water sector.
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Can ICT effectively bridge the information and knowledge gap across geographical and social boundaries (Francois Odendaal and Rodger Abels)
The coastal areas flanked by the Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem (BCLME) along the west side of Southern Africa are in a rapid state of transition. Information sharing, or the lack there-of, has time and again been identified as the single major obstacle to sustainable development in the region. Thus a webbased Distance Learning and Information Sharing Tool (DLIST), accessible at www.dlist.orgwas developed with funding from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and assistance from the World Bank and IW:Learn.
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Climate and water data transfers via Internet: from vision to action (Luc Vescovi, Lam Khanh Hung and Richard Laurence)
In the current technological world, one can already envisage Internet users accessing directly, by means of a friendly GIS-web based interface, metadata describing the available climate or hydrometric data, identifying what they wish to obtain and downloading these data in the most suitable formats (numeric data, analyzed maps, etc.) without needing to consider either where the information lies or the specific formats used by the data providers.
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Closing the knowledge gap in support of the MDGs (Jan Teun Visscher)
The NRC, a respected Dutch newspaper gave the following information on August 2, 2003. Out of 10 million children below five that die each year on water borne and other related diseases, the death of 6 million could have been prevented if available and known prevention and treatment methods would have reached them. This includes some 1.5 million that could have been saved by Oral Rehydration Therapy and 1.2 million if they would have received breastfeeding.
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EauDoc: your international memory for water (Catherine Juery)
With more than 180,000 references, this department is one of the best specialized documentation centres over the world. Three hundred and eighty specialised international periodicals and 1,500 books are indexed each year, i.e. about 5,000 new references per year (daily updated).
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Experiences with knowledge mobilization: the value of local learning and adaptation (Edgar Quiroga Rubiano and Alberto Rodríguez)
The Millennium Development Goals (MDG) established a crucial challenge to the water and sanitation sector with the proposal to halve the number of people without access to a safe water and sanitation supply system by 2015. However, this challenge becomes even more complex if as well as raising coverage rates, the systems must give an adequate service and be sustained by their users with a minimum of external support.
This document describes experiences and lessons learned by the Cinara Institute at the Universidad del Valle in Cali, Colombia, which have been generated from 20 years of systematic work with communities in several countries in the Andean Region and Central America.
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