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Symposium: Urban Water and Coastal Zone Management in Sri Lanka

On 28 November  Cap-Net Lanka in collaboration with the Postgraduate Institute of Agriculture (PGIA), Water Resources Science and Technology (WRST) and Lanka Jalani (Sri Lanka Water Partnership) organised the Urban Water and Coastal Zone Management Symposium at the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Colombo, Sri Lanka. The activity was aligned with UNDP’s “Water and Ocean …

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Stimulating innovative water education: Launch of the Panjwani-Hisaar Water Institute Academic Programme

From 30 August to 3 September, the Panjwani-Hisaar Water Institute (PHWI) successfully completed its first course on ‘WATER LAW’ launching in this way the institute’s academic programme. The course was spread over 5 days and it was supported by Cap-Net Pakistan. Among the 40 participants were lawyers, water practitioners, researchers, journalists and policy makers. The …

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Strengthening water knowledge through working in partnership

On the 30 October 2019 the Global Water Partnership South Asia and Cap-Net, in collaboration with partners, delivered a session on a proposed “Delta Knowledge Hub: Innovative Platform for South-South Knowledge Exchange” at the Dhaka Water Knowledge Days 2019 (DWKD).

El Salvador: Learning on evapotranspiration rates in climate change scenarios

On 25-27 September, the Central American Network of Engineering Institutions (REDICA) members were trained on evapotranspiration rates in climate change scenarios. Members learnt to understand and run different tools to determinate the water needs for crops irrigation. The workshop was run in San Salvador city, El Salvador, in collaboration with Cap-Net.