Latin American water funds

WORLD WATER WEEK
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The Nature Conservancy and ACRA
 
 
Latin America Focus
 
Successful Practices in Water Resource Management in Latin America: Delivering Multiple Benefits
 
With growing competition over limited water resources, governments have begun to accept the concept of integrated resource management as a fundamental approach to resource allocation issues, steering away from traditional sectoral approaches. Read More...
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Faculty: Limnologist/aquatic ecology

Limnologist/Aquatic Ecologist:
University of Nebraska

The School of Natural Resources (SNR) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is seeking an assistant professor (tenure-track, 9-month appointment) to conduct basic and applied research in aquatic ecology and limnology.  We seek individuals whose research integrates theory and basic science with applied issues to address emerging environmental challenges in managed ecosystems.  Areas of expertise may include water quality, invasive species, land-use impacts, ecotoxicology, and other topics that improve our understanding of the structure, function and health of surface water ecosystems. The individual will be expected to teach courses in aquatic ecology, limnology and other water quality topics contributing to undergraduate and graduate programs in SNR which includes bachelor’s degrees in Water Sciences, Fisheries and Wildlife, Environmental Restoration Science, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees Natural Resources Sciences.
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Conservation books for the developing world!

The British Ecological Society and the NHBS Environment Bookstore together are offering free ecology and conservation books to readers and professionals in developing nations. Please see further information at http://www.nhbs.com/Conservation/gratis-books and feel free to share with your colleagues. Read More...
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Water Footprint News

Worldwide WWF Water Footprint events and Resources!
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Virtual Water Conference

Tuesday September 28 - Wednesday September 29, 2010
Tapping into Solutions: Leading Water’s Future is an online conference bringing together a diverse group of leaders from industry, government, not-for-profit organizations (Foundations and Non-Government Organizations), and academia to explore water’s complex role in society. Each sector seeks solutions, often independently, to improve water quality and ensure water availability for competing uses.  This conference aims to create a dialog between leaders in these sectors and explore their future technical and leadership needs.   Please join us as we bring together diverse perspectives to explore and debate these complex water issues, identify the leadership needed to manage the resource, and offer a framework to illuminate potential solutions.

http://www.elpnet.org/events/water
 
 
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Call for African women in climate change work

The International Foundation for Science (IFS) Eastern Africa Hub together with the Regional Universities Forum for Capacity building in Agriculture (RUFORUM), the Regional Center for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD) and the IGAD Climate Prediction and Application Center (ICPAC) with support from NORAD have announced a training and networking project on "enhancing the participation of African Women Scientists in Climate Change Assessment, Information Dissemination and Policy Advocacy.”
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Latin American climate adaptation focus: World Water Week

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Climate adaptation and water management in Australia

Tuesday, September 712:30 - 2:00 PM Room J 1-050 * Coffee and cookies will be provided

Water Planning and Adapting to Climate Change in Australia: Policy, Law and Practice

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Youth environmental issues conference

Are you interested in Energy and Environment issues?

You are invited to the Launch Conference of the new European Youth Energy and Environment Platform on Tuesday 5th October 2010 from 15:30 to 18:30 at the European Parliament.

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CARE climate adaptation and development newsletter

Please find a link to the bi-annual newsletter of CARE International's Poverty, Environment and Climate Change Network (PECCN).  If you want to share our newsletter, please feel free to pass it on and encourage others to sign up for future issues at www.careclimatechange.org/newsletter. This is a public document. Read More...
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Regional US Midwest water management, climate change conference

The effect of climate change on community water resource management will be the focus of the Clean Water and Climate Adaptation Summit planned for September 16 and 17 at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. Presented by the Arboretum, in collaboration with the Minnehaha Creek Watershed District and the Minnesota Climate Change Adaptation Working Group, the summit is aimed at local government officials and staff, industry leaders, natural resource professionals, scientists and citizens interested in learning how climate trends might affect Minnesota and the region.
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Summit on environmental literacy and education

Ecology and Education Summit: Environmental Literacy for a Sustainable World October 14-15, 2010,  Washington, DC
Advanced Registration available through Sept 20.

Co-organized by: Ecological Society of America and National Education Association and more than 20 national organizations and partners.
 

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Monitoring & evaluation for climate adaptation meeting

WHAT:  World Resources Institute (WRI) presentation on Monitoring and Evaluation for Integrated Climate and Development Programs
WHEN: September 22, 2:00-3:00 pm EST
WHERE: InterAction, 1400 16th St. NW, Suite 210, Washington DC 20036
RSVP: Space is limited.  Please RSVP to Danielle Heiberg (dheiberg@interaction.org) by Friday, September 17 Read More...
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Postdoc: Great Lakes climate change impacts

A team at Michigan Technological University has just been recommended for NSF funding to assess the sustainability of water resources in the Great Lakes region in the face of changing climate and land use. We need to get a post-doc started on the project early this fall. Please forward the attached announcement to any of your recent or pending graduates who might be qualified. We need someone with good GIS and computer modeling skills who can apply those skills to modeling hydrology and water quality.
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Webinar on adaptation and governance

Changing Climate, Shifting Institutions: Building Governance and Capacity through Freshwater Adaptation
Efforts to respond to the impacts of a shifting climate in the water community have widely focused on particular eco-hydrological changes in freshwater systems, such as floods, droughts, and higher water temperatures. From this perspective, climate change is defined largely as a problem with an engineering (or engineering finance) solution. Engineers themselves, however, have declared that the current measures for designing long-lasting water infrastructure assumes that the recent historical hydrological information is a fair representation of future conditions — an assumption that has recently been declared “dead,” since historical statistically “normal” hydrological states are expected to shift, but without knowing how much or often even in what direction. Climate change thus causes increasingly uncertain hydrological futures for decades and possibly centuries.
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International IWRM conference: Germany Nov 2010

Be a part of IWRM Karlsruhe 2010 at Karlsruhe Convention Center on 24th and 25th  November  2010,  when international  experts  from science and the economy meet to bring together and exchange the globally available know-how on IWRM - Integrated Water Resources Management. IWRM  Karlsruhe  2010, which is organised by Fraunhofer IOSB and Karlsruher Messe-  und  Kongress-GmbH  and which is under the patronage of the Federal Ministry  for Economic Cooperation and Development, addresses cutting-edge topics and issues concerning IWRM in three parallel sessions.
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US EPA comments on water utility adaptation requested

U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 
[FRL-9192-2; Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2010-0701]

Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment: Four Case Studies of Water Utility Practices 
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of public comment period.
 
SUMMARY: EPA is announcing a 45-day public comment period for the draft
document titled, ``Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment: Four Case
Studies of Water Utility Practices'' (EPA/600/R-10/077a). The document
was prepared by the National Center for Environmental Assessment within
EPA's Office of Research and Development.
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US student fellowships for Asia-Pacific research

2011 NSF EAPSI Fellowship Program Now Open

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION EAST ASIA AND PACIFIC SUMMER INSTITUTES FOR U.S. GRADUATE STUDENTS - 2011 APPLICATION NOW OPEN (Link: www.nsfsi.org ) Read More...
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Strategic Water Policy Forum: Slovenia

The Bled Strategic Forum: Global and National Water Policy for the Next Decade
30 August 2010, Bled, Slovenia

As a result of climate change, population growth, environmental degradation and increased demand for food and energy, almost half of the world's population will have lived in areas of high water stress by 2030. With longer droughts, more frequent extreme meteorological events and changes in precipitation patterns, global warming affects particularly the water cycle. Climate change will impact on the most vulnerable communities in developing countries, multiplying the effects of poverty, poor governance and political instability. Read More...
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Sustaining Water in a Changing Climate conference

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Sustaining Water for All in a Changing Climate

The World Bank’s Board has recently endorsed a Progress Report on the Bank’s Water Strategy. It calls for renewed emphasis on:

• Integration of new technologies
• Hydropower
• Climate Change Adaptation
• Agriculture
• Sanitation
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