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Regional Workshop on Shared Aquifer Management Kazakhstan – Uzbekistan Cooperation

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Paris, France

10 – 11 April 2013

Organized by the UNESCO International Hydrological Programme (IHP)

with the support of

The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)

Room XIII (-2 Floor) Bonvin Building of UNESCO HQ, 1 rue Miollis 75015 Paris

AGENDA

WEDNESDAY 10 APRIL

9:45–10:00 Welcome Coffee

10:00–10:10 Opening Remarks

Blanca Elena Jimenez-Cisneros, Director of the Division of Water Sciences, Secretary of the UNESCO-IHP

10:10–13:00 Session 1 – Setting the Scene

Chairperson: Dr. Alice AURELI

10:10 – 10:40 UNESCO Programme and the worldwide ISARM (Internationally Shared

Aquifer Resources Management) Initiative

Alice Aureli, Chief of Section, Groundwater Systems Section, Division of Water Sciences, UNESCO-IHP

10:40 – 11:05 Overview of the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes

Annukka Lipponen, Environmental Affairs Officer, Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes, Environment Division, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)

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11:05 – 11:35 Presentation of the EU Water Framework Directive

SCHEIDLEDER Andreas, Working Group C on Groundwater, European Commission

11:35- 12:05 Presentation of the IGRAC Centre (International Groundwater Resources Assessment Centre)

Neno Kukuric, Director , UNESCO-WMO IGRAC Centre

12:05 – 13:00 Question and answer session

13:00–14:30 Lunch Break

14:30–17:30 Session 2 – Opportunities for the Pretashkent aquifer and knowledge

sharing

Chairperson: Dr. Alice AURELI

14:30-15:10 The Genevois aquifer - a shared aquifer resource management collaboration between Switzerland and France

Gabriel de los Cobos, Head of Geology - Hydrogeology Branch, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland

15:10 – 16:00 Opportunities for collaboration on the Pretashkent aquifer Joint presentation by:

Alice Aureli, Chief of Section, Groundwater Systems Section, Division of Water Sciences, UNESCO-IHP

Ivica Trumbic, Senior Consultant to UNESCO-IHP

Holger Treidel, Programme Specialist, UNESCO-IHP 16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 – 17:30 Question and answer session

CLOSE OF MEETING DAY 1 AT 17:30

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THURSDAY 11 APRIL 9:45–10:00 Coffee Time

10:00–10:15 Recap on Sessions 1 and 2

Chairperson: Dr. Alice AURELI

10:15–13:00 Session 3 – Situation of groundwater resources in Kazakhstan and

Uzbekistan

10:15 – 10:45 Presentations by experts from Kazakhstan

Mr. Oleg Podolny , Director of the Department of Geoecology and Mathematical

Modeling, Organization (15’)

Mr. Igor Seversky, Chairman of IHP National Committee, RK, (15’)

10:45 – 11:45 Presentations by experts from Uzbekistan

Mr. Sergey Myagkov, Executive secretary, IHP National (15’)

Mr. Jamoljon Djumanov, Head of the Laboratory”GIS-technology”,

HYDROINGEO Institute (15’)

Mr. Gulom Bekmirzaev, Scientific researcher, Tashkent Institute of Irrigation

and Melioration (15’)

Mr. Abdulkhakim Salokhiddinov,Professor, Tashkent Institute of Irrigation

and Melioration (15’)

11:45 – 13:00 Discussion on gaps, challenges and management issues: opportunities for a

UNESCO Program

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13:00–14:30 Lunch Break

14:30–17:30 Session 4 – Definition of a workplan and creation of working groups

14:30 – 16:00 General discussion and definition of a workplan and actions to be taken.

Setting up of a case study on the Pretashkent aquifer

16:00–16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 – 17:30 Proposal for national and regional working groups

CLOSE OF MEETING DAY 2 AT 17:30