In cooperation with the Fourth World Water Forum and the Japan Water Forum, UNICEF is planning to organize the second Children's World Water Forum as a parallel event.

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e) The World Week of Mosques

E. Fourth World Water Forum, Mexico 2006

The Northern Water Network was launched at the Third World Water Forum in an effort to build a network among the water community in industrialized countries to exchange experiences, technologies and know how.

Sports events for young people from slum areas have been organized in connection with World Habitat Day, International Youth Day, World Water Day and World AIDS Day.

Noting that the Fourth World Water Forum will take place in Mexico in March 2006,

The first edition of the report, Water for People, Water for Life, was launched at the Third World Water Forum, in Kyoto, Japan, on 22 March 2003 (see www.world.water forum3.com ), and the second edition will be launched at the Fourth World Water Forum, in Mexico City, on 22 March 2006.

The Board is expected to provide important inputs to the Fourth World Water Forum, in Mexico City in March 2006.

GWA will showcase these materials at the Fourth World Water Forum, in Mexico in March 2006, and at other events.

The World Water Assessment Programme, which produces the Report, has articulated how eight of the MDGs are linked to water resources.

GIWA focused on environmental aspects of water, comprising surface and ground waters as well as coastal and marine waters.

Next week, the Global Green Growth Forum in Copenhagen will allow for a deeper look at this issue.

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(d) existing uses of the waters

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The Global International Waters Assessment (GIWA) project, carried out with support of partners such as GEF, ended on 30 June 2005.

We look forward to the outcome of this week's World Conference on Disaster Reduction in Kobe, Japan.

The total area is 2.28 percent water.

This example of excellent inter agency collaboration drew in many other members of UN Water, in particular the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), which was the lead agency in organizing the World Day for Water, 22 March 2003, under the theme Water for the future .

The commemoration in 2003 of the International Year of Fresh Water was a benchmark in the establishment of an international water agenda.

The World Water Forum and Ministerial Conference are initiatives of the World Water Council and host Governments, aimed at raising awareness and promoting active stakeholder discussions on water issues all over the world.

1. Proclaims the period from 2005 to 2015 the International Decade for Action, Water for Life , to commence on World Water Day, 22 March 2005

Noting the efforts for the preparations for the Third World Water Forum, to be held in Japan in March 2003, and for the elaboration of the World Water Development Report,

They had to dig wells for water.

(a) Environmental conditions of transboundary waters

(i) Substantive servicing of meetings provision of institutional support to regional intergovernmental processes on water (e.g. African Ministers' Council on Water) (3)

Over the last 20 or 30 years we have begun to comprehend what is at stake, owing to initiatives like the World Water Forum, which held its fourth annual meeting in March.

If current trends continue, global annual water usage is set to increase by more than two trillion cubic metres by 2030, rising to 6.9 trillion cubic metres.

We hope that on the occasion of the Fourth World Water Forum to be held in Mexico in 2006, an agreement can be reached with the European Union for the implementation of the Latin American component.

A coherent methodology, which gives results that are comparable across the GIWA project, was developed and used to conduct regional assessments by 55 regional assessment teams.

55 196. International Year of Freshwater, 2003

There is an anticlockwise water circulation in the sea.

British Virgin Islands

This pattern differs from that of salmon, which only return to freshwater to breed, and is described as amphidromous.

Noting the efforts made in preparation for the Third World Water Forum and International Ministerial Conference, to be held in Japan in March 2003, and for the elaboration of the World Water Development Report ,

The report also highlights some of the services provided by UNEP to Member States and other stakeholders at global and sub global levels, including activities in the context of the Bali Strategic Plan for Technology Support and Capacity building.

1. Proclaims the year 2003 as the International Year of Freshwater

2003 was designated the International Year of Freshwater.

As part of its efforts during the Water for Life Decade, UNEP will also strengthen the UNEP Global Environmental Monitoring System on Water as a global repository for water quality data.

Two plenary meetings of the General Assembly devoted to the evaluation of the progress made in the implementation of the World Programme of Action for Youth will be held in the first week of October 2005.

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Groundwater abstraction activities or artificial groundwater recharge schemes where the annual volume of water to be abstracted or recharged amounts to 10 million cubic metres or more.