News and Events

(last updated March 5, 2007)

The Project was launched in April 2005 with the Inception Workshop, which was announced and described in the CP Newsletter “Water and Food Monthly,” April, 2005 (PDF 199Kb). 

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Up-coming Summary Workshop

The 2006-2007 cycle of the Training and Research Program on Groundwater Governance in Theory and Practice has concluded its research phase where the fellows went to the field in their respective home countries to investigate groundwater conditions, issues and management challenges or to the USA or Australia to get a first hand understanding of similar issues from a developed country perspective.

The culmination and conclusion of the program is the Summary Workshop, taking place from March 19-30 in New Delhi, with the participation of all the fellows and the team of researchers and resource persons involved in the program, as well as CPWF representatives.

The program of the Workshop is actually divided into two parts:

• The Writing Workshop, March 19-26

• The Summary Workshop, March 27-30

The Writing Workshop involves the guided preparation of final outputs from the fellow research phase, the writing of group research papers and the rehearsal of the plenum presentations of the group papers from the various eight village locations within the two major river basins under investigation, namely, the Yellow River Basin/North China Plains and the Indus-Ganges Basin.

The subsequent Summary Workshop involves the presentation, discussion and contrasting of all research findings across the regions, the forward looking of how to synthesize these results and publishing them in international scientific publications, and further collaboration across the group of participants for future improved groundwater governance.  Finally, a session will be dedicated to the evaluation of the whole training and research program with a view to improving and adjusting the second cycle to commence shortly.

Fellows in the news

Excerpt from UniSA News (Newsletter of the University of South Australia), February/March 2007 issue