Sediment management discussed in April workshop
A 'Sediment Management Workshop' will be held at the AIT Conference Center 24-25 April 2006.
This workshop is co-sponsored by UNESCO-Headquarters, UNESCO-Jakarta Office, Mekong River Commission, AIT, United Nations University and the International Research and Training Centre for Erosion and Sedimentation.
The topics of discussion will be Watershed and Channel Processes (soil erosion, river and lake sedimentation, aggradation and degradation, channel migration and riverbank protection, dam construction and reservoir sedimentation, floods and droughts versus sedimentation and erosion and the impact of climate change); Environmental and Socio-economic Impacts of Sedimentation (drinking water supply, water quality, health and the environment, wetlands and wildlife, logging and deforestation, arable land degradation, navigable waterways and coastline shift).
Colleagues interested in presentating a paper at the workshop are requested to contact Dr. Mukand S. Babel at msbabel@ait.ac.th
as soon as possible.