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Call for papers: The 2013 Water and Health Conference: Where Science Meets Policy

The 2013 Water and Health Conference: Where Science Meets Policy will bring together experts from academia, industry, non-governmental organizations, government and foundations to provide an interdisciplinary perspective spanning science, policy, practice and economics. We are now accepting abstracts for poster and verbal presentations.

The submission deadline is April 30, and may be submitted via the conference website.

The deadline for early decision is March 15, which is intended to assist people who will need to seek visas.

2013 Main Conference Themes

• Hygiene and behavioral change
• M&E: local, global, and human right perspectives
• Institutions, finance, and sustainability
• Sanitation and health
• Water supply and quality: from catchment to consumer and back

Abstract Submission Guidelines

• Title: 150 characters
• Authors: 300 characters
• Presenter: 100 characters
• Text: 5000 characters, including spaces

Important links for details:

• Call for Papers
• Sign Up to Submit an Abstract
• Submit or Edit an Abstract
• Presenter Guidelines
• Propose a Side Event

More About the Conference

Bringing together academic research with policy, practice and networking events

The 2013 Water and Health Conference: Where Science Meets Policy, organized by The Water Institute at UNC, will consider drinking water supply, sanitation, hygiene and water resources in both the developing and developed worlds with a strong public health emphasis.

The 2013 Water and Health Conference: Where Science Meets Policy is accompanied by several exciting events before and after the conference. Don’t miss the opportunity to network with and learn from the unique array of national and international professionals!

 

Save the Date!

• The 2013 Conference will run from October 14th through the 18th.

Location:

William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Science, Policy and Innovation

Bringing together academic research with policy, practice and networking events

The 2012 Water and Health Conference: Science, Policy and Innovation, jointly organized by the Institute for the Environment and the Water Institute at UNC, will consider drinking water supply, sanitation, hygiene and water resources in both the developing and developed worlds with a strong public health emphasis.

The 2012 Water and Health Conference: Science, Policy and Innovation is accompanied by several exciting events before and after the conference. Don’t miss the opportunity to network with and learn from the unique array of national and international professionals!

  Keynote Speakers 

• Bai Mass Taal- Executive Secretary of the African Ministers Council on Water
• Tessie San Martin- CEO of Plan International USA
• William G. Ross- former North Carolina Secretary for the Department of Environmental and Natural Resources and Visiting Professor at the Nicholas Institute for the Environment
• Letitia Obeng – Chair of the Global Water Partnership
• Charles Fishman- author of The Big Thirst
• Tom Earnhardt – producer and host of Exploring North Carolina

2012 Main Conference Themes:

• Monitoring and Evaluation for Sustainability
• Ecosystem Protection and Drinking Water Safety
• WaSH and Child Health
• Southeastern US Water Challenges
• Beyond 2015: Realizing Universal Access and Human Rights
• Water, Energy and Climate
• Making Sanitation Benefits Achievable and Sustainable for All
• Household-centered WaSH

Conference Links

• Conference Home
• About the Conference
• Call for Papers
• For Registrants
• Sponsorship
• Archives
• Questions?
• Institute for the Environment
• Water Institute

sources for content  – conference email announcement  and conference web pages

“…The draft ministerial declaration of the 6th World Water Forum: Time for Solutions still does not recognize the human right to water and sanitation that has been explicitly recognized at the UN”

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“’Solutions’ built on faulty foundations” – UN expert warns on the eve of World Water Forum

GENEVA (9 March 2012) – United Nations Special Rapporteur Catarina de Albuquerque today warned that the right to safe drinking water and sanitation will be sidelined at the 6th World Water Forum, a key global gathering of delegates from 140 governments, international organisations, civil society and the scientific community, representing more than 180 countries.

“It comes as an unwelcome surprise that the draft ministerial declaration of the 6th World Water Forum: Time for Solutions still does not recognize the human right to water and sanitation that has been explicitly recognized at the UN,” said the expert charged by the Human Rights Council with promoting, monitoring and reporting on the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation. “Governments are being inconsistent with their prior decisions on the recognition of the right to water and sanitation taken at the UN General Assembly.”

“If Governments spend one week discussing ‘solutions’ for water issues while failing to base them on the human right to water and sanitation, how could such solutions be for people who need water and sanitation most and are systematically neglected?,” asked Ms. de Albuquerque. “The outcome of the World Water Forum may become ‘solutions’ built on faulty foundations.”

In the final draft Ministerial Declaration of the 6th World Water Forum scheduled to take place in Marseille from 12 to 17 March 2012, governments – under a strong push by a very small minority of countries – have for the time being failed to explicitly affirm that the right to water and sanitation should be the basis for any solutions aimed at bringing sanitation and water for those still deprived of these essential services.

“The World Water Forum is not a gathering seen as a source for the creation of international law, but it is still unfortunate that this Forum’s Declaration does not respect the outcomes of long-standing thorough and comprehensive discussions at the UN,” Ms. de Albuquerque said. “I call upon the Governments participating at the World Water Forum to amend the text of the draft declaration. We still have time to do that.”

The independent expert further stressed that the international human rights standard on water and sanitation agreed at the UN must also guide the negotiations for upcoming Rio+20 and post-2015 development goals. “I am confident that UN Member States will integrate the human right to water and sanitation into future global agreements,” she said.

Catarina de Albuquerque is the first UN Special Rapporteur on the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation. She was appointed by the Human Rights Council in 2008. Ms. de Albuquerque is a Professor at the Law Faculties of the Universities of Braga and Coimbra and a Senior Legal Adviser at the Office for Documentation and Comparative Law, an independent institution under the Prosecutor General’s Office.

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http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/WaterAndSanitation/SRWater/Pages/SRWaterIndex.aspx

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