Central Asian International Research and Practice Conference

Twenty Years of Water Cooperation among the Central Asian Countries: Past Experience and Future Challenges

On the 20th anniversary of the Interstate Commission for Water Coordination (ICWC), the following anniversary events will take place 20-21 September 2012 in Almaty - the city, where this significant occasion for the water sector and environment of Central Asia has happened:

  • 60th anniversary meeting of ICWC
  • Central Asian International Research and Practice Conference «Twenty Years of Water Cooperation among the Central Asian Countries: Past Experience and Future Challenges»

Goals of the Conference:

  • Further development of interstate water cooperation
  • Outcomes of twenty-year cooperation
  • Unrealized opportunities, shortcomings, challenges, and ways out.

The Conference is scheduled in the form of two plenary sessions and five concurrent roundtables.

First plenary session – key reports on regional priorities

Roundtables:

  1. Strengthening of the legal framework for cooperation;
  2. 10th anniversary of the Global Water Partnership for Central Asia and Caucasus - inputs into integrated water resources management;
  3. Water cooperation, water and energy security in Central Asia;
  4. Transboundary river water management;
  5. Preservation of water resources capacity under climate change.

Second plenary session – reports of roundtable chairmen, summing up, adopting a “Resolution”, and closing of the Conference

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