Water and Cities [CITI] 18.March - 19.March Opening Plenary 18.March 10:30 - 12:00 Grand Cube Osaka Main Hall Wrap up Plenary 19.March 18:30 - 20:00 Grand Cube Osaka Main Hall United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)   Kalyan Ray   kalyan.ray@unhabitat.org Wakako Matsuda   matsuda@water-forum3.com
	More than half the world's population is concentrated in urban areas covering just 4 percent of the world's surface. Such dense concentrations can lead to high rates of water-related illnesses from lack of safe drinking water or adequate sanitation. Urban water issues are intertwined with issues of poverty, groundwater, floods, and land use. Because the number of people potentially affected is high, solving urban water issues in cities, especially megacities, deserves increased public attention. In a unique process of knowledge sharing leading up to the 3rd World Water Forum, dialogues will take place in Africa, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific, Europe, and the Middle East. Each region will relay its findings to the next regional meeting, so common subjects and solutions will be continuously shared and developed. The United Nations Human Settlement Programme (UN-HABITAT) and the Asian Development Bank held regional consultation meetings in Senegal in March 2002 and in New Delhi in April 2002. Other regional workshops and in-country consultations were held in preparation for a stakeholder workshop at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg. The results of the dialogues will be presented during the Water And Cities session at the Forum, including a technical symposium followed by a plenary session. The session is expected to identify priorities in the urban water sector and develop a framework for resolution of urban water issues. A roundtable of ministers and heads of local governments is planned to announce a political commitment to concrete actions to resolve urban water issues. Title Dates Organaizer / Convening Organizations Opening Plenary : Water and Cities [CITI-OP] 18.March 10:30-12:00 United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) History of Water: Lessons to Learn [CITI-03] 18.March 12:30-15:15 International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage(ICID), International Water History Association (IWHA), United Nations University(UNU), Sayamaike-Museum (Osaka Prefectural Government) Integrated and participatory management of river courses at the district level: Urban Water Deals [CITI-08] 18.March 12:30-15:15 Provicia di Padova-disrid of Padova and Centro Italiano per La Riqualificazione, Integrated Coastal Policy via Building with nature [CITI-06] 18.March 12:30-15:15 Ministy of Transport, Public Works and Water Management of The Netherlands Venice: new life for old cisterns [CITI-02] 18.March 12:30-15:15 Municipality of Venice Water for Cities: Dynamic Solutions for Meeting the Urban Water Challenge [CITI-05] 18.March 12:30-15:15 UNEP International Environmental Technology Centre (IETC) in partnership with UNEP-GPA, UN-HABITAT, UNDP-TUGI, IWA and WRC Water in Asian Cities [CITI-04] 18.March 12:30-15:15 Asian Development Bank(ADB) Canceled(Conservation and Phewa and Other Lakes in Pokhara Valley) [CITI-14] 18.March 15:45-18:30 Save the Phewa Lake and Environment Conservation Committee Pokhara Effective Local Government for Integrated Water Resources Management [CITI-13] 18.March 15:45-18:30 International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives(ICLEI) Rainwater Harvesting & Educational Awareness [CITI-10] 18.March 15:45-18:30 KRG Rainwater Harvesting Foundation, Chennai, India Regional groundwater issues of the urban areas developed on lowland [CITI-11] 18.March 15:45-18:30 Research committee for groundwater and geo-environment, Research subcommittee for cultivation of groundwater River Transport in Yodo River [CITI-12] 18.March 15:45-18:30 Yodogawa 21st Century Bureau Water for Asian Cities Seminar [CITI-09] 18.March 15:45-18:30 UN-HABITAT, Asian Development Bank (ADB) Financing Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor [CITI-16] 19.March 8:45-11:30 UN-HABITAT, ADB, WB Integrated River Basin Environment Assessment [CITI-18] 19.March 8:45-11:30 Disaster Prevention Research Institute and Dept. of Civil Eng., Kyoto University Poverty Mitigation in Peri-Urban Slums through Providing Water Supply and Sanitation [CITI-17] 19.March 8:45-11:30 Association of Geoscientists for International Development (AGID), International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH) and Ground Water Institute (GWI) The Role of Small Scale Private Water Providers in Serving the Poor [CITI-15] 19.March 8:45-11:30 Asian Development Bank(ADB) Water for Asian megacities - 21st Century Options & Actions [CITI-07] 19.March 8:45-11:30 Center For Built Environment High Level Ministerial and Mayoral Session on Water for Asian Cities [CITI-21] 19.March 12:30-15:15 UN-HABITAT, Asian Development Bank (ADB) Impact Evaluation Studies to Improve Water and Sanitation Project Design and Implementation [CITI-20] 19.March 12:30-15:15 Asian Development Bank(ADB) Water and City - Flood Control with environmental measure in Urban Area [CITI-22] 19.March 12:30-15:15 Hydraulics Engineering Research International Conference of Aquapolises [CITI-19] 19.March 14:00-18:00 Rivers and Canals Public Works Bureau "Waste not; Want not" - Rehabilitation and Installation of Underground Water Pipelines [CITI-26] 19.March 15:30-18:15 International Society for Trenchless Technology (ISTT) Building a City Free of Contaminated Water [CITI-27] 19.March 15:30-18:15 CWWI and Sosei World Co. Ltd. Sustainable Water Supply in Developing Countries [CITI-23] 19.March 15:30-18:15 Japan Bank for International Cooperation Water Purification in Urban Area --How should any preservation of water environment be?-- [CITI-24] 19.March 15:30-18:15 Sanyo Techno Marine, Inc. Water related risk management in Mediterranean megacities [CITI-25] 19.March 15:30-18:15 Mediterranean Water Institute Wrap up : Water and Cities [CITI-WP] 19.March 18:30-20:00 United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) CITI1_citi.doc Draft STATEMENT CITI2_CITI.doc Water and City -Flood Control in Urban Area- River Transportation Water,History and City Regional groundwater issues of the urban area developed on lowland - Integrated strategy for groundw Disaster and Water Utilization of Southeast Asian Rivers Human Values for Water and Sanitation History of Water(failures and lesson to learn) Water for Cities Water & Sanitation For The Urban & Periurban Slums Integrated River Basin Environment Assessment
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