Organizer: The Water Channel
Date: September 14, 2011 (Click here to check what time that would be in your time zone.)
The Water Channel was launched at the World Water Forum in 2009 in Istanbul as a partnership of MetaMeta Communications, Nymphaea, UNESCO-IHE, and Cap-Net. The idea was to support education and awareness in water by making video material available that is often scattered and easily lost. It wanted to 'touch' its visitors and to help inspire them to work towards a world of better water management. The first year exceeded the expectation in terms of uptake and content! Joint projects were carried out with a wide variety of organizations and new partners joined in.
Description:
With support from IFAD, The Water Channel started a series of webinars (web-based seminars; presentations or lectures transmitted over the web) on a variety of topics under three themes related to rural poverty alleviation -
- Access to water
- Groundwater buffers for climate change adaptation
- Sustainable land management
The webinars will be organised together with its partners UNESCO-IHE and Cap-Net, and will feature some well-known experts on these topics. The webinars will be collaborative; the participants will be able to communicate with the resource persons in real-time. Apart from lectures, there will be key resources, polls and question-answer sessions.
Topic: Update on new low cost water technologies for drinking, domestic use and irrigation
Innovations over the last 10 years have drastically reduced the cost and increased the sustainability of many water and sanitation technologies. These can be harnessed by the private sector all over the world to develop affordable solutions for local water use/sanitation needs. Through large-scale capacity building on Smart Techs, developing countries could reach WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) related MDGs (4 and 7), improve food security and increase incomes rural incomes.
Speaker:
Henk Holtslag
Registration:
You can register for the webinars on http://webinar.thewaterchannel.tv. The site contains learning material from previous webinars and announcements about upcoming ones.
Contact Details:
The Water Channel
Costerweg 1-d
6702 AA Wageningen
The Netherlands
+31 (0)317 35 11 51
email:
info@thewaterchannel.tv
Website: www.thewaterchannel.tv/en/home
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