Events
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18-20 Mar 2024 – Bogotá, Colombia
Semana Técnica del Agua Subterránea 2024
The Asociación Colombiana de Hidrogeólogos (ACH) is pleased to invite the entire groundwater student community to submit their work to the Groundwater Technical Week 2024 - STAS 2024.
This event will be free for students and members of the organizing associations (ACH, IAHR, NGWA, and Interpore). STAS 2024 will take place in Bogotá from March 18 to 20, 2024. The venue will be shared among the University of the Andes, Pontifical Javeriana University, and National University of Colombia.
The central conference of the event will be the Darcy Lecture by NGWA, presented by Prof. Matt Becker from California State University in the United States. The event will feature keynote speeches from IDEAM, ANLA, SDA, and ANH.
Submit your abstract now and register on our website: https://sites.google.com/view/stas2024
The best presentations will be awarded, and their work will be published by IAHR.
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La Asociación Colombiana de Hidrogeólogos se permite invitar a toda la comunidad estudiantil del agua subterránea a presentar sus trabajos en la Semana Técnica del Agua Subterránea 2024 - STAS 2024.
Este evento será gratuito para estudiantes y socios de las asociaciones organizadoras (ACH, IAHR, NGWA e Interpore). La STAS 2024 será realizada en Bogotá entre el 18 y el 20 de marzo de 2024. La sede será compartida entre las Universidades de los Andes, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana y Nacional de Colombia.
La conferencia central del evento será la Cátedra Darcy de la NGWA, presentada por el Prof. Matt Becker de California State University en Estados Unidos. El evento contará con conferencias magistrales del IDEAM, ANLA, SDA y ANH.
Envíe su resumen ya e inscríbase en nuestro portal web:
https://sites.google.com/view/stas2024
Las mejores ponencias serán premiadas y su trabajo será publicado por la IAHR.
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Organised by IAH Colombia National Chapter (ACH), IAHR, NGWA, and Interpore.
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22 Mar 2024 – PALAPYE, BOTSWANA
WATER IN SEMI ARID ENVIRONMENTS ” OUR WATER, OUR PEACE”
HYDROGEODAY PALAPYE, BOTSWANA EXPLORING GROUNDWATER RESOURCES IN ARID ENVIRONMENT
The Hydrogeoday event in Botswana is proposed to be held at the main ward (Kgotla) in Palapye Botswana. Keynote speakers for the event will include village leaders or stakeholders, a representative from the Department of Water and Sanitation, Water Utilities Corporation and Botswana Climate Change Network. The objective of this event will be to raise awareness on the importance of groundwater resources, the current water challenges in Botswana and climate change impacts on groundwater resources.
Proposed Activities
1.Presentation
2. Panel discussion
3.Practical field demonstrations lead by organisers
Proposed program Schedule
MC: Organiser Ms TL Chaba
8:00 am - 9:00 am: Registration of participants
9:00 am - 9:15 am: Opening Ceremony
Welcome remarks by Kgosi
Overview of Hydrogeoday Botswana Chief organiser Ms Obuseng
9:15 am - 10:00 am: Keynote Speech
"Challenges and Opportunities in Botswana's Hydrogeology"
Speaker: Hydrogeologist, Department of Water Affairs
Water Security and Climate Change Adaptation.
Discussions on strategies for ensuring water security in the face of climate change impacts in Botswana
Speaker: Botswana Climate Change Network
10:00 am - 10:45 am: Panel Discussion
"Sustainable Management of Groundwater Resources in Botswana"
Panelists: Representatives Water Utilities Corporation, student from Biust and a Lecture.
10:45 am - 11:00 am: Break
11:00 am-1pm Practical demonstration: participants are offered the opportunity to manage field equipment and perform measurements "in situ". This allows them to experience ‘first-hand’ the work of a hydrogeologist. The team plan to use one of the boreholes in Palapye to demonstrate this.
Closing Remarks: Volunteer
Note: This program schedule offers a blend of informative sessions, interactive workshops, and a field trip, providing participants with a comprehensive understanding of hydrogeology in Botswana. Adjustments can be made based on specific speakers, and preferences of the organizers and participants.Price: Free
Organised by Ms Phatsimo J Obuseng (Leader), Ms Tshenolo L Chaba (Assistant leader), Mr Leruo K Gareosenye, Mr Desmond Botsisang, Ms Tumisang Thekiso.
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22 Mar 2024 – Salón de Actos ETSIME-UPM
World Water Day 2024 – Spanish Chapter of the IAH (AIH-GE)
The Spanish Chapter of the IAH (AIH-GE) is set to mark World Water Day with a poignant event hosted at the School of Mines (University Polytechnic of Madrid). Against the backdrop of a profound drought gripping the country, the AIH-GE aims to shed light on the pressing issues surrounding water scarcity through a series of insightful conferences. Experts will delve into the far-reaching implications of the drought on groundwater, exploring its environmental, social, and economic ramifications. Central to the event there will be a thought-provoking debate, inviting attendees to engage in discourse on potential strategies to mitigate the crisis and safeguard water resources for future generations.
Following, the AIH-GE will proudly present the coveted AIH-GE awards from 2023.
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A las 11:00h, en el Salón de Actos de la Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Minas y Energía de la UPM
Ven a celebrar con la AIH-GE el día mundial del agua:
debatiremos sobre el gran problema que vive nuestro país por la sequía y su efecto en las aguas subterráneas.
Además, haremos entrega de los premios AIH-GE 2023
Parte 1ª de la jornada: Conferencias SEQUÍA Y AGUA SUBTERRÁNEA
11:00 am
“De la sequía meteorológica a la sequía de recursos hídricos: interacción entre el hombre y el ciclo del agua” Santiago Beguería (Estación Experimental de Aula Dei EEAD-CSIC, Zaragoza)
“Sequía y aguas subterráneas” Enric Vàzquez-Suñé (Instituto de Diagnóstico Ambiental y Estudios del Agua (IDAEA-CSIC, Barcelona)
“Sequía y aguas subterráneas: desafíos y respuestas” Julio Berbel (Dpto. Grupo WEARE, Universidad de Córdoba)
“Planes de sequía” Luis Martínez Cortina (Dirección General del Agua)
Parte 2ª de la jornada: Entrega de PREMIOS DEL GRUPO ESPAÑOL DE LA ASOCIACIÓN INTERNACIONAL DE HIDROGEÓLOGOS
1:00 pm
Premio Alfons Bayó para jóvenes investigadores: Lucía Ojeda
Premio AIH-GE a la trayectoria profesional en hidrogeología y sus aplicaciones en España: Juana Baeza
Premio a la labor desinteresada en el impulso y desarrollo de la hidrogeología: Antonio Castillo Martín.Organised by AIH - Spanish Chapter.
https://minasyenergia.upm.es/00-escuela/7025-d%C3%ADa-mundial-del-agua.html
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22 Mar 2024 – UNESCO Headquarters, Paris and Online
Water for Peace: official celebration of World Water Day 2024
Water for Peace. World Water Day, held on 22 March every year since 1993, is an annual United Nations Observance focusing on the importance of freshwater. A core focus of World Water Day is to support the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 6: water and sanitation for all by 2030.
We are pleased to invite you for a significant event hosted at UNESCO Headquarters on Thursday, 22 March 2024, from 13:00 to 18:30 (CET), to commemorate World Water Day 2024. Under the theme of "Water for Peace", the event will showcase water's pivotal role in fostering peace, prosperity, and conflict prevention.
The day's program will feature an array of activities, including the launch of the United Nations World Water Development Report 2024, speeches by representatives of UN agencies, member states and experts in the field. This will be followed by panel discussions that delve into the nexus between water management and peacebuilding. There will also be cultural and artistic activities that echo the theme, including an indoor photo exhibition and live performances.
For those unable to attend in-person, a live webcast is available at: https://webcast.unesco.org/events/2024-03-WWDR-2024/
We welcome the participation of members of governments, international organisations, NGOs, academia, the private sector, and all stakeholders interested in the sustainable management of water resources and the promotion of peace. Registration is mandatory to participate in-person; the link below can be used to register. Deadline for registration is 20th of March 2024, 11:59 pm.Organised by UNESCO in partnership with UNECE, and on behalf of UN-Water.
https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/water-peace-official-celebration-world-water-day-2024
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25 Mar 2024 – Online
AIDA World Water Day Webinar – The Role of Water Law for Fostering Water for Peace
Water for Peace. The International Association for Water Law (AIDA) is hosting a webinar on World Water Day 2024. The objective of the webinar is to contribute to the campaign Water for Peace by addressing how water law, at the domestic and international levels, has been and can continue to be used to facilitate water as a means for achieving peace, and can contribute to good water cooperation and governance. Lawyers and hydrologists will provide an interdisciplinary perspective and engage on this important topic of promoting and achieving peace through water. You can register for this event at the link below, which begins on 25 March at 10am NYC | 3pm Paris.
Price: Free
Organised by AIDA, in collaboration with UN-Water.
http://https://tamu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUvf--prjkoE9zxEBH36QfOfOZfQK_i-mJN#/registration
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16-17 Apr 2024 – Tullamore Court Hotel, O’Moore Street, Tullamore, Co. Offaly, Ireland
IAH (Irish Group) Annual Conference 2024
Nature Based Solutions. The theme of this year’s IAH (Irish Group) conference is Groundwater & Nature Based Solutions. We have an interesting, wide ranging and informative programme that will offer insight, experience, guidance, suggestions and ideas related to this topical and important theme.
Nature Based Solutions is an approach that promotes nature as a means for providing solutions to clumate mitigation and adaptation challenges, and the concept is at the core of EU policies and frameworks. There are numerous definitions and meanings of the concept, but fundamentally it is about linking positive outcomes for society with the notion of nature as a means of achieving the outcomes (Nesshover et al 2017); hydrogeologists have been working in this sphere for decades!
Some speakers will offer practical perspectives and experiences on issues related to groundwater – covering case and site studies, as well as insights into complexities of groundwater behaviour in particular environments (river channels and floodplains, urban settings, coastal and near shore zones); others will offer insights from deep systems, from peatlands, and from the machine learning perspective that will be invaluable to practitioners in Ireland and overseas.
The early career hydrogeologists will present posters and our two keynote speakers (Minister of State Malcolm Noonan TD, and Dr Catherine Farrell) will give the conference framing contexts.
The Eventbrite link for the conference is now open: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/44th-annual-iah-irish-group-conference-tickets-852208437377.Price: €85 – €265
Organised by IAH (Irish Group).
https://www.iah-ireland.org/annual-conference/ conference@iah-ireland.org
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23-24 Apr 2024 – Tehran, Iran
Groundwater governance: lessons learned, challenges and solutions
Regional Hybrid Training Workshop on “Groundwater governance". Contributing more than 50% in providing water for economic, social, and cultural processes, groundwater resources are highly valuable in Iran. However, climate change, prolonged droughts, and excessive overexploitation have threatened the sustainability of these strategic resources. Therefore, a paradigm shift towards conservation and optimal use of groundwater resources is vital. Sustainability of groundwater for different purposes is related to its system of governance and management. The science of groundwater governance is an emergent knowledge which can be enhanced through sharing experiences and dialogue among practitioners from different regions and countries.
Hybrid format: on-site and on-line.
The workshop counts on IAH-MAR Commission speakers, who have assisted RCUWM in the organization of the event.Organised by RCUWM-UNESCO.
https://rcuwm.ir/news/groundwater-governance-lessons-learned-challenges-and-solutions/ info [at] rcuwm.org.ir
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27-28 May 2024 – Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), Sde Boqer Campus, Israel
International Water Summit
The Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research (ZIWR) is pleased to announce the 2024 International Water Summit and the awarding of the Zuckerberg Water Prize during May 27–28, 2024, at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), Sde Boqer Campus, Israel.
This biannual Water Summit will assemble leading scholars from around the world in the broad field of water science and technology, and will cover four main topics related to water scarcity in a changing world – Climate Change & Water Resources; Emerging Contaminants in Water; Water Challenges in the Developing World; and Watec: Water Technologies.
The summit will address applied and fundamental questions related to the nexus of water, humanity, and the environment. Discussions will be held on cutting-edge research, related challenges, and future directions as well as implications for policy makers. The summit will also include roundtable discussions with active participation from the audience. Researchers that would like to share their studies can submit an abstract for a poster session.
The Zuckerberg Water Prize (sum of USD 60,000) will be awarded during the Water Summit to acknowledge outstanding achievements and global impact of an individual or organization in the broader field of water. The biannual award is endorsed by ZIWR, a leading global institute conducting cutting-edge multidisciplinary research and advanced education in water sciences to improve human well-being and in drylands through technologies and policies for the sustainable use of water resources. ZIWR is accepting nominations for this award for the inaugural round of 2024, with a deadline of March 1, 2024. Among the members on the Prize Committee are Prof. Noam Weisbrod (Director, The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research [BIDR], BGU, Israel), Prof. Menachem Elimelech (Yale University, USA), Prof. Janet Hering (Director, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology [Eawag], Switzerland), Prof. Amit Gross (Director, ZIWR, BIDR, BGU, Israel), and Dr. Karen G. Villholth (Principal Researcher and Groundwater Coordinator, International Water Management Institute [IWMI], South Africa), Prof. Ashok Gadgil; Dr. Karen G. Willholth (Principal Researcher with IWMI, SA).
Information regarding registration and poster presentation can be found here. https://www.watersummitziwr.com/.Organised by The Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research (ZIWR), Ben Gurion University, Israel.
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10-15 Jun 2024 – Sapienza University of Rome, Main Campus, Rome, Italy
Eurokarst 2024
Biannual international conference on karst hydrogeology. The next edition of the biannual international conference on karst hydrogeology EUROKARST, with hundreds participants worldwide, will be organized in Rome-Italy, after the usual places of Neuchatel-Swiss, Besancon-France, and Malaga-Spain. The conference is aimed at presenting the last news on hydrogeological research on karst aquifers and to discuss about groundwater, a fundamental resource for human being, societal development and environmental protection.
EUROKARST 2024 will be co-organized by the Sapienza University of Rome, the University Aldo Moro of Bari and the Sannio University of Benevento, with the support of the Italian Chapter of IAH (International Association of Hydrogeologists), and it will be hosted in the main campus of Sapienza University, central Rome, between June 10 and 14, 2024.
The Chairs of the Organizing Committee
Francesco Fiorillo (Chair, University of Sannio, Benevento, Italy) francesco.fiorillo@unisannio.it
Mario Parise (Chair, University Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy) mario.parise@uniba.it
Marco Petitta (Chair, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) marco.petitta@uniroma1.it.Price: to be announced
Organised by Aldo Moro University Bari, Sannio University Benevento, Sapienza University, Rome, IAH Italian Chapter.
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17-20 Jun 2024 – Burlingame/San Francisco, California
Toward Sustainable Groundwater in Agriculture – Linking Science and Policy
3rd International Conference on groundwater issues in agriculture/food production; global groundwater-food-ecosystem nexus. This three-day international conference with a pre-conference workshop day will bring together leading scientists, policy analysts, policy and decision makers, and agricultural and environmental stakeholder representatives from around the world to define and highlight the science of and the challenges in agricultural groundwater resources management and groundwater quality protection. The conference will also offer a forum to identify promising technical and policy solutions that provide a sustainable future for groundwater and food production at regional, national, and global scales.
Around the globe, groundwater is the lifeline for many rural and agricultural regions and their associated cultures and populations. It is also a cornerstone of global food production. Groundwater constitutes nearly half the world's drinking water and much of the world's irrigation water supply. In many regions, groundwater provides significant resilience to drought. Climate change, population growth, overexploitation, salinization and nonpoint source (diffuse) pollution from agricultural activities (including animal farming, ranching, and forestry activities) have exacerbated groundwater quality and quantity conflicts within agricultural regions, at the urban-rural interface, at the agriculture-environment nexus, and extend to the groundwater-surface water interface. Loss of drought resiliency, increased groundwater production costs, falling water tables, well outages, land subsidence, seawater intrusion, loss of groundwater-dependent ecosystems including entire wetland, lake, and streams systems, and extensive surface water pollution from groundwater return flows have reached global dimensions and threaten the health and livelihood of this planet.
Within the water-energy-food-ecosystem nexus, this conference specifically highlights the real world challenges, science, solutions, and emerging policies centered around the multi-faceted, inter- and transdisciplinary interface between groundwater and agriculture.
Abstracts can be submitted for both oral and poster presentations. SUBMIT ABSTRACTS BY 31 JANUARY 2024.Organised by University of California Davis, Water Education Foundation.