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Novatech'2004: A date has been set
The 5th International Conference on Innovative Technologies in Urban Drainage -Novatech'2004- will take place on 7-9 June, 2004 in Lyon, France. For further information, please visit www.graie.org

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IAHR Third World Membership Fund
IAHR has a good track record of assisting colleagues from a less developed country who are not able to bear the burden of regular membership. If you know anyone who might benefit from a two year free membership of IAHR, please contact Ms. Lara Incio at: membership@iahr.org. Proposes from an IAHR member should preferably be recommended.

New for the IAHR website
A detailed listing of International Water-related Organisations is now available on the IAHR website at www.iahr.org/e-library/testing.htm

Journal of Hydraulic Research:

JHR, Issue 3 (Vol. 40), 2002-including the Special Issue on Maritime Hydraulics, is now available online at:
www.iahr.org

Special Issue
- Wave propagation modelling in coastal engineering
by Philip L.-F. Liu, and Inigo J. Losada
-The joint probability of waves and water levels in coastal engineering design
by Peter J. Hawkes, Ben P. Gouldby, Jonathan A. Tawn, and Michael W. Owen
-Directional wave parameter interpretation and related statistical uncertainties
by Carl Trygve Stansberg
-Stochastic description of sea waves
by Constantine Memos, with contributions by K. Tzanis and K. Zographou
-Sleeve forces on inclined cylinders due to long and short crested waves
by V. Sundar, V. Vengatesan, and K.U. Graw
-Field and numerical comparisons of the RIBS floating breakwater
by M. Briggs, W. Ye, Z. Demirbilek, and J. Zhang

Regular Issue
- Flow analysis of the Arctic Ocean with a complicated density field
by Akira Wada
- Accuracy of solitary wave generation by a piston wave maker
by Guizien Katell, and Barthélemy Eric
-An experimental study on prevention of saline wedge intrusion by an air curtain in
rivers
by Masanori Nakai, and Masamitsu Arita
-Exchange flow through an opening
by David Z. Zhu, Hesham Fouli, and Yaw A. Okyere
-Large eddy simulation of dispersion in free surface shear flow
by C.W. Li, and J.H. Wang
-Combined-free flow over weirs and below gates
by Abdel-Azim M. Negm, A.M. Al-Brahim, and A.A. Alhamid
-Scour at culvert outlets as influenced by the turbulent flow structure
by Sarah L. Liriano, Rodney A. Day, and W. Rodney White

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parts of the world that are not yet inventoried by the Water Action Unit. If you have not yet checked the database, please visit
www.worldwatercouncil.org/search_actions.php and tell about any actions that may be missing, or about actions that have not been described as accurately as they might have.

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2nd MITCH Workshop
Advances in Flood Forecasting, Flood Warning and Emergency Management
June 10-12, 2002, Barcelona, Spain
E-mail: mitch@ehma.upc.es
Website: www.mitch-ec.net

Erosion and Sediment Transport Measurement: Technological and Methodological Advances
June 19-21, 2002, Oslo, Norway
Contact: Jim Bogen
E-mail: jbo@nve.no
Website: www.cig.ensmp.fr/~iahs/conferences/2002oslo.pdf

International Advanced Course on Water Resources Data Analysis: Data Processing, Interpreting and Design
July 1-16, 2002, Istanbul, Turkey
Registration deadline: June 10th, 2002
Contact: Dr. Mehmet E. Birpinar
E-mail: birpinar@yildiz.edu.tr

Hidroenergia 2002
July 3-6, 2002, Mulhouse, France
E-mail: esha@arcadis.be
Website: www.esha.be

River Flood Modelling Course
August 19-30, 2002, Glasgow, UK
The University of Glasgow is running a series of short one-day River Flood Modelling courses during the period 19th August to 30th August 2002. Participants can attend for anything from one day only, to the full 10-day
programme in any combination they require.
Website: http://cpd.civil.gla.ac.uk/

Economy, Environment and Society
World Forum on Sustainable Development. A Parallel Event for the UN World Summit on Sustainable Development
August 27-28, 2002 , Johannesburg, South Africa
Abstracts submission deadline: June 15th, 2002
E-mail: neville@irfd.org or info@irfd.org
Website: www.irfd.org

2nd International Symposium on Flood Defence (ISFD '2002)
September 10-13, 2002, Beijing, China
Website: www.irtces.org/isshhu/index.htm

ETMM5 -Engineering Turbulence Modelling and Measurments
September 16-18, 2002, Majorca, Spain
The conference programme is now ready, and can be downloaded from
www.unizar.es/etmm5/programme.html
For general information on the Conference, visit: www.unizar.es/etmm5

Water and Economy
September 24-26, 2002, Paris, France
Organised by the Société hydrotechnique de France
E-mail: shf@shf.asso.fr
Website: www.shf.asso.fr

XX IAHR-Latin American Division Congress
October 2-5, 2002, Havana, Cuba
Website: www.buroconv.cubaweb.cu/fichas/hidraulica/
XXCongreso.htm

Classics and Fashion in Fluid Machinery
October 18-20, 2002, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Deadline for papers submission: September 1, 2002
E-mail: classics@alfa.mas.bg.ac.yu
Website: http://BGweekend.mas.bg.ac.yu

International Conference on HydroDynamics
October 31- November 2, 2002, Tainan, Taiwan
E-mail: ichd2002@mail.ncku.edu.tw
Website: www.thl.ncku.edu.tw/ichd2002

From Conflict to Co-operation in International Water Resources Management
November 20-22, 2002, Delft, the Netherlands
Website: www.unesco.org/water/wwap/pccp/delft_second_circular.pdf

IAHR Africa Division Conference
December 11-13 , 2002, Arusha, Tanzania
Keynote speakers: Prof. Helmut Scheuerlein, and Prof. David Stephenson.
Please contact Prof. Mtalo at mtalo@wrep.udsm.ac.tz or Prof. Scheuerlein at wasserbau@uibk.ac.at for more detialed information.

Diffuse Input of Chemicals into Soil and Groundwater
February 26-28, 2003, Dresden, Germany
E-mail: workshop.igw@mailbox.tu-dresden.de
Website: www.tu-dresden.de/fghhigw/workshop/index.htm

2nd International Conference on Asian and Pacific Coasts -APAC 2003
September 7-11, 2003, Chiba, Japan
E-mail: nadaoka@mei.titach.ac.jp
Website: www.cvg.ynu.ac.jp/~cec/active/apa/

22nd IAHR Symposium on Hydraulic Machinery and Systems
June 29-July 2, 2004, Stockholm, Sweden
Website: www.swedpower.se/IAHR2004

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Agricultural Effects on Ground and Surface Waters: Research at the Edge of Science and Society
by Joop Steenvoorden, Frans Claessen and Jaap Willems
Publisher: IAHS; ISBN 1-901502-76-7; Publication date: April 2002; Price £63.50
This volume is an outcome of the International Conference on "Agricultural Effects on Ground and Surface Waters" (Wageningen, The Netherlands, October 2000). It addresses the prevention and reduction of water pollution and water scarcity caused by agricultural activities in northern Europe and North America. Nitrogen and phosphate compounds are a major focus. The themes: risk assessment by monitoring, model development, and decision support studies are considered at the levels at which policy development and water management take place: the agricultural production unit, the regional level, and the national level. It includes the Wageningen Statement, agreed by the conference participants, containing recommendations to governments and international organizations.
E-mail: cate@iahs.demon.co.uk
Website: www.cig.ensmp.fr/~iahs

Regional Water System Management -Water Conservation, Water Supply and System Integration
E. Cabrera, R. Cobacho, and J.R. Lund
Publisher: Balkema; ISBN: 90 5809 377 8; EUR 129,00; June 2002
The importance to implement sustainable water managements is actually out of discussion. That means to balance water resources and water uses mainly during drought peroiods. In other words the best equilibrium between supply and demand must be achieved. The natural territory to establish that balance is the watershed that, most of the times, is a region as well. This book contains invited lectures presented by well-known authors to the international seminar Regional Water Management -Water Conservation, Water Supply, System Integration held in Valencia (Spain) at the UIMP. The publication provides a general view of the basic water management principles for this 21st century, which are, certainly, very far from those of the 20th century.
Website: http://balkema.ima.nl/Scripts/cgiBalkema.exe/new

The European Water Industry: Market Drivers and Responses
by Lloyd Owen, D.
CWC Publishing, ISBN 1903050200,London, UK, Price: GBP 595 (EUR 967), Publication date: 2002
Presents in the first section an overview of the European water and wastewater market related to water resources, development of water services, market size and growth, water provision, and sewerage and sewage treatment. The second section focuses on market drivers. It looks at how the European water industry is affected by legislation and addresses the main European Union (EU) directives and their importance to the accession countries of Central and Eastern Europe. The third section deals with government responses, regulatory and legal structures, financing compliance, EBRD, EIB and EU initiatives, privatization, the private sector, PPPs in accession countries, multi-utilities and internationalisation, and the scope for competition in water and waste management.
E-mail: publishing@thecwcgroup.com
Website: www.thecwcgroup.com/reports/specific.epml

Friend 2002-Regional Hydrology: Bridging the Gap Between Research and Practice
by Henny A. J. van Lanen & Siegfried Demuth
co-editors: E. Servat, R. Ibbitt, C. Prudhomme, M. F. Bari, D. Hughes, M. del Carmen Llasat & S. H. Mkhandi
Publisher: IAHS; ISBN: 1-901502-81-3; Publication date: March 2002; Price: £73.50
This volume comprises papers presented at the 4th International Conference on FRIEND held in Cape Town, South Africa in March 2002, which focused on bridging the gap between knowledge, research and practical applications. The papers demonstrate how advances in hydrology can be used for the development of integrated river basin management to ensure the sustainable development of water resources. Examples illustrate the incorporation of research results into operational hydrology and water resources planning.
E-mail: cate@iahs.demon.co.uk
Website: www.cig.ensmp.fr/~iahs

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New UNESCO Water web portal now available
UNESCO has established a specific web portal for water at:
www.unesco.org/water/. Amongst other information is the International Glossary of Hydrology and the UNESCO photobank.

World Water Actions online
The first part of the of the World Water Actions draft report, which will be presented at the 3rd World Water Forum in Kyoto, 2003, is now available in four languages, namely English, French, Japanese and Turkish. You can download it from:
www.worldwatercouncil.org/WAU_intro.shtml

Virtual Water Forum
The on-line forum for the Third World Water Forum now has around 100 discussion groups open on all subjects related to water. A recent evaluation of the groups has ranked the following as the best:
1. "Wastewater Management and Sanitation" (Mr. Tsunekazu Fukui, JSWA)
www.worldwaterforum.org/for/en/fshow.218
2. "From Potential Conflict to Co-operation Potential: Water for Peace" (Ms. Fiona Curtin, Green Cross International and Ms. Lena Salame, UNESCO)
www.worldwaterforum.org/for/en/fshow.297
3. "Putting people at the center: water, sanitation and hygiene" (Dr. Darren Saywell, WSSCC)
www.worldwaterforum.org/for/en/fshow.3343.
4. "Water for Energy" (Mr. Pravin Karki, The International Hydropower Association)
www.worldwaterforum.org/for/en/fshow.435
A full list of sessions can be viewed at: www.water-forum3.com/vwf/sessionlist.htm

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European Union - Sixth Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (2002-2006)
The Sixth Framework Programme for research in the European Union has recently been adopted by the European Commission and includes two new instruments which will be used, for better integration of European research. These instruments are: integrated projects and networks of excellence. Detailed information (updated May 7th) can be found at:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/fp6/networks-ip.html

Programme of Scholarships for Latin Americans in the European Union
The Alßan Programme aims at the reinforcement of the European Union-Latin America co-operation in the area of Higher Education and covers studies for postgraduates as well as higher training for Latin America professionals/future decision-makers, in institutions or centres in the European Union. The first grantees of the Alßan Programme will enrol in postgraduate - master and doctorate - or higher specialised training from the academic year 2003/2004.
E-mail: Europeaid-infoalban@cec.eu.int
Website: http://europa.eu.int/comm/europeaid/projects/alban/index_en.htm

Training days in Flood Modelling and Management, Glasgow, UK
A series of Training days in Flood Modelling and Management during the period 19th-30th August 2002 will be held at the University of Glasgow, UK. For more details please visit http://cpd.civil.gla.ac.uk or e-mail the organisers at: cpd@civil.gla.ac.uk

New UK network of academics in coastal research established
A new network of academics and other professionals working in the fields of Coastal Structures, Beach Processes and Coastal Waters has been formed in the UK. It started in March 2002 and will run for three years. The networks are funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and supported by the Environment Agency and DEFRA. The main objectives of the networks are to encourage new multidisciplinary research collaborations and to bring together an extended community of researchers and end-users of research. These objectives will be achieved through a programme of meetings and a website http://cozone.org.uk/. Both will be used to assist network members to identify key issues for research and to form collaborative teams to address these issues.

Singapore National Science and Technology Board
Post-Doctoral Fellowship Programme
The National Science and Technology Board has funding for PhDs from other countries for two year research posts which includes environmental engineering.
Website: www.eng.nus.edu.sg/final/recruitment/nstb.htm

UN, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Dr. Rajendra Pachauri has been appointed new Chairman in succession to Dr. Robert Watson.
Find this and further news on the IPCC at www.ipcc.ch

"Fears over Venice dams recede", New Scientist
NewScientist.com has published this month an interesting article titled "Fears over Venice dams recede" that you can find at:
www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992281

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Faculty Position in Environmental Hydraulics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne , Switzerland
The EPFL seeks a highly qualified individual committed to a career in research and teaching, with an interdisciplinary vision and a strong record of accomplishments. The appointee will initiate independent, creative research programs and participate in undergraduate and graduate teaching. Start-up resources will be available. We offer internationally competitive salaries and benefits. For more information, please consult: www.epfl.ch and http://enac.epfl.ch. Applications with curriculum vitae, publication list, concise statement of research and teaching interests as well as the names and addresses of at least five references should be sent by September 30, 2002, to
Professor Laurent Vulliet, Dean
School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, EPFL
CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
E-mail : laurent.vulliet@epfl.ch

Post doctoral position in the Freshwater Hydrodynamics Group at NIWA, New Zealand
A post doctoral position is available in the Freshwater Hydrodynamics Group at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), New Zealand. The successful candidate will have a recent Ph.D. degree in environmental hydraulics or closely related field. The main focus of this position will be on the dynamics of cohesive and non-cohesive sediments in streams and estuaries, with some involvement in other areas of environmental hydraulics such as freshwater hydrodynamics and flow-biota interactions. Experience in laboratory and field experimentation and computer simulations is highly desirable. The position is for two years.
Contact: Dr. Vlad Nikora
E-mail: v.nikora@niwa.cri.nz

Vacancies in an international firm of consultants, UK
Scott Wilson is an international firm of consultants providing a full range of integrated planning, management, engineering and environmental services. The firm operates through offices in the UK, Africa, Middle East and Asia-Pacific employing over 2600 worldwide. The Rivers and Coastal Group, located at Basingstoke (UK), is currently involved in beach resorts, coastal strategies, flood risk assessment, harbour siting and layout, water quality modelling, beach monitoring and hurricane modelling. The company has vacancies in the fields of Coastal Engineering, Shoreline Management, Flood Risk and Coastal and River Modelling
Contact: Jemma Blanchard
E-mail: jemma.blanchard@scottwilson.com
Website: www.scottwilson.com

Post-Doctoral Researcher in Hydromechanics, Zürich, Switzerland
In order to understand, predict, and model flow and transport problems in the aquatic environment, the Institute for Hydromechanics and Water Resources Management, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich, links theoretical, experimental, and numerical studies. The focus of the Hydromechanics Group is on basic research for surface water bodies including multi-phase and density flows, transport and reactive mixing processes with special emphasis on self-organizing systems. Applications with usual documentation should be sent to:
ETH Zürich, Personalabteilung, attn. Herrn H. Kreis, TUR C 21,
ETH Zentrum, CH-8092 Zürich
Contact: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Kinzelbach
E-mail: kinzelbach@ihw.baug.ethz.ch
Website: www.ihw.ethz.ch

Water and wastewater management options for a new peri-urban development, Cranfield, UK
Student scholarship of up to £10,000 available for a one year research position leading to a MSc by research qualification. The post is open to a UK/EU graduate in science or engineering preferably with some experience and knowledge in the field of water and wastewater management.
Website: http://jobs.ac.uk/jobfiles/HN154.html

Please note that the vacancies may be restricted to applicants having right of residence in the country concerned.
Vacancies which can be posted under "Job Opportunities" can be e-mailed to IAHR, e-mail: iahr@iahr.org

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