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Dr. Jauad El Kharraz
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EMWIS Flash - April 2008
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In this issue N°58 (http://www.emwis.net/thematicdirs/eflash/flash58)
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HEADLINE
1- 2nd MEDA Water Regional Event on Local Water Management, Marrakech (Morocco): 28-30 April 2008
IN BRIEF
2- Morocco: Accountability for Better Water Management Results
3- Algeria: Biwater wins US$115m Algerian reverse osmosis desalination contract
4- Algeria: Befesa wins contract to build Algerian desalination plant
5- Malta: Briny future for vulnerable Malta
6- Spain: Fusion of Ministries of Agriculture and Environment
7- Spain: The Ebro-Barcelona water transfer challenged by Murcia and Valencia
8- Israel: Water usage from natural sources down since 1967
9- Jordan will struggle for water this summer
10- Jordan: The Right to Water
11- Turkey: Hopes Fade for Turkish Water as a Strategic Asset
12- Turkey, Iraq, Syria to initiate water talks by establishing a water institute
13- Middle East: $120b to flow into water projects
14- Saudi Arabia: Expansion plans for water projects
15- Is this the beginning of water wars?
16- Does your country wish to host the next World Water Forum in March 2012?
17- Horizon 2020: Helping protect the Mediterranean Sea from pollution
18- Adapting to the impacts of global changes on river basins and aquifer systems
19- UN Human Rights Council creates Independent Expert on the human right to water and sanitation
20- LIFE project: Advancing wastewater treatment in rural areas
21- MEEDDAT-WWC: Towards the establishment of a worldwide water observation mechanism
22- A new INBO project on testing performance indicators of integrated water resources management
23- The Water-Energy-Climate Change Nexus
24- Scientists Predict More Floods, Droughts
25- Contract signed for ESA’s Sentinel-3 earth observation satellite
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