Sixth Inter-American Dialogue on Water Management

Guatemala City, Guatemala, 12 Aug 07 - 17 Aug 07

Organised by: Government of Guatemala and the Inter-American Water Resources Network (IWRN) in collaboration with the Organization of American States (OAS), UNESCO, the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation in Agriculture (IICA) and the Florida Center for Environmental Studies (CES).

Theme: From Dialogue to action – Strengthening partnerships and building the basis for meeting the Millennium Development Goals.

Proposed topics:

  • agriculture and food security
  • gender and inter-generational issues and water
  • conservation and restoration of aquatic ecosystems
  • transboundary basins and aquifers
  • energy and productive processes and water
  • knowledge generation and exchange and lessons learned
  • governance and water resources
  • investments in multi-purpose projects
  • communication, awareness, and water culture
  • environment and development
  • national water resources management plans and strategies
  • risks and extreme events
  • sanitation, human and environmental health in development
  • water security
  • water management information systems
  • water management in small island states
  • appropriate technologies
  • economic and social valuation of water resources

Contact: Ing. Carlos Roberto Cobos, Sixth Dialogue Coordinator CT-MIRH/PARPA - Ministry of Agriculture , Guatemala, dialogue6@iwrn.net, d6.coordinator@iwrn.net, carlos.cobos@maga.gob.gt

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- Location:
Guatemala City, Guatemala
- Date:
12 Aug 07 - 17 Aug 07


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