Multi-heritage city-design team innovates for urban water management: Emily Ocon , Catalina Rincon-Arcila , and Amanda Gonzalez are students at St.

WHITEHOUSE: The White House

The session will include a demonstration of the UGROW software, a complete and fully integrated modelling package and a decision-support tool for urban water management.

UNESCO: Le monde c��l��bre la Journ��e mondiale de l'eau (22 mars)

In this event, participants will explore if and how cities in a developing country context can accelerate the development of their urban water management systems by by-passing conventional, centralized approaches and promoting more decentralized and flexible solutions that promise a higher degree of sustainability.

UNESCO: World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP)

The interim Secretariat of the International Drought Initiative (IDI), the Regional Centre on Urban Water Management - RCUWM (under the auspices of UNESCO), supported by the Iranian Ministry of Energy and the Iranian IHP National Committee in collaboration with a number of UN agencies, international and regional organizations and key national agencies, are organizing the Second International Drought Initiative Meeting in Tehran, Iran.

UNESCO: Second International Drought Initiative (IDI) Meeting

The film highlights key water quality problems such as lack of access to safe water and sanitation, inefficient wastewater management in urban areas, water pollution caused by intensive use of nutrients and chemicals in agriculture, the invisible threat of new and emerging pollutants in water and the economic costs of water quality degradation.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

During this session, water management under conditions of uncertainty and risk will be addressed through different perspectives - including water for urban settlements, valuation, pollution and disasters and the need for accurate information - with proper links to sustainable development.

UNESCO: World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP)