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Past Events
The Nile Basin Initiative helped to bring African water and power ministers to the Columbia River Basin for a two week tour, hosted by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. The Universities Partnership for Transboundary Waters hosted one day of the tour that focused on management at a local sub-basin level, featuring a watershed restoration project at the Raindance Ranch in Monroe, Oregon.
contributed to the structure and content of the seminar as experts on Mexico's major water basin. This four day seminar, held in Mexico City, attempted to clarify present concepts and approaches for the negotiation and resolution of hydrological conflicts at the subnational level. Sponsored by the National Commission of the Water and the World Meteorological Organization, Aaron Wolf of the Universities Partnership for Transboundary Waters, Guillermo Chavez Zarate, Ma. Teresa Salmeron de la Cruz, Jorge Medina Esquivel and Alfredo Mora Magana of the Mexican River Basin Councils and the National Water Ministry led sessions in basic definitions of terms and concepts, characterization of water conflicts and techniques of negotiations. A work program was also defined that involved collaboration in matters of conflict negotiation.
Stakeholder Participation in International
River Basins: Models, Successes and Failures, Workshop On April 14-16, 2003, the Universities Partnership for Transboundary Waters along with the Department of Geosciences at Oregon State University hosted an international workshop focusing on the concerns, needs, and expertise of officials tasked with public participation and/or environmental protection within an international water basin. Participants included international river basin practitioners from the Lempa River (Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador), the San Juan River (Costa Rica, Nicaragua), the Okavango River (Angola, Namibia, Botswana), and the Rio Grande/ Rio Bravo River (U.S. Mexico). See additional workshop information: Read the press release on the meeting. Top photograph: Sandra Coveny, watershed council coordinator for the Mary's River shares Oregonian perspectives on linking local level initiatives with State and Federal Agency initiatives. Background: Landowner wetland restoration project, Monroe, Oregon, USA.; Bottom photograph: Stefanus de Wet shares Namibian perspectives on Stakeholder Participation. Isidrio Pinheiro, and Kalaote Kalaote from the Okavango River Basin Commission, Juan Jose Romero Martinez, (San Juan River Basin), Mary Santelman and Aaron Wolf (Oregon State University) look on.
Joint Seminar: Transboundary Water Issues in South Caucasus Participants from Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia gathered in Tbilisi,
Georgia for a joint seminar coordinated by the Organization for
Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Development Alternatives,
Inc., the Pacific Institute, and Oregon State University. The objectives
of the seminar were to learn about and move towards improved coordination
of transboundary water projects within the Kura-Araks system, and
to build skills in selected topic areas necessary for coordination
and cooperation.
World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD)
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