Balwois 2010
Balwois 2010 is a platform for creating partnerships in solving water scarcity problems, floods, droughts, environmental degradation and risk affecting different regions. The conference is designed to facilitate sharing of experiences in water issue and management through presentation of scientific and technical papers and posters on planning research and development activities.
The purpose is to provide a solutions-based forum and to exchange information regarding research activities and plans for studying the relationship between climate and environment for improving the quantity and quality of water, and engineering, and current policies from state and federal agencies. It is the intent of this conference to bring forward the concerns and impending problems (and offer solutions) that are developing with regards to the availability and quality of water, and the consequences to aquatic ecosystems and human environment, not only at the Balkan scale, but wider.
A specific session will be dedicated to a presentation Drought Management Centre for south-eastern Europe (DMCSEE) focusing on drought monitoring and related risks mitigation.
Topics addressed
Topic 1 : Climate and Hydrology
Topic 2 : Environment and Human Activities
Topic 3 : Water Related Risks
Topic 4 : Integrated Water Resouces Management
Topic 5 : Ecohydrology
Topic 6 : Computing and Technologies
Topic 7 : Others