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Water Community keen on factoring Risk Aspects into Integrated Water Resources Management
The WMO and its Partners at the Fourth World Water Forum
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"While natural hazards may not be avoided, the integration of risk assessment and early warnings with
prevention and mitigation measures can stop many hazards from becoming disasters. This means that
action can be taken to considerably reduce the resulting loss of life and socio-economic damages...."
Read more in the
Statement on the Occasion of the Opening Plenary of the Risk Management Day (21 March 2006)
by
M. Jarraud
Secretary-General
World Meteorological Organization
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At the WMO Booth, Members of the Water Community have shown great interest in activities and outputs of WMO and its partners in the areas of Sustainable Development of Water Resouces, Disaster Risk Reduction, Climate Variabiliy and Change and Flood Management.
At the WMO booth (Pictures) |
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| WMO in the media |
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| Sessions in the Thematic Segment of the Forum |
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Adopting Integrated Flood Management (IFM) within Integrated Water Resources Management (FT 2.44) |
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Information in support of Integrated Water Resources Management (FT 2.24) |
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Flash Floods (FT 5.20) |
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Managing Drought Risk - Role of improved prepardness and mitigation (FT 5.11) |
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Collaborative approach among international agencies
for effective Flood Management (FT 5.19)
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| Adopting Integrated Flood Management (IFM) within Integrated Water Resources Management |
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To build flood resilient communities, it is essential to take an integrated approach to flood management–linking land and water uses, flood risks, socio-economic development and the protection of natural ecosystems through appropriate institutional framework and public participation.In this session, through the presentations and discussion, various practical experiences, good practices and lessons learned including difficulties and problems, with their consequences and their optional remediation and solution have been analyzed and shared, in order to facilitate the countries in adopting an Integrated Flood Management approach to minimize the losses of life from flooding and maximize the net benefits derived from flood plains. |
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| Information in support of Integrated Water Resources Management |
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The objective of the session has been to demonstrate the importance of data and information (climate and water) to sustainable water resources management and food production. Good practice examples of how collaborative frameworks and information networks are key elements in building communities of practitioners, carrying-out regional policy dialogue and developing new joint initiatives have been presented. The main success criteria and also the difficulties encountered in order to transfer know-how to other regions and countries have been highlighted. Current initiatives to address these issues have been described at regional and national levels (EMWIS, WHYCOS, etc.) and make significant use of local case studies.
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| Flash Floods |
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Flash floods are the deadliest type of floods due to the short leadtimes that are available to react on an incoming flash flood. Advances in forecasting could be discussed in this session. However, realizing the limitations of forecasting if applied as an isolated measure, the way the communities affected by flash floods should prepare themselves for mitigating the adverse impacts could be addressed through a wider range of measures. |
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| Managing Drought Risk - Role of improved prepardness and mitigation |
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Drought is by far the most damaging of all natural disasters. Drought needs to be understood as part of the average climate. Sustainable development requires improved management in all climate ranges, especially during climate extremes, which bring the greatest risk of environmental degradation.
This session focused on risk-based management of droughts and how better preparedness and management strategies can help cope with drought risks. |
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| Collaborative approach among international agencies
for effective Flood Management |
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The objective of the session has been to promote international cooperative activities for integrated flood risk management among various UN agencies and related intergovernmental and scientific organizations participating in the International Flood Initiative (IFI). Main contributors included WMO, UNESCO, UNU-EHS, I-CHARM, IAHS, and UN-ISDR. |
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