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Invitations for Fellowships to the International training and Research Program
on Groundwater Governance in IGB and Yellow River Basins (Closing date: August
10, 2007) and brief on Summary and Writing Workshops for the First Cycle of the
Program. You are requested to send in applications for availing the fellowships
and making best use of this highly innovative and comprehensive training and
research program. See full details at : http://www.waterandfood.org/gga

Best Regards.

Bharat Sharma
IWMI, New Delhi


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From: CPWF-Secretariat
Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 2:39 PM
Subject: Newsletter: 24th Issue of Water and Food

Welcome to the 24th Issue of Water and Food - the CPWF bimonthly
newsletter, May/June 2007
Read the whole newsletter www.waterandfood.org/newsletter/
'Upstream, downstream, Coello, music, life and work'
This was the motto of the recent 'Conversatorio' held in the Colombian
city of Ibague in the Andes Coello watershed. Conversatorios are a legal
participatory mechanism specific to Colombia, where the community leads
negotiations with the government and the private sector regarding environmental,
social, economical, and political matters.

Project Update: Strategic Analysis of India's National River Linking
Project
Destined to be one of the biggest water transfer initiatives in the world,
the Indian National River Linking Project (NRLP) is in no doubt a grandiose
undertaking. If implemented, the NRLP will link 37 Himalayan Peninsula Rivers
with 12,500 km of canals, transfer 174 billion cubic metres of water and
generate 35 gigawatts of hydropower.

A platform for improved natural resource management, Nepal
In no other place do the mountains rise so quickly than in the Pokhara
district in Nepal. Within 30 km the land climbs from 1000 m to 8000 m above sea
level. This gives rise to a highly diverse landscape of deep canyons, high
forested mountains and wild rivers.

Mekong River Basin Workshop 19 - 23 May 2007.
Coinciding with a visit from a member of the CPWF external review panel,
members of the management team, Gender, Institutions and Participations (GIP)
panel and Basin Focal Projects (BFP) met with select project leaders and theme
leaders to discuss current CPWF research projects in the Mekong.

Writing and Summary workshops culminate the first phase of research for
Groundwater Governance in Asia project
In March, the International Training and Research program on Groundwater
Governance in Asia (GGA) ran writing and summary workshops for its researchers
to mark the end of the first phase of the project.

Staff Changes
In the Nile Basin, we are pleased to announce that Mohamed Abdel- Salam
Abdel-Meguid has been appointed by the National Water Research Centre (NWRC) in
Egypt to take over from Mahmoud Moustafa as Basin Coordinator.

Farewell to Frank
In March 2007, Frank Rijsberman announced that he would step down as
IWMI's Director General and resign his Chair on the CPWF Consortium Steering
Committee (CSC) in order to take up a position with Google.org, the
philanthropic arm of Google.

Announcements
Call for Groundwater Management Fellows
The CPWF project: "Groundwater Governance in Asia: Capacity Building
through Action Research in the Indo-Gangetic (IGB) and Yellow River Basins
(YRB)" invites Junior/Media Fellows and Senior Fellows

Managing Transitions to Adaptive River Basin Management Summer School
Germany, 11 - 21 July 2007
The Summer School is a sequel to last year's Autumn School in Peyresq,
France which introduced NeWater and non-NeWater researchers to concepts of and
methods for adaptive river basin management.

Felicity Woodhams - f.woodhams@... The editor, Water and
Food - the CPWF bimonthly newsletter



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