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Technical Webinar: "Monitoring Strategies in Transboundary Aquifers: Goals, Methods and Tools - The Case of the DRIN Project"

16 Oct 2020 | by khristine@iwlearn.org
This online workshop taking place on On 20 October 2020 is convened by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Global Water Partnership – Mediterranean (GWP-Med).

This Webinar will analyze existing groundwater monitoring strategies, tools and methods for transboundary aquifers and will provide guidelines on how to design monitoring plans that are compliant with European Union (EU) Water Framework Directive (WFD) regulations and national frameworks. It will also provide specific guidelines for the operation of a monitoring network in the particular two-hydrogeology context (coastal area and inland alluvial aquifer) as applied in the Global Environment Facility ‘Drin project’. 

The Webinar is targeted at administration officials in charge of water resources management, professionals and technicians involved in monitoring plans, environmental professionals and stakeholders concerned with the management of transboundary aquifers and/or the implementation of the EU WFD (or similar regulations). 

Programme of the webinar is one day divided into two session, two hours each. Here is the provisional agenda.

Registration Link: http://bit.ly/drin-webinar

Please do not hesitate to directly contact Mr. Alexandros Makarigakis (a.makarigakis@unesco.org) if you have any questions or inquiries.

The Webinar will be in English but simultaneous interpretation into Albanian and Montenegrin will be available.