WWC News Update nb 26 / La lettre d'information du CME no 26

In this issue:

-          Editorial: “Water & Politics” - by Loïc Fauchon, President

-          At a glance: Water & Culture

-          This month’s focus: Water and Culture

ü       Cinema as a tool for raising awareness on water issues – The International Water & Film Event

ü       A Ramsar/Medwet Award at the Ecofilms Festival

ü       Zarqa River Photo Exhibition

ü       Past and Futures of Water: 5th IWHA Conference

ü       Water Battles

-          WWC News

ü       29th Board of Governors Meeting of the WWC

ü       Financing Water to meet the MDGs

ü       Water Security – Does Europe have a Strategy?

ü       Говорим по Русский! (We speak Russian!)

ü       Water for a Changing World

-          On the Member’s Side

ü       The French Committee of ICID gathers in Marseilles

ü       ICOLD Meeting in St Petersburg

ü       General Assembly of the Mediterranean Institute for Water

-          Blue News

ü       World Environment Day – Melting Ice: a Hot topic?

ü       A Prize for “Water Resources in Arid and Semi-Arid Areas”

ü       1st Asia-Pacific Water Summit

-          Publications, Where to meet