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Our session Med 4.2 on “Sustainable cost recovery (SCR) for sanitation services” during the 6th World Water Forum in Marseille. will take place on Wednesday 14 March - 8:30 / 10:30. But the location has just changed, it will take place now room Peu 1 – Europa 1 &gt; Palais de l’Europe.



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°100, May 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;
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&lt;p style="font-size: 22px; font-family: Arial, verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="/documents/meetings/events/wwf6/" target="_new"&gt;6th World Water Forum (WWF), Marseille 12-17 March 2012&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 22px;"&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;a href="/documents/meetings/events/wwf6/mediterranean-cross-continental-process" target="_new"&gt;Mediterranean cross-continental process Sessions at the 6th WWF&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong style="font-family: Arial, verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="/documents/meetings/events/wwf6/med-side-events" target="_new"&gt;Mediterranean Side Events at the 6th WWF&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="/documents/meetings/events/wwf6/emwis-wwf6" target="_new"&gt;EMWIS Sessions at the 6th WWF&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="/documents/meetings/events/wwf6/arab/" target="_new"&gt;Arab Countries Cross-Continental Process&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="/documents/meetings/events/wwf6/med-side-events/wana-forum-side-event-regional-solution-water-scarcity-west-asia-north-africa/" target="_new"&gt;WANA Forum side event: Regional Solution for Water Scarcity in West Asia-North Africa&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="/documents/meetings/events/wwf6/med-side-events/medrc-side-event-at-the-6th-world-water-forum-under-the-mediterranean-cross" target="_new"&gt;MEDRC Side Event&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #557595; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="/documents/meetings/events/wwf6/special-med/" target="_new"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Special Session: "Mediterranean Water Forum: From Marrakech to Marseille &amp;amp; the Future&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #557595; font-weight: bold; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="/documents/meetings/events/wwf6/special-med/" target="_new"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;16 March 2012 (11h - 13h)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="/documents/meetings/events/wwf6/forum-plan" target="_new"&gt;Forum Plan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p style="font-size: 22px;"&gt;&lt;a href="/documents/meetings/events/wwf6/mediterranean-cross-continental-process/med-4.2" target="_new"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Our&amp;nbsp;session Med 4.2 on &amp;ldquo;&lt;strong&gt;Sustainable cost recovery (SCR) for sanitation services&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;rdquo;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;during the&amp;nbsp;6&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt;&amp;nbsp;World Water Forum in Marseille. will take place on&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Wednesday 14 March - 8:30 / 10:30.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;But the location has just changed, it will take place now room&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;a href="/documents/meetings/events/wwf6/mediterranean-cross-continental-process/med-4.2" target="_new"&gt;Peu 1 &amp;ndash; Europa 1 &amp;gt; Palais de l&amp;rsquo;Europe&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&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;p style="font-size: 11px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="/thematicdirs/leaflet/countries-water-profiles"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'arial black', 'avant garde';"&gt;W&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;ater institutional framework of Mediterranean countries&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&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/flash100" target="_new"&gt;EMWIS Flash N&amp;deg;100, May 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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