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UNESCO-IHE was present at the World Water Week, that took place from 12 to 18 August in Stockholm, Sweden. This year, the Institute contributed to a panel that discussed how to Bridge the Gap in Research and Education: Addressing Issues in Countries with a Vulnerable Scientific Environment.

Does the private sector have a contributing role to help meet the sanitation target of the MGDs? UNESCO-IHE held a conference on the 6th of July in which the role of the private sector to help meet the sanitation targets was assessed and discussed.

On July 26, Kwabena Biritwum Nyarko successfully defended his PhD thesis “Drinking Water Sector in Ghana: Drivers for performance”. His promotion was unique in the sense that it was the first in cooperation with the Institute of Social Studies (ISS). Professors van Dijk (UNESCO-IHE) and Bert He...

His Royal Highness Prince Willem Alexander, Chairman of the UN Secretary-General's Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation, closed the Celebration Ceremony of UNESCO-IHE’ 50th anniversary.

The second day of the Symposium Water for a Changing World: Enhancing Local knowledge and Capacity showed that the 250 participants, many of them practitioners and academics, had a good picture into the current water scenario, its problems and challenges.

The Vice Minister of Transport, Public Works and Water Management of The Netherlands, Ms J.C. Huizinga-Heringa, signified on Wednesday 13 the duty of developed countries to contribute to the development of less developed countries.

On the occasion of its 50th anniversary, from 13 to 15 June 2007, UNESCO-IHE is organising a three-day symposium entitled:‘Water for a Changing World: Enhancing Local Knowledge and Capacity’.

The Awarding and Closing Ceremony for the Academic year of 2005-2007, which took place on Thursday 26 April 2007 at the Museum Prinsenhof in Delft, was an opportunity to look back at events from the last 18 months. This year, a total of 151 participants representing over 35 different nationalit...

Mayank Mithaiwala is a sanitary engineer working for the Municipal Corporation of Surat in India and an alumnus of UNESCO-IHE. During his studies, he developed a novel attempt to combine the model for wastewater treatment by activated sludge (called ASM) and the model for sludge treatment (ADM).

On the occasion of its 50th anniversary, from 13 to 15 June 2007, UNESCO-IHE is organising a three-day symposium entitled:‘Water for a Changing World: Enhancing Local Knowledge and Capacity’.