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1st Mediterranean Water Forum

Water institutional framework of Mediterranean countries





Union for the Mediterranean - Water sector website
Mediterranean Water Information Mechanism
Water Information System for Europe
Med Joint Process: Water quality monitoring working group meeting, Madrid, 10th November 2010
14th EMWIS Steering Committee meeting, 3rd december 2010 in Firenze (IT)
27 May 2010 - For'UM - Marseille


EMWIS Flash N°96, January 2012EMWIS Book (From Marseille 1996 to Florence 2010)EMWIS Newsletter, December 2010 EMWIS Newsletter, April 2010





Towards a National Water Information System in Morocco, 25/11/2010Towards a National Water Information System in Turkey, Dec'2010Towards a National Water Information System in Syria, 20/12/2010


Towards a National Water Information System in Jordan, 20/10/2010 Towards a National Water Information System in Egypt, 27/10/2010Towards a National Water Information System in Palestine, 23/11/2010</description><dc:description>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11px;"&gt;&#13;
&lt;h1 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0em; margin-bottom: 0.3em; margin-left: 0em; font-family: Arial, verdana, sans-serif; position: relative; font-size: 22px; color: #557595; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="/documents/meetings/events/wwf6/" target="_new"&gt;6th World Water Forum, Marseille 12-17 March 2012&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#13;
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&lt;p style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="/documents/meetings/events/wwf6" target="_new" title="WWF6, Marseille March 2012"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 60px; height: 106px; margin: 0px;" src="/images/logo-Forum6_04_91462967ef.jpg" alt="" width="60" height="106" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;h1 style="text-align: -webkit-center;"&gt;&lt;a href="/documents/meetings/events/wwf6/med" target="_new"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;1st Mediterranean Water Forum&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#13;
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&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ufm-water.net" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Union for the Mediterranean - Water&lt;strong&gt; sector website&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;a href="/medwip"&gt;Mediterranean Water Information Mechanism&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://water.europa.eu/"&gt;Water Information System for Europe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;h2 style="font-size: 1.5em;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="/topics/watmon/meeting2010/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Med Joint Process: Water quality monitoring working group meeting, Madrid, 10th November 2010&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#13;
&lt;h2 style="font-size: 1.5em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="/documents/meetings/SC/SC14"&gt;14th EMWIS Steering Committee meeting, 3rd december 2010 in Firenze (IT)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#13;
&lt;h2 style="font-size: 1.5em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ufm-water.net/meetings/for-um"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;27 May 2010 - For'UM - Marseille&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#13;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0000ff;"&gt;&lt;a href="/thematicdirs/eflash/flash96" target="_new"&gt;EMWIS Flash N&amp;deg;96, January 2012&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000000;"&gt;&lt;a href="/thematicdirs/books/emwis-book_1996-2010_en-fr.pdf"&gt;EMWIS Book (From Marseille 1996 to Florence 2010)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="/thematicdirs/newsletter/emwis-newsletter7_en.pdf"&gt;EMWIS Newsletter, December 2010&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="/thematicdirs/newsletter/newsletter2010.pdf"&gt;EMWIS Newsletter, April 2010&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="/documents/meetings/fol791509/MA2010"&gt;Towards a National Water Information System in Morocco, 25/11/2010&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="/documents/meetings/fol791509/TR2010"&gt;Towards a National Water Information System in Turkey, Dec'2010&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="/documents/meetings/fol791509/SR2010"&gt;Towards a National Water Information System in Syria, 20/12/2010&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="/documents/meetings/fol791509/towards-national-water-information-system-jordan"&gt;Towards a National Water Information System in Jordan, 20/10/2010&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="/documents/meetings/fol791509/EG2010"&gt;Towards a National Water Information System in Egypt, 27/10/2010&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="/documents/meetings/fol791509/PS2010"&gt;Towards a National Water Information System in Palestine, 23/11/2010&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
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&lt;div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;"&gt;United Nations Statistics Division / SEEAW - Water Accounts&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
&lt;div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
&lt;div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;"&gt;The System of Environmental and Economic Accounting for Water (SEEAW) has been prepared by the&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
&lt;div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;"&gt;United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) in collaboration with the London Group on Environmental&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
&lt;div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;"&gt;Accounting, and in particular with its Sub-group on Water Accounting.&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
&lt;div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;"&gt;The preparation of the Handbook of National Accounting Integrated Environmental and Economic&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
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&lt;div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;"&gt;develop methodologies for water accounts. Although country experiences in water accounts at the time&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
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&lt;div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;"&gt;emerged. The section on water accounts in Chapter 8 of the SEEA-2003 is the first attempt to develop&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
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&lt;div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;"&gt;United Nations Statistics Division / SEEAW - Water Accounts&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
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&lt;div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;"&gt;Accounting, and in particular with its Sub-group on Water Accounting.&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
&lt;div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;"&gt;The preparation of the Handbook of National Accounting Integrated Environmental and Economic&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
&lt;div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;"&gt;Accounting -2003 (commonly referred to as SEEA-2003) provided an opportunity and a challenge to&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
&lt;div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;"&gt;develop methodologies for water accounts. Although country experiences in water accounts at the time&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
&lt;div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;"&gt;the SEEA-2003 was written, was limited, commonalities in the approaches to compile water accounts&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
&lt;div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;"&gt;emerged. The section on water accounts in Chapter 8 of the SEEA-2003 is the first attempt to develop&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
&lt;div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;"&gt;harmonized methodologies for water accounts.&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
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