Wednesday, February 10, 2010
International Day of River
March 14, 2010, the International Day of River is fast approaching. What should we do to help our Rivers to Flow?
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
International River Day - Mar 14
International Day of Action for Rivers
Taking Action for Rivers on March 14
* Learn more about 2009 actions by region
* Check out the 2009 International Day of Action for Rivers photo gallery
* Follow the Day of Action for Rivers blog
Reclaim Our Rivers, Our Rights in 2010!
We invite you, our friends and colleagues around the world to stand up on March 14, 2010, and participate in the 13th annual International Day of Action Against Dams and for Rivers, Water and Life.
Celebrate
Our collective international movement has made huge strides in protecting the world’s rivers and the rights of communities who depend on them. In June, our colleagues in Mexico succeeded in securing a significant delay on La Parota Dam. Strong Kenyan opposition to Ethiopia’s Gibe 3 Dam has deterred international funders from approving financing for the project. And in October, community activists celebrated their victorious campaign to stop a dam on the Mary River in Australia when the government cancelled the project.
Reclaim Our Rivers, Our Rights
Despite these successes, we still face serious challenges. The hydropower industry is planning to release a new protocol that could greenwash hydropower and undermine the rights of dam-affected communities to participate in development decisions. Southern financiers, like Brazil and China, are increasingly funding dams that threaten some of the world’s most amazing rivers, which have supported communities for generations.
We urge you to join thousands of dam-affected people and their allies around the world under a unifying message of "Our Rivers, Our Rights." Together, our voices are stronger.
* Together, we will demand reparations for people affected by existing dams.
* Together, we will insist that dams do not proceed without the consent of affected communities.
* Together, we will press for better solutions to meet our water and energy needs than big, destructive dams.
* Together, we will raise our voices on March 14, 2010 to reclaim our rivers and our rights.
Taking Action for Rivers on March 14
* Learn more about 2009 actions by region
* Check out the 2009 International Day of Action for Rivers photo gallery
* Follow the Day of Action for Rivers blog
Reclaim Our Rivers, Our Rights in 2010!
We invite you, our friends and colleagues around the world to stand up on March 14, 2010, and participate in the 13th annual International Day of Action Against Dams and for Rivers, Water and Life.
Celebrate
Our collective international movement has made huge strides in protecting the world’s rivers and the rights of communities who depend on them. In June, our colleagues in Mexico succeeded in securing a significant delay on La Parota Dam. Strong Kenyan opposition to Ethiopia’s Gibe 3 Dam has deterred international funders from approving financing for the project. And in October, community activists celebrated their victorious campaign to stop a dam on the Mary River in Australia when the government cancelled the project.
Reclaim Our Rivers, Our Rights
Despite these successes, we still face serious challenges. The hydropower industry is planning to release a new protocol that could greenwash hydropower and undermine the rights of dam-affected communities to participate in development decisions. Southern financiers, like Brazil and China, are increasingly funding dams that threaten some of the world’s most amazing rivers, which have supported communities for generations.
We urge you to join thousands of dam-affected people and their allies around the world under a unifying message of "Our Rivers, Our Rights." Together, our voices are stronger.
* Together, we will demand reparations for people affected by existing dams.
* Together, we will insist that dams do not proceed without the consent of affected communities.
* Together, we will press for better solutions to meet our water and energy needs than big, destructive dams.
* Together, we will raise our voices on March 14, 2010 to reclaim our rivers and our rights.
Glimpses of IRBM researches/approaches around the World
Twin2Go in a nutshell
Twin2Go reviews, consolidates, and synthesises research on integrated water resources management (IWRM) in basins around the world. Over the past years, the EU has funded several projects that undertook research on specific IWRM issues in case studies carried out on twinned river basins in Europe and in developing countries. The aim of Twin2Go now is to draw policy relevant research results on issues around ‘adaptive water governance in the context of climate change’ and to make them transferable to other basins.
The consolidated outcomes will feed into best practice guidelines for the implementation of adaptive water governance. To ensure up-take of the research results in water resources management practice and political decision making, all synthesis activities will involve stakeholders from the projects and basins and outcomes will be effectively disseminated to all relevant levels of target groups including high level decision makers in water policy.
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