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.

Water-play feature tells river basin story

Darren Bernhardt, The StarPhoenix

Published: Thursday, August 30, 2007

A Vancouver design company is installing fake rocks and pouring blue concrete rivers and lakes in Saskatoon to recreate a miniature Canadian West, replete with animal tracks and dinosaur fossils.

It's part of the interpretive river basin water-play feature at River Landing, which will feature the flora and fauna, industries, forts and trading posts that form the story of the Saskatchewan river basin, from the Rockies to the Canadian Shield.

The site covers about 30,000 square feet and is unlike anything being done in North America, said Susan Lamb, CEO of the Meewasin Valley Authority. "We wanted something unique and world-class," she said. "It will be a water-play area in summer and a piece of art 12 months of the year."

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