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Welcome from Prof. Patricia Wouters, Centre Director

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Professor Pat Wouters

 

Water law, policy and science are central to the global water challenge. The need is acute; more than 1 billion people lack access to safe drinking water and a scary 2.4 billion are without adequate sanitation. See our uploaded publications; editions of Featured Research from our Network (FRETWORK); and our two page summary document.

Our work is practical and results-focused; to maximise our impact, we are focused on both building local capacity for water leadership globally and demonstrating the accessibility and utility of our research to decision makers; this summer (see BBC news item).

August 2011 saw the second annual International Water Law Workshop here in Dundee, which turned out to be even more successful than the first one in 2010. In 2012, we will be hosting the third annual International Water Law Workshop in June. Dundee will be represented by our Centre at Marseille World Water Forum in March 2012. In line with achieving the Centre's objectives, our Centre will be working closely with our Scottish and international partners to make the UN International Year of Water Cooperation, 2013 a grand success.


Regional Coordination Unit for HELP in Europe

We operate under the auspices of UNESCO's International Hydrological Programme - Hydrology for the Environment, Life and Policy (IHP-HELP).  We are pleased to collaborate with Fellow UNESCO Centres that are complementary to our work.

HELP has established a global network of river basins deploying hydrological science in support of improved integrated catchment management and public engagement. As part of Our IHP-HELP Centre Objectives and Functions we operate the European HELP Basins Reginal Coordination Unit on behalf of UNESCO.