ONLINE WATER RESOURCES AT YOUR FINGERTIPS WaterWiki connects Early Journal Content free access Articles published prior to 1923 in the United States and prior to 1870 elsewhere are now freely available to anyone, anywhere in the world. This ‘Early Journal Content’ includes discourse and scholarship in the arts and humanities, economics and politics, and in mathematics and other sciences. The archives include nearly 500,000 articles from over 200 journals, representing six percent of the content on JSTOR. http://www.jstor.org Why the Blue Nile carries brown waters The Nile is vitally important to the lives of millions of people. However, its river banks are suffering from massive soil erosion because of rapidly growing populations and the increased use of land for agricultural purposes. The loss of soil comes at a great cost to Ethiopian farmers, while the accumulation of soil in water reservoirs and irrigation canals is a nuisance for farmers downstream in Sudan. NWO-WOTRO interviewed PhD Students Hermen Smit and Yasir Salih of UNESCO-IHE whose research, which is part of the Blue Nile research project, explores potential solutions to problems associated with soil erosion. Salih examines soil particles from reservoirs in Sudan, allowing him to identify the hotspots of soil erosion upstream. Smit tries to find out why farmers continue using certain farming practices and why people respond differently to the problems. You can read the full interview and watch the video on www.researchforglobaldevelopment.nl. WaterWiki aims at connecting Water professionals to knowledge and experience based on work in the context of the United Nations; providing an on-line collaboration platform for Water Sector Practitioners worldwide to find and share their experience and lessons learned; and improving coordination and inter-agency cooperation in the water sector. Due to the nature of the initiators and partners of WaterWiki, there is an emphasis on UN-related info and knowledge. But by no means do we want to be limiting or exclusive in any way. All to the contrary: Whatever knowledge and experience in the area of development and water, sanitation, water resources management, etc. that users find useful can - and should - be shared here! A ‘Wiki’ is different from other websites. Every single page can be edited, or new ones created instantly, by you - given you are logged in. Responsibility for the posted content lies with each individual contributor. A Wiki is particularly suited to collaboration among peers in networks and communities of practice. Think of it as a large black board, where all users are given chalk and sponges to start writing up, or edit existing text. Wikipedia, the famous online collaborative encyclopedia with the humble vision “to capture the world’s knowledge” is perhaps the best known Wiki-project; ten thousands of users are constantly and jointly working on millions of articles/pages/entries. http://sdwebx.worldbank.org/climateportal/ Sanitation Soundbites Climate Change Portal In every issue of UPDATE Magazine, we would like to share relevant online resources with you for use by water professionals and others interested in water-related teaching and reference materials and scientific research findings, sharing the best (and worst) practices from the field. Send an email to update@unesco-ihe.org if you wish to share websites, blogs, twitter feeds, networks or communities with our readers. 28 The World Bank Climate Change Portal is intended to provide quick and readily accessible climate and climate-related data to policy makers and development practitioners. The site also includes a mapping visualization tool (webGIS) that displays key climate variables and climate-related data. Just select your project location within the map to get climate information on your site. Select any other tabs to view information on climate related data or to access the Screening Tool ADAPT. If you want to visualize key variables click on the GIS Maps from the left navigation menu. If you want to visualize data from a particular region (i.e Africa), click on Regional Maps on the top menu. The Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) provides many resources for the media. This includes a nice set of radio broadcasts whereby issues on water, sanitation and hygiene are being discussed by local stakeholders. The various audio soundbite recordings are in the original language of the country. Listen for instance to a radio discussion in Amharic on the problems and solutions of using water with high fluoride content, or tune in to the radio drama in Nepali ‘God is Not Angry’ from the Nepalese WASH Coalition. It explains that diarrhoea is a common disease related to poor sanitation, lack of hygiene and unsafe water. It is not a curse of God. www.wsscc.org/resources/audio
COURSE INFORMATION | 2012| 2013 Innovative learning at the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education equips professionals with the research, managerial and technical skills needed to deal with challenges in the fields of water, the environment and infrastructure in their countries. For the latest information on the above courses, including content, dates, duration and tuition fees, please see our website: www.unesco-ihe.org/education. MSc PROGRAMMES MSc PROGRAMME IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE Environmental Planning and Management Environmental Science and Technology Environmental Technology and Engineering Environmental Technology for Sustainable Development Limnology and Wetland Ecosystems Water Quality Management MSc PROGRAMME IN MUNICIPAL WATER AND INFRASTRUCTURE Sanitary Engineering Urban Water Engineering and Management Water Supply Engineering MSc PROGRAMME IN WATER MANAGEMENT Water Conflict Management Water Resources Management Water Services Management Water Quality Management MSc PROGRAMME IN WATER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING Agricultural Water Management for Arid and Semi-Arid Climates Agricultural Water Management for Enhanced Land and Water Productivity Ecohydrology Flood Risk Management Hydraulic Engineering and River Basin Development Hydraulic Engineering - Coastal Engineering and Port Development Hydraulic Engineering - Land and Water Development Integrated Lowland Development and Management Planning Db Delft-based MSc specialisation J Joint programme Jdd Joint double degree programme Jem Joint Erasmus Mundus programme ONLINE COURSES 2012-2013 Service Oriented Management of Irrigation Systems Biological Wastewater Treatment Ecological Sanitation Flood Modelling for Management Integrated Coastal Zone Management Integrated River Basin Management Policy and Management in Developing Countries Sanitation-related Urban Groundwater Pollution Water Quality Assessment Wetland Management Water and Environmental Law and Policy Modelling Urban Drainage * Cleaner Production and the Water Cycle Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment Industrial Effluents * IWRM as a Tool for Adaption to Climate Change Modelling Sanitation Systems Public and Private Partnerships Solid Waste Management Urban Drainage and Sewerage * Water Transport and Distribution Decision Support Systems in River Basin Management Constructed Wetlands (in Spanish) * Online course NOT eligible for NFP fellowships www.unesco-ihe.org/education Start date 15/Jan/12 01/Mar/12 01/Mar/12 01/Mar/12 01/Mar/12 01/Mar/12 01/Mar/12 01/Mar/12 01/Mar/12 01/Apr/12 02/Jul/12 01/Sep/12 01/Sep/12 01/Sep/12 Db Db Jem Jdd J Db Db | Jdd Jdd Db | Jdd Db Db Db Db Jdd Jdd Jem Jem Db Db | J Db Hydroinformatics-Modelling and Information Systems for Water Management Db | J | Jdd Hydrology and Water Resources Db | J Jdd SHORT COURSES 2012 Coastal Systems Coastal and Port Structures I Conventional Surface Water Treatment Negotiation and Mediation for Water Conflict Management I Water Quality Assessment Lake Ecology ** Coastal and Port Structures II Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment Data Driven Modelling and Real Time Control of Water Systems * Environmental Engineering Environmental Policy Making Groundwater Resources and Treatment Negotiation and Mediation for Water Conflict Management II Stream and River Ecology ** Advanced Water Treatment Technology Environmental Monitoring and Modelling Environmental Planning and Implementation Financial Management of Water Organisations Groundwater Exploration and Monitoring Hydrological Data Collection and Processing Integrated Asset Management Systems Nanotechnology for Water and Wastewater Treatment Resource Oriented Sanitation River Basin Modelling Service Oriented Management of Irrigation Systems Water Resources Planning Tropical Wetlands for Water Quality ** Cleaner Production and the Water Cycle Integrated Coastal Zone Management International Port Seminar Introduction to River Flood Modelling Modelling Wastewater Treatment Processes and Plants Tracer Hydrology and Flow System Analysis Urban Flood Management and Disaster Risk Mitigation Water and Environmental Law Water Transport and Distribution I Fisheries and Aquaculture ** Environment and Global Change: Uncertainty and Risk Assessment Applied Groundwater Modelling Aquatic Ecosystems: Processes and Applications Environmental System Modelling Flood Risk Management Industrial Effluents Treatment and Residuals Management Managing Water Organizations Urban Water Systems 01/Mar/12 Water Treatment Processes and Plants Decentralised Water Supply and Sanitation IWRM as Tool for Adaptation to Climate Change Modelling Urban Drainage and Sewerage Public/Private Partnerships in the Water Sector River Restoration and Rehabilitation * Solid Waste Management 01/Sep/12 Water Transport and Distribution II 01/Sep/12 Watershed and River Basin Management 01/Sep/12 01/Sep/12 01/Sep/12 01/Sep/12 15/Sep/12 01/Oct/12 Remediation and Handling of Contaminated Sediments * Small Hydropower Development * Morphological Modeling Using Delft3D * New Data Sources to Support Flood Modelling * Start date 16/Jan/12 13/Feb/12 13/Feb/12 13/Feb/12 13/Feb/12 20/Feb/12 05/Mar/12 05/Mar/12 05/Mar/12 05/Mar/12 05/Mar/12 05/Mar/12 05/Mar/12 12/Mar/12 02/Apr/12 02/Apr/12 02/Apr/12 02/Apr/12 02/Apr/12 02/Apr/12 02/Apr/12 02/Apr/12 02/Apr/12 02/Apr/12 02/Apr/12 02/Apr/12 09/Apr/12 23/Apr/12 23/Apr/12 23/Apr/12 23/Apr/12 23/Apr/12 23/Apr/12 23/Apr/12 23/Apr/12 23/Apr/12 30/Apr/12 01/May/12 11/Jun/12 11/Jun/12 11/Jun/12 11/Jun/12 11/Jun/12 11/Jun/12 11/Jun/12 11/Jun/12 02/Jul/12 02/Jul/12 02/Jul/12 02/Jul/12 02/Jul/12 02/Jul/12 02/Jul/12 02/Jul/12 03/Sep/12 10/Sep/12 Spate Irrigation and Water Mngmnt under Drought and Water Scarcity 10/Sep/12 GIS Modelling: SWAT 17/Sep/12 17/Sep/12 17/Sep/12 * Short course NOT eligible for NFP fellowships ** Short course held at Egerton University in Kenya, and NOT eligible for NFP fellowships 29
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