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Integrated Water Resources Management Workshop

On January 28 and 29, 2010, the WSSS program hosted seven water professionals from China for a workshop on Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM). The workshop featured presentations and discussions led by WSSS faculty members, graduate students, and local water experts.Click the links below to download presentations from the workshop.

Thursday, January 28, 2010
Time		Event
	8:30 - 9:00	Arrival and Continental Breakfast
	9:00 - 9:30	Welcome, Introduction to Workshop, and Self-Introductions Vincent Manno, Professor and Associate Provost, Tufts School of Engineering Richard Vogel, Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Tufts University
	9:30 - 10:15	Discussions on River Basin Management in China Richard Vogel, Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Tufts University
	10:15 - 10:30	Refreshments and Break
	10:30 - 11:30	Water and Economics (1.06 MB) Annette Huber-Lee, Visiting Scholar, Tufts School of Engineering See also: Franklin M Fisher and Annette Huber-Lee. "Economics, Water Management, and Conflict Resolution in the Middle East and Beyond." Environment 48:3 (April 1, 2006) 26-41, 2. Rogers, Peter, Ramesh Bhatia, and Annetter Huber. Water as a Social and Economic Good: How to Put the Principle into Practice. Stockholm: Global Water Partnership Technical Advisory Committee, 1998.
	11:30 - 12:30	International Resilience Research: Policy & Practice (1.28 MB) Astier Almedom, Professor of the Practice, Tufts University
	12:30 - 1:15	Lunch
	1:15 - 2:00	Follow-up Discussions
	2:00 - 3:30	CUAHSI Water Data Services (5.92 MB) Richard P. Hooper, Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of the Hydrological Sciences
	3:30 - 3:45	Refreshments and Break
	3:45 - 4:00	An Introduction to WSSS (328 KB)   WSSS Research Examples, 2009 (3.86 MB) Richard Vogel, Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Tufts University
	4:00 - 5:30	Presentations by Current WSSS Students   Impact of Technical Assistance on Drinking Water Supply Safety and Sustainability: El Salvador (1.65 MB) Georgia Kayser, Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University   Resource Management and Water Quality in Rural East Africa (9.39 MB) Ayron Strauch, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Tufts University   Analysis of Water Conflicts Across National and Societal Boundaries (1.41 MB) Yongxuan Gao, School of Engineering, Tufts University
	5:30 - 7:30	Reception

Chinese delegates discuss the presentations on the first day of the workshop.

Friday, January 29, 2010
Time		Event
	8:30 - 9:00	Arrival and Continental Breakfast
	9:00 - 10:30	IWRM and Urban Climate Change Adaptation (4.12 MB) Paul Kirshen, Battelle Memorial Institute
	10:30 - 10:45	Break and Refreshments
	10:45 - 11:30	Follow-up Discussions on IWRM Paul Kirshen, Battelle Memorial Institute
	11:30 - 12:30	Discussion with Chinese Delegates on Planning for IWRM
	12:30 - 1:15	Lunch
	1:15 - 2:30	Water Evaluation and Planning System (2.95 MB) Jack Sieber, Stockholm Environment Institute - US Center For more information on the WEAP model, visit www.weap21.org Read WEAP case studies and journal articles
	2:30 - 3:30	Water and People (9.97 MB) Richard Vogel, Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Tufts University
	3:30 - 4:00	Workshop Summary - Future Collaborations
	4:00 - 5:00	Reception and Farewells

Students, faculty and visitors break from morning presentations at the Sophia Gordon Hall multi-purpose room.

The Water: Systems, Science and Society (WSSS) program is a graduate research and education program that provides Tufts students with interdisciplinary perspectives and tools to manage water-related problems around the world.

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