Colloquium
24 November 2006
Date: 29 November 2006
Time: 16h30 for 17h00
Venue: African Window (National Cultural History Museum), 149 Visagie Street,
Pretoria
Theme: Transboundary Water Resource Governance: Hydropolitical Vulnerability
and Resilience.
Objective of the Water Sector Colloquia:
* identification of new issues
* understanding of emerging trends
* fostering of crucial alliances for the sustainable development
* breakdown of organisational and technical barriers.
This important forum has been created to maintain regular focused
discussions in which issues of strategic importance relating to the ongoing
transformation in the water sector are discussed and debated with the aim of
facilitating a free flow of knowledge and information within and between
organisations. This event is open to all decision-makers in the water sector.
Registration is free.
Speakers:
Peter J Ashton:
Peter Ashton is a Principal Researcher in the Water Ecosystems Research Group
of South Africa's Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), and an
Honorary Professor of Water Resources Management at the University of Pretoria.
He has over thirty-five years of experience on water research projects,
specialising in integrated management approaches for shared (transboundary)
river systems in southern and central Africa.
Anthony R Turton:
Anthony Turton is a Principal Researcher and Head of the Water Governance
Research Group at the South African Council for Scientific and Industrial
Research, and serves on several international bodies. Anthony has a keen
interest in trans-disciplinary approaches to water resource management,
especially the political and governance issues that underpin the management of
transboundary water resources.
RSVP:
E-mail: okonkwoA@dwaf.gov.za
E-mail: mbentseb@dwaf.gov.za
Issued by: Department of Water Affairs and Forestry
24 November 2006
Source: Department of Water Affairs and Forestry (http://www.dwaf.gov.za)
