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Subject: Europe, Oceania, Africa, Asia, Americas
Description: Ten years ago 1997 was declared the International Year of the Reef (IYOR). This was in response to the increasing threats and loss of coral reefs and associated ecosystems, such as mangroves and sea grasses. IYOR was a global effort to increase awareness and understanding about coral reefs, and support related conservation, research and management efforts.
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Description: The International Year of Planet Earth aims to capture people’s imagination with the exciting knowledge we possess about our planet, and to see that knowledge used to make the Earth a safer, healthier and wealthier place for our children and grandchildren.
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Description: To put the spotlight on this issue the UN General Assembly declared the year 2008 the International Year of Sanitation. The goal is to raise awareness and to accelerate progress towards the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target to reduce by half the proportion of people without access to basic sanitation by 2015.
Subject: Europe, Exhibition, Convention
Description: This three-month public event, which will take as its theme “water and sustainable development,” is expected to attract a large audience, and will feature a specially-constructed “Water Tower” that will have a capacity of 1630 visitors per hour.
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Description: The workshop will be organised under the auspices of the UNECE Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (Water Convention) and of the Protocol on Water and Health to the Water Convention.
Subject: Europe, Workshop
Description: The workshop on adaptation to climate change in water sector will be organised under the auspices of the Water Convention and of the Protocol on Water and Health to the Convention, following the outcomes of the first meeting of the Task Force on Water and Climate.
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Subject: Conference, Europe
Description: The International Conference on Flood Recovery Innovation and Response, FRIAR 2008, aims to bring together researchers and practitioners who are actively involved in the repair, reinstatement and resilience of flood damaged property.
Subject: Conference, Asia
Description: The conference will focus on the issues of: Security, Safety, Frugality, and Conservation.
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Subject: Symposium, Americas
Description: Reefs for the future
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Description: The IPY Joint Committee has endorsed this event as the first in a series of international interdisciplinary IPY conferences. It is therefore co-sponsored by ICSU and WMO. Session 4.1 "Polar Observing Systems" will be co-convened by GOOS (contact: Keith Alverson, Director of the GOOS Project Office).
Subject: Europe, Symposium
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Subject: Conference, Africa
Description: This conference aims to provide a global forum for practitioners, organizations, donors and agencies from a wide range of disciplines working in the water and environmental sanitation sectors. The meeting includes field trips to see examples of activities that need to be done in the community and the work done in the community in Mubende, Uganda.
Subject: Symposium, special session, Americas
Description: The GEF IW:LEARN and the GEF Coral Lessons Learned Project will co-host a 3-hour session on GEF coral projects' lessons, including sharing of key discoveries [and knowledge products] to date from the Coral Reef Targeted Research project. The event is co-located with the 11th International Coral Reef Symposium (ICRS-11).
Greater Fort Lauderdale, Broward County Convention Center
in Rooms 207 & 208
on Tuesday, July 08, 2008
from 6:30-9:30 PM.
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Subject: Conference, Oceania
Description: This conference has three themes- Communities Make the System; Transcultural Communication and Beyond Rhetoric- Improving our Capacity in Environmental Education. Virtual participation options are available.
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Subject: Europe, Symposium
Description: The symposium will review recent advances on sediments management related research and focus on engineering aspects. It will provide a unique opportunity for experts and engineers all over the world to meet and share their experience.
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Description: This will be the final ODINAFRICA-III seminar and also the ODINAFRICA-IV planning workshop
Subject: Oceania, Workshop
Description: This 3-day long event will consist of three short courses, invited lectures and contributed talks on the mathematics of water supply and pricing.
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Subject: Conference, Americas
Description: The 4th IWA Young Water Professionals International Conference (16-18 July 2008, Berkeley, USA) will provide a forum for young researchers and professionals working in water and wastewater research, technology and management to present their work and meet their peers from all over the world.
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Description: The conference is designed for individuals in industry, government, or academia who are involved with recirculating aquaculture. This conference continues to feature presentations and poster sessions from leading experts in recirculating aquacu
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Subject: Europe, Workshop
Description: The aim of the 2nd International Junior Researcher and Engineer Workshop on Hydraulic Structures (IJREWHS’08) is to provide an opportunity for young researchers and engineers (typically post graduate students, but also young researchers and engineers in both public and private sectors) to present ideas, plans, and preliminary results of their own research in an inspiring, friendly, co-operative, and non-competitive environment.
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International Year of the Reef 2008 (start: 12:00 am - Jan 1, 2008 | end: 12:00 am - Dec 31, 2008)
