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Subject:
Re: New Groundwater Learning Feature on IW:LEARN.net
Date:
03-May-2007 02:21 PM
Dear Mish
I was planning to put the following on your web-site, however I think it is
appropriate to go on dircet emails and in the aquifer list
Good morning,
Watching with interest the exchange of emails and the blogs that have been
set up through the IW LEARN USGS cooperation I would like to bring attention
to a number of key issues on the role of groundwater resources and the
contribution of aquifer systems to global environmental gains.
We discussed this in UNESCO, and we thought that there should be a consensus
on the direction and the line, including the concept and the scope of the
learning , that,
it is about the time to leave the traditional idea of the 'water' in
groundwater and its governance - with the view of the raw material of
'water' from the aquifers, and could succeed in focusing on integration -
an important issue is the direct linkage between aquifer systems and
sustainable land use - and the related benefits that would be one
significant advantage that the PALs with UNESCO-IHP can bring to the debate
in the GEF.
The GEF is looking for synergies across its focal areas - and has, for this
reason set up a new structure for management - IW, SLM and BD are now within
the Natural Resources. Cape Town is the opportunity to bring this out - and
UNESCO will do its best to show and bring to tables that we can and must
link water and land use.
On integration the Reports that were done for STAP on GW (2004), MAR (2005)
and SIDS (2006) are not being mentioned in the discussions nor is the
contribution of aquifer projects under preparation such as DiKTAS and MoRSCA
and many others etc . The first two STAP reports need to be and will be
highlighted as the backdrop to UNESCO's contribution.
To try to explain this clearly UNESCO has have produced a 'synergies' report
and this has been circulated and will be provided, drawing upon UNESCO's
complementarities (water, IOC, land, biodiversity etc) in Cape Town - and
will then be revised as the result of the process towards and in Cape Town -
with the key assistance from IGRAC.
The focus on the issue of synergies across focal areas, stresses the
importance of the IW focal area within the GEF system - as the basis of
UNESCO's input to Cape Town, and backed up the various UNESCO supported
policy documents - the three STAP Reports, plus the Synergies one etc.
This discussion is more complex, and our hope is that it advances beyond the
far too simple water supply management aspects that are getting out of date
and are too traditional and old to make a realistic benefit and to come out
again through the GEF, not consistent with and against the latest
structural development in GEF without responding to the priorities of
integration for synergies between focal areas. .
Integration for synergies cut across the four themes of the Cape Conference:
Governance, Scientific/technical innovations/ Achieving Results, Measuring
impacts, and Sustainable financing, it would be great if IW-LEARN could help
to have advertised as a cross-cutting theme in the Agenda.
Best Regards
Bo Appelgren
UNESCO
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mish Hamid"
To:
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 2:58 PM
Subject: [Aquifer] New Groundwater Learning Feature on IW:LEARN.net
> Dear Aquifer Structured Learning Community,
>
> Greetings after some time from IW:LEARN. We hope this message finds you
> well. In gearing up for the next International Waters Conference and other
> Groundwater-related events we would like to highlight a new blog feature
> now available on our website:
> http://www.iwlearn.net/blog/groundwater-learning/. The blog is a more
> useful technology which we'd like to use to eventually replace this
> mailing list. The blog serves as an online diary where participants can
> relate lessons-learned especially with regard to transboundary groundwater
> management. One can also post documents, links and photos to enhance the
> presentation. On top of that users can post comments on entries,
> maintaining the discussion aspect important to the structured learning. We
> encourage you to register for this blog (instructions at the end of this
> message) as a way to share useful documents, events and the like with the
> community.
>
> This feature was set up initially to coincide with IW:LEARN's groundwater
> stakeholder learning exchange in cooperation with the IAEA and USGS. This
> event saw major GEF IW groundwater projects assemble for a study tour in
> the US to consider technical, managerial and public participation aspects
> of groundwater. The Iullemeden, NW Sahara and Guarani aquifers
> participated, with some observation from the new IAEA executed GEF IW
> Nubian Aquifer project who were able to follow in "real-time". More
> information on this learning exchange is available at
> www.iwlearn.net/groundwater along with assembled documents and
> presentations. We hope this new exchange will usher in a new era for this
> structured learning community.
>
> Please take a moment to visit
> http://www.iwlearn.net/blog/groundwater-learning/. On that page you can
> view the blog's content. You also have two possibilities to subscribe. You
> can either "subscribe-only" (in the lower right part of the screen), or
> you can create a login (in the upper right part of the screen) for
> yourself in order to make postings. It is the first time we are
> experimenting with this medium so any comments you have are greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Mish
>
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>
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