News and Events

(last updated May 4, 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). 

Read the latest newsletter of the Challenge Program on Water and Food.

GGA presence at the recently concluded Stockholm World Water Week 2007

A poster and a short presentation of the GGA Training and Research Program was given as part of the workshop on ‘Building Capacities for Future Challenges’. This workshop was chaired by the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), Capacity Building for Integrated Water Resources Management (Cap-Net), United Nations University, Bonn (UNU), and Centre for Science and Environment (CSE).

Prof. Kun Zhu, Center of Water Resources and Environment Technology, School of Environmental & Municipal Engineering, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China, Lizzy Okoro, Doctoral student of hydro-geology from Nigeria and Karen Villholth

Second Training Course

The second "Training and Research Course on Groundwater Governance in Theory and Practice" will  commence in November 2007.  For more details and application forms.