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Home to more than 13 million people, Mali stretches from the Sahara Desert in the north to the semiarid grassland known as the Sahel in the south.

The Third South Asia Water Research Conference was held in Dhaka on May 24-26, 2008. The topic was "Innovative Modelling Approaches for IWRM".

On June 28, 2008, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite captured these images of Qingdao and the bay of Jiaozhou Wan. It shows the officials and residents of Qingdao (also known as Tsingtao) struggling with a stubborn adversary: algae. The top image is a natural-color image similar to what a digital camera would photograph.

Forwarded to the Portal by: Shruti, SOPPECOM Forum for Policy Dialogue on Water Conflicts in India invites abstracts for papers on "Contending Water Uses and Users and Inter-Sectoral Equity in South Asia: Cases and Learnings for a New Policy,

SaciWATERs, South Asia Consortium for Interdisciplinary Water Resources Studies is organising an International Confe

Subject: Ecosan

Duration: 1:20 mins

Finally, another post to add to the "Humor" category of the blog. There is not enough of it in the water sector !

A quick introduction to Ecosan

Eco-san in a city

 A visual depiction of potential climate change impacts across the world from the National Geographic Channel. Below is a screen capture, click on the link to see the full application.

Welcome to Water Voices from Around The World , a new book and voice for the water and life gracing our planet's biosphere. A water voice that flows through all kingdoms of life, as well as our human realms of science; philosophy; politics; history; art; economics; religion; society; music, and culture. Three years in the making - Water Voices is a tabletop (13 inches H x 10 inches W) hardcover book containing 230 pages and 400 color photographs - many with informative captions.