5th World Water Forum | System of Environmental Economic Accounting

Documents

Documents for the Meeting

Organization of the topic

Conclusions, recommendations and proposals for the topic

Papers and Presentations for the Meeting

OPENING Introduction

Introduction to topic 6.4 Data for All

Keynote address (Roberto Lenton, Global Water Partnership)

Report on the French Side Event on Water Information Systems (Marie-Perrine Miossec, Office National de l'Eau et des Milieux Aquatiques, France)

SESSION 1 Data Needs and Data Acquisition

Building the Data Base (Arthur Askew, International Association of Hydrological Sciences)

Multiple Benefits, Multiple Tradeoffs (Paul West, The Nature Conservancy & University of Wisconsin, USA)

The Hydrological Cycle - Monitoring Locations and Equipment (Martin Schinnerl, Ott Messtechnik GmbH & Co, Germany)

Snow Products development on Mountainous area by Turkish H-SAF team (TSMS-METU) (Ünal Sorman, Middle East Technical University,Turkey)

Building the Database: Remote Sensing (Ian Cluckie, Swansea University, UK)

SESSION 2 Data Integration and Dissemination: From Data to Information

Introduction (Jose Ramon Ardavin, National Water Commission, Mexico)

Overview (Ivo Havinga, United Nations Statistics Division)

UN-Water Approach to Data Integration & Dissemination (Pasquale Steduto, Food and Agricultural Organisation)

Water Environment Partnership Asia (Mitsumasa Okada, Ministry of Environment, Japan)

One Recipe for Getting Water Data 'Right' (Rob Vertessy, Bureau of Meteorology, Australia)

Bridging the Observational Gap (Richard Connor, World Water Assessment Programme)

Frameworks and approaches: Regional (Wafa Aboul Hosn, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for West Asia)

An Outline of Water Statistics in China (Guozhi Du, Ministry of Water Resources, China)

Brazilian Initiative (Mauricio Cezar Rebello Cordeiro, National Water Agency, Brazil)

3 Keys to Data for All (Sabrina Barker, United Nations Environment Programme)

Data Integration and Accounting for Sustainable Water Management in Europe: The Water Information System for Europe (WISE) (Beate Werner, European Environment Agency, Commission of the European Communities)

Water Quality and Water Pollution - Data for Old and New Policy Questions (Michael Nagy, Umweltbundesamt, Austria)

From Open Data Sources to Transparent Knowledge-based Management and Policy (Seppo Rekolainen, Finnish Environment Institute - SYKE, Finland)

Mediterranean Experiences: A Regional Approach of SEEA-W (Cécile Roddier-Quefelec, Med Stat II, Commission of the European Communities)

SEEAW for Lebanon (Ghalia Hamamy, Central Administration for Statistics, Lebanon)

Experiences in Water Statistics & Accounts (Mahmoud Alkhawalde, Department of Statistics, Jordan)

GRDC Presentation (Ulrich Looser, Global Runoff Data Centre, Institute of Hydrology, Germany)

Global Groundwater Monitoring Network (Sophie Vermooten, International Groundwater Resources Assessment Centre, Netherlands)

Session Outcome (Michael Vardon, United Nations Statistics Division)

SESSION 3 Barriers to Data Availability

Overview (Bruce Stewart, World Meteorological Organisation)

We Need to Share Data (Mr Vladimir Smakhtin, International Water Management Institute, Sri Lanka)

Political and Legal Barriers to Data Availability (Andrew Allan, International Water Law Research Institute, UK)

Economical and Social Barriers to Water Related Data Availability in the Bangladesh Context (Abu Saleh Khan, Institute of Water Modelling, Bangladesh)

Hydrological Monitoring Stations Network (Magheb Hussein, Iraq)

SESSION 4 Action to Ensure Data for All

Conclusions and Challanges for Session 1 (Hafzullah Aksoy, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)

Conclusions, Recommendations and Proposals for Session 2 (Michael Vardon, United Nations Statistics Division and Ricardo Martinez, National Water Commission Mexico)

Conclusions, Recommendations and Proposals for Session 3 (Bruce Stewart, World Meteorological Organisation)

Conclusions, Recommendations and Proposals for Session 4 (Michael Vardon, United Nations Statistics Division)

Background Documents

System of Environmental-Economic Accounting for Water (SEEAW)

Report on the Global Assessment of Water Statistics and Water Accounts

Water Information System for Europe (WISE) (Beate Werner, European Environment Agency, Commission of European Communities)

Developing Water Accounts for the Arab-ESCWA Region (Wafa Aboul Hosn, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for West Asia)

Event Date

Friday, 06 March 2009 - 9:00am to Sunday, 22 March 2009 - 5:15pm