UNESCO delegates� visit to concentrate on regional water issues

� The visit will strengthen the long-standing
relationship and cooperation between UNESCO and
AIT. The delegates will have several meetings
with the AIT administration and will discuss the
establishment of centers of excellence for education,
capacity building and research in water resources
management and nanotechnology at AIT, and collaboration
among AIT, UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education,
and UNESCO, under the framework of the IHP, Water
Sciences and Natural Sciences of UNESCO.

In addition, the following three activities
are being organized at AIT during that period:

� UNESCO IHP 'PCCP South and Southeast
Asia Brainstorming Meeting' on 21 April
2006 from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the AIT Conference
Center.

� A guest lecture on 'Water for the
Future and the Future of Water: Challenges for
International Science, Policy and Politics'
by Dr Andras Sz�llosi-Nagy on 21 April 2006
at 2:30 p.m. at the Milton E. Bender Jr. Auditorium.

� UNESCO IHP 'ISI Workshop on Sediment
Management in South and Southeast Asia'
on 24-25 April 2006 at the Conference Center.

For more information on the above events, please
contact Dr. Mukand S. Babel, Water Engineering
and Management field of study coordinator and
Workshops Organizing Committee chairman.

For more
information about UNESCO's water activities
please visit: www.unesco.org/water.