By Voradeth Phonekeo, Mekong River Commission, Laos
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This is a presentation that was given by Eric Zahn and Taylor Parker of Tidal Influence for the Moffatt & Nichol consulting team in charge of the Conceptual Restoration Design for the Los Cerritos Wetlands Authority. If you have questions or concerns, please email info@tidalinfluence.com
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After completing this course, participants will be able to:
• Understand the provisions of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act (WSRA) that guide management of a designated WSR.
• Share the management implications of designation within the river-administering agency and with local, federal and state governments, tribal governments, landowners and nongovernmental organizations.
• Provide guidance for decision makers relative to proposed projects and new decisions on federal lands prior to completion of the CRMP.
• Know the general contents and key elements of a CRMP.
• Develop an integrated approach for preparation of a CRMP.
Participants will increase their knowledge in:
• Protections provided in the WSRA.
• The application of the protect and enhance mandate of Section 10(a) to interim management and development of a CRMP.
• How to evaluate a proposed project or new decision on federal land prior to completion of a CRMP.
• How to prepare a detailed river corridor boundary.
• The protection and decision framework of a CRMP.
• How to prepare a CRMP.
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Managing a Wild and Scenic River - The Wild and Scenic Rivers Act and Compreh...rshimoda2014
This course presents agency responsibilities for managing a designated wild and scenic rivers (WSR). The content of this course is derived from Wild and Scenic River Management Responsibilities (March 2002), a technical report of the Interagency Wild and Scenic Rivers Council (Council) (www.rivers.gov/publications.html).
Participation will result in increased understanding of the protection requirements associated with managing a designated WSR, and of the contents and key elements of a comprehensive river management plan (CRMP). This increased foundation will result in greater protection of each river’s values through development of its CRMP.
After completing this course, participants will be able to:
• Understand the provisions of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act (WSRA) that guide management of a designated WSR.
• Share the management implications of designation within the river-administering agency and with local, federal and state governments, tribal governments, landowners and nongovernmental organizations.
• Provide guidance for decision makers relative to proposed projects and new decisions on federal lands prior to completion of the CRMP.
• Know the general contents and key elements of a CRMP.
• Develop an integrated approach for preparation of a CRMP.
Participants will increase their knowledge in:
• Protections provided in the WSRA.
• The application of the protect and enhance mandate of Section 10(a) to interim management and development of a CRMP.
• How to evaluate a proposed project or new decision on federal land prior to completion of a CRMP.
• How to prepare a detailed river corridor boundary.
• The protection and decision framework of a CRMP.
• How to prepare a CRMP.
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Wisconsin is the only Great Lakes state with statewide numeric water quality standards for phosphorus. In the Fox-Wolf basin, where phosphorus pollution is a major issue, there are projects underway to meet those standards through the innovative strategies of water quality trading and Wisconsin’s “adaptive management option” This workshop will illustrate each strategy through case studies and a discussion of their similarities and differences. This presentation was given by Victoria Pebbles, Program Director, Great Lakes Commission.
Water and Shale Gas Development - Leveraging the US experience in new shale d...Marcellus Drilling News
A new report by global consulting firm Accenture that looks at the efficient and innovative ways the United States has dealt with water use in shale gas drilling. Accenture offers the U.S. as a model template for other countries who may be considering how (and whether) to frack their own shale deposits.
The two countries in southern Africa have classic configuration of being located in transboundary basins. There are many similarities as regards their interdependence on riparians. The presentation summarises possible complementarity and consistency in transboundary water management. The findings are based on almost 30 months of work in the region.
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Delaware River Basin Commission - Hearing to review an application form XTO Energy to withdraw .25 million gallons of water per day from the Oquaga Creek in the Town of Sanford, NY for purposes of shale gas drilling exploration and production.
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A new report by global consulting firm Accenture that looks at the efficient and innovative ways the United States has dealt with water use in shale gas drilling. Accenture offers the U.S. as a model template for other countries who may be considering how (and whether) to frack their own shale deposits.
The two countries in southern Africa have classic configuration of being located in transboundary basins. There are many similarities as regards their interdependence on riparians. The presentation summarises possible complementarity and consistency in transboundary water management. The findings are based on almost 30 months of work in the region.
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To provide the SANBI 18th National Biodiversity Planning Forum with:
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An update on the development of the NSDF
Way Forward
Community-Based Watershed Management and Wetland Mitigation
Southeast Alaska Watershed Coalition
alaskawatershedcoalition.org
Community Training
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Donal Daly, EPA Catchment Science and Management Unit outlines a possible approach to integrating Water Framework Directive and Biodiversity goals at the catchment scale.
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State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
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The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
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💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
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1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
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https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
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Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
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Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
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The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
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2. Aim of today presentation
• What is RSAT?
• How might RSAT contribute to improving
hydropower quality, actor responsibility and project
sustainability?
• How RSAT can help basin development planning,
and RBOs functions?
3. What is the Rapid Sustainability
Assessment Tool (RSAT)?
The RSAT is a tool used to assist decision making for
sustainable hydropower development in the Mekong
River Basin.
What methods does it use?
• Participatory SWOT analysis
• Multi-stakeholder dialogue
• Evidence based scoring against criteria
• Gap analysis
• Action planning
4. How might RSAT contribute to improving
hydropower quality, project sustainability?
The tool is designed to assess:
• A single hydropower project and its relationship to a
sub-basin;
• Existing and proposed cascades of hydropower
projects within a sub-basin or multiple projects
within a sub-basin (or 2nd order sub-basin
tributary);
• A sub-basin as a whole that has hydropower
potential; and
• Transboundary issues for basins shared by different
countries, where hydropower is already developed
or could be developed in future
5. • Key sub- basin stakeholders
– National regulatory agencies / line agencies
– Provincial agencies
– River basin entity (emergent or proxy)
– Hydropower developers / operators
– Transboundary and regional institutions
– Other Stakeholders:
– Project affected communities and their
representatives
– Potential funding agencies, such as multilateral
development banks
Key players
6. 11 RSAT Topics
1. Economic development of basin
2. Social and cultural well-being in the basin
3. Environmental quality of the basin
4. Options assessment and alignment with regional plans
5. Co-ordination and optimisation of multiple projects in a
basin
6. Environmental flows and downstream regulation
7. Fish passage and fisheries management
8. Benefit sharing and financing sustainability measures
9. Safety and disaster prevention
10. Institutional setting
11. Stakeholder engagement and communication
7. Topic Criteria
1: Hydropower and 1.1 Relative contribution of hydropower to national economies
economic development in the 1.2 Relative contribution of hydropower to local economies
basin / sub-basin 1.3: Synergies and trade-offs with other economic sectors in the basin
1.4: Multiple water use optimisation
2: Hydropower and social and 2.1: Cultural values and non-material uses of resources
cultural well-being in the 2.2 Protection of livelihoods and land and water access rights and
basin / sub-basin entitlements
2.3 Involuntary re-settlement
2.4 Hydropower and equitable social advancement
2.5 Hydropower and poverty reduction
3: Hydropower and 3.1: Understanding and protection of basin-wide ecosystem integrity
environmental quality and
natural resources 3.2: Management of hydropower environmental impacts
management in the basin / 3.3: Protection of high value rivers from development
sub-basin 3.4: Hydropower impact on sustainable use of natural resources
3.5 Impact on river morphology, erosion and sedimentation
3.6: Monitoring changes to environmental quality as a result of
hydropower
4: Options assessment and 4.1 Options assessment for water and energy services in the basin or
alignment with national, export revenue
regional and international 4.2 Alignment with regional and international agreements, policies /
agreements, policies and plans and national commitments for basin development
plans 4.3 Alignment with integrated water resource management (IWRM)
planning in the basin
8. 5. Site selection and 5.1 Multi-criteria assessment for site selection and optimisation for
optimisation, sequencing and multiple projects in a basin or cascade
multi project co-ordination
5.2 Protection of unique biodiversity / habitat and culturally
significant sites in hydropower site selection and design
5.3 Co-ordination of planning for hydropower implementation in a
basin with multiple objectives
5.4 Co-ordination of planning for operations within a system of
multiple reservoirs or cascade
6: Environmental flows and 6.1: Environmental flow assessment (EFA)
downstream regulation 6.2: Structural provision and operational procedures for sediment
management and sediment flushing during all project stages
6.3 Structural provision and operational procedures for downstream
flow regulation including transboundary considerations
6.4 Maintaining the flow of nutrient rich silt
6.5 Flood and drought management and floodplain protection
6.6 River transport and navigation locks
7. Fish passage and fisheries 7.1 Understanding and monitoring of fisheries resources
management 7.2 Policy, regulations and practices for fish management in
hydropower
7.3 Structural and operational provision for fish passage
7.4 Protection of upstream and downstream fisheries and
development of reservoir fisheries
9. Topic Criteria
8: Sharing of benefits and use 8.1 Sharing of project benefits
of innovative financing 8.2 Equitable water resource allocation between sectors and countries
measures for sustainability 8.3 Payment for ecological services (PES)
(local and transboundary) 8.4 Carbon financing opportunities to fund sustainability measures
8.5 Project revenue to fund sustainability measures
9: Provision for safety and 9.1 Dam safety management system (DSMS)
disaster prevention and 9.2 Consistency across basin / cascade
management 9.3: Emergency preparedness plans (EPP) and co-ordination
9.4: Dam break and other analysis prepared for projects in cascades
9.5: Emergency flood management
10: National and basin-wide 10.1 Sustainable hydropower – roles and allocation of responsibility
institutional setting 10.2 Co-ordination mechanisms between key stakeholders
10.3 Transboundary notification, conflict resolution and communication
10.4 Monitoring, review and compliance provisions
10.5: Sustainability principles in hydropower agreements
10.6: Capacity building plans for key agencies and River Basin
Organisations and Committees (RBO / RBC)
11: Communication, basin 11.1 Strategic communication and awareness of sustainable hydropower
stakeholder and community – principles and practices
involvement and support for 11.2: Informed participation and representation in hydropower decision
hydropower development making at all stages of the project cycle
11.3 Information sharing and access to data and reports
11.4: Basin level community support for hydropower
11.5 Integration of operations in watershed / catchment management
10. RSAT Case Studies
3S Rivers Basin
– Developing transboundary
IWRM
Cascade of 7 dams in river basin Nam Kam
(Lao PDR)
– Scoping for CIA Nam Ngum
– Designing watershed
management strategy
3S Basin
Nam Ngum river basin (Lao PDR) (transboundary)
– Dialogue for the RBC
Sre Pok river basin
– Upper Vietnam
– Lower Cambodia – EIA
guidance
Sre Pok
Upper and Lower
11. Example of RSAT analysis - Nam Ngum River Basin
– Used RSAT to identify priority actions for
River Basin Committee
– Multi-stakeholder assessment team
• provincial agencies
• multi-sectoral
• hydropower developers
– Actions
• SWOT analysis
• Sustainability Scoring Identification of priority
actions for RBC
Outcomes:
– Developed understanding of sustainability
issues for hydropower development in NN
– Build relationships between sectors
involved in NN RBC
– Priority actions identified for NN RBC
12. RSAT can be downloaded at:
http://www.mrcmekong.org/news-and-events/news/innovative-tool-for-mekong-basin-wide-sustainable-
hydropower-assessment-launched/
Editor's Notes
Give a briefing on the RSAT, its concept, its potential usethe users, and
What is the tool designed to assess?A single hydropower project and its relationship to a sub-basin;Existing and proposed cascades of hydropower projects within a sub-basin or multiple projects within a sub-basin (or 2nd order sub-basin tributary);A sub-basin as a whole that has hydropower potential; andTransboundary issues for basins shared by different countries, where hydropower is already developed or could be developed in future
actor responsibility and What does RSAT contribute ?Integrated assessment of hydropower beyond individual projectIdentifies key risks and opportunitiesIdentifies roles and responsibilities in a basin contextInstitutional gap analysisOutputs can be used for watershed planningA planning framework for river basin organisations
Key sub- basin stakeholdersNational regulatory agencies / line agenciesProvincial agenciesRiver basin entity (emergent or proxy)Hydropower developers / operators Transboundary and regional institutionsOther Stakeholders:Project affected communities and their representativesPotential funding agencies, such as multilateral development banksAn Assessment team of about 15 PERSONSDuration about 7 days
Training on RSAT assessment were done for several River BasinsRSAT Case Studies 2011 3S Rivers Basin Developing transboundary IWRM Cascade of 7 dams in river basin (Lao PDR)Scoping for CIADesigning watershed management strategyNam Ngum river basin (Lao PDR)Dialogue for the RBCSrePok river basinUpper VietnamLower Cambodia – EIA guidance
Each topic discussion followed a set pattern with the topic being introduced, outlining the intent and scope of the topic and the guidance provided. This was followed by a presentation of the evidence that had been collected by the consultants and the facilitators before hand. The panel members were then invited to discuss the topic and to bring additional evidence to the discussion. SWOT analyses and scoring discussions lead to the identification of at least two recommendations for priority action.