MEDA Region Workshop, Dec 2005 Print

12th-13th December 2005, Beirut, Lebanon.

INWEB's general manager, Prof. J. Ganoulis, will represent INWEB at a workshop on Instruments for Managing Shared Groundwater Resources in the MEDA Region to be held in Beirut from 12-13 December 2005. The workshop is jointly organised by ESCWA, ECE, ECA, UNESCO and UN-DESA, within the framework of an inter-regional project on "Capacity building for the sustainable utilisation, management and protection of internationally shared groundwater in the Mediterranean region". The project aims at strengthening the capacity of water management institutions in the Mediterranean region to implement sustainable forms of use, management and protection of internationally shared groundwater resources. The workshop aims to increase awareness and application by Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (MEDA) countries of the international norms in the sustainable management of shared aquifers.