UNESCO Category II Centre on Integrated and Multidisciplinary Water Resources Management
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Water Family Meeting and Symposium on Water Equity in South-East Europe and the Mediterranean 28-29 March 2019 Palazzo Zorzi, Venice (Italy) - Konstantinos Voudouris, Vice President, UNESCO Category II Centre on Integrated and Multidisciplinary Water Resources Management, Thessaloniki, Greece
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UNESCO Category II Centre on Integrated and Multidisciplinary Water Resources Management
- 1. UNESCO Category II Centre on Integrated and Multidisciplinary Water Resources Management Konstantinos Voudouris Professor AUTh Venice, 2019 Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Greece
- 2. https://en.unesco.org/themes/water-security/centres Our UNESCO Center for Integrated and Multidisciplinary Water Resources Management started its function in June 2018, after the agreement between the Hellenic Republic and UNESCO. It is the evolution of the Water Center,It is the evolution of the Water Center, Which was established by the AristotleWhich was established by the Aristotle University in 2011University in 2011
- 4. 13 departments of Aristotle University can promote an integrated multidisciplinary water management.
- 5. Water Research in Aristotle University: A Multidisciplinary Approach CIVIL ENGINEERING BIOLOGY GEOLOGY AGRICULTURE CHEMISTRY FORESTRY & NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RURAL & SURVEY ENGINEERING MEDICINE MEDIA ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING INFORMATICS SPATIAL PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT Schools and Departments involved in Water Research programs Schools and Departments involved in Water Research programs
- 6. Due to its geopolitical position, the AUTh UNESCO Water Center, will function as a link (hub) for the Mediterranean area, the Balkans and South-East Europe. The main objective of our center is to promote the Integrated Water Resources Management, to provide policy advise, training, technical support, etc.
- 7. As a member of the great UNESCO water family we have the chance to promote the scientific research.
- 8. THE ROLE OF UNIVERSITIES “If your plan is for one year, plant rice. If your plan is for ten years, plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years, educate children.” Confucius (6th century BC)
- 9. Enhancing tertiary water education and professional capabilities in the water sector The new UNESCO Water Centre (IMWRM) will highly contribute to the educational and research network actions in implementing SDG6 through AUTh’s activities in: •Undergraduate studies •Postgraduate Studies •Continuing Education •Summer Schools The Center of IMWRM (ΚΕΟΔΔΥΠ) has made important efforts in some of these activities
- 10. Enhancing tertiary water education and professional capabilities in the water sector • Civil Engineering • Rural and Surveying Engineering • Chemical Engineering • Agriculture • Forestry and Natural Environment • Chemistry • Biology • Geology Almost one third of AUTh’s Schools provide a significant total of water-related courses at the undergraduate level The following Schools are major contributors: Undergraduate studies
- 11. Enhancing tertiary water education and professional capabilities in the water sector • Civil Engineering • Physics • Chemistry • Agriculture • Forestry and Natural Environment • Biology • Geology At the moment there are nine Postgraduate Programmes of Specialisation (1-2 years duration) more or less related to water issues that are offered by the following Schools of AUth: Postgraduate studies
- 12. The 12 Laboratories of the Network belong to 7 Greek Universities Three of them are from AUTh The universities are widespread along the whole country The Laboratories are units of various Schools Academic Network of Education, Research and Technology in Hydrology and Environmental Water Resources Management
- 13. Enhancing tertiary water education and professional capabilities in the water sector AUTh provides Lifelong Learning courses in various disciplines – an activity supervised by a specific academic committee The new UNESCO Water Centre (IMWRM) would accommodate its own relevant activities either alone and/or in collaboration with the university’s services Continuing Education Summer Schools AUTh operates summer schools and seminars in some thematic areas The Centre of IMWRM has already experience in these activities
- 14. Erasmus Lifelong Learning Program
- 15. During the last four years AUTh operates an open-doors initiative called “AUTh on Sunday” that includes a series of activities for informing citizens, families and children on the wide spectrum of scientific disciplines. This very successful initiative has received a warm welcome from thousands of citizens of Thessaloniki Water education for children and youth On the basis of this experience the new UNESCO Water Centre can surely build various forms of non-formal water- related educational activities for children and young people.
- 16. Water education for children and youth The River - A tool for secondary education Open & Distance Learning (ODL) package for environmental education at secondary level. Developed in the framework of European Diploma in Environmental Science and Education
- 17. Promoting awareness of water issues through informal water education The new UNESCO Water Centre should enhance similar initiatives by employing staff not only from water-related disciplines but also from the Faculty of Fine Arts (School of Visual and Applied Arts and School of Film Studies). Furthermore, our centre will promote research in History and Philosophy of water, the water supply and sanitation through the centuries, ancient hydro- technologies, etc
- 21. Education for transboundary water cooperation The main asset of AUTh regarding transboundary water cooperation is the UNESCO Chair on Sustainable Management of Transboundary Waters and Conflict Resolution (established in 2003 at AUTh) The UNESCO Chair and INWEB contribute for the last 12 years significantly in the cooperation through numerous: •Education and training activities •Projects •Books •Publications
- 22. A window to the world
- 24. 24 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development “plan of action for people, planet and prosperity” People (SDGs 1–6) Prosperity (SDGs 7–10) Planet (SDGs 11–15) Peace SDG 16 Partnership (SDG 17)
- 25. 6.6 Ecosystems 6.1 Drinking water 6.5 Water management 6.2 Sanitation and hygiene 6.3 Wastewater and water quality 6.4 Water use and scarcity 6.A and 6.B Cooperation and participation
- 26. 6.1.1 Safely managed drinking water services 6.2.1 Safely managed sanitation and hygiene services 6.3.1 Wastewater safely treated 6.3.2 Good water quality 6.4.1 Water use efficiency 6.4.2 Level of water stress 6.5.1 Integrated water resources management 6.5.2 Transboundary basin area with water cooperation 6.6.1 Water-related ecosystems 6.A Enhance international water cooperation 6.B Participation of local communities
Editor's Notes
- Mission: Advancement of the science and practice of IWRM to address water related challenges by regional /international/global action through: New knowledge Interdisciplinary scientific research Networking Capacity building Develop Promote and Infuse sound practices for IWRM around the Mediterranean region, the Balkan and elsewhere
- Implementing IWRM is the most comprehensive step towards achieving SDG 6. Integration across the water and water-using sectors is essential for ensuring that water resources are shared effectively among many competing demands, particularly in transboundary contexts. Address global challenges via integrated interdisciplinary partnership in regional, national and international level. Assemble diverse research teams and lead interdisciplinary and trans-disciplinary water research projects.
- Global economic growth, emerging economies and a population that topped 7.5 billion in 2017 are putting great stress on the earth's ecosystems. Pressures are both global and local: they impact simultaneously on such crucial earth systems as the carbon, nitrogen, and water cycles. The earth could suffer sudden, non-linear, and potentially devastating outcomes from climate change, environmental pollution, acidification of the oceans, loss of biodiversity, and depletion of resources, including energy and groundwater depletion. A shared focus on economic, environmental, and social goals is a hallmark of sustainable development. This triple bottom line represents a consensus on which the world should build.
- The 2030 Agenda states that its Goals and targets balance thethree dimensions of sustainable development (social, economic and environmental). Dominant in the 2030 Agenda are the 5 Ps, as we call them. The first which stands for People demonstrates the need to end poverty and hunger, in all their forms and dimensions, and to ensure that all human beings can fulfil their potential in dignity and equality and in a healthy environment. The second P as for “Planet” Signals our obligation to protect the planet from degradation, promoting sustainable consumption and production, sustainably managing its natural resources and taking urgent action on climate change, so that it can support the needs of the present and future generations. The third P, the one for “Prosperity” Points out our need to coincide with nature. to ensure that all human beings can enjoy prosperous and fulfilling lives and that economic, social and technological progress occurs in harmony with nature. This is the way to live in Peace certainty by promoting strong Partnerships. One of which is this network we are all part of.
- Στόχος 6: Διασφαλίζουμε τη διαθεσιμότητα και τη βιώσιμη διαχείριση του νερού και των εγκαταστάσεων υγιεινής για όλους To καθαρό και προσβάσιμο νερό για όλους είναι ένα απαραίτητο κομμάτι του κόσμου στον οποίο θέλουμε να ζούμε. Στον πλανήτη υπάρχει επαρκές γλυκό νερό για να το πετύχουμε αυτό. Εξαιτίας όμως των κακών οικονομικών συνθηκών και των ελλιπών υποδομών, κάθε χρόνο εκατομμύρια άνθρωποι και ιδίως παιδιά, πεθαίνουν από ασθένειες που συνδέονται με την ανεπαρκή παροχή νερού, την αποχέτευση και την υγιεινή. H λειψυδρία, η κακή ποιότητα του νερού καθώς και οι ανεπαρκείς εγκαταστάσεις υγιεινής έχουν επιπτώσεις στην επισιτιστική ασφάλεια, στις επιλογές των νοικοκυριών και στις ευκαιρίες εκπαίδευσης για τις φτωχές οικογένειες στον κόσμο. Η ξηρασία πλήττει μερικές από τις φτωχότερες χώρες του πλανήτη, επιδεινώνοντας έτσι την πείνα και την κακή διατροφή. Μέχρι το 2050, τουλάχιστον ένας στους τέσσερις ανθρώπους είναι πιθανό να ζει σε μία χώρα όπου θα βιώνει χρόνια ή επαναλαμβανόμενη έλλειψη γλυκού νερού. Ο Στόχος 6 επιδιώκει: 6.1 Έως το 2030, επίτευξη καθολικής και ισότιμης πρόσβασης σε ασφαλές και προσιτό πόσιμο νερό για όλους. 6.2 Έως το 2030, επίτευξη επαρκούς και ισότιμης πρόσβασης σε εγκαταστάσεις/συστήματα υγιεινής για όλους, βάζοντας τέλος στην «ανοιχτή αφόδευση», δίνοντας ιδιαίτερη προσοχή στις ανάγκες των γυναικών και των κοριτσιών καθώς και εκείνων που βρίσκονται σε ευάλωτες καταστάσεις. 6.3 Έως το 2030, βελτίωση της ποιότητας του νερού, μέσω της μείωσης της ρύπανσης, της εξάλειψης των απορρίψεων, της ελαχιστοποίησης της απελευθέρωσης επικίνδυνων χημικών και υλικών, της μείωσης, κατά το ήμισυ, του ποσοστού των ανεπεξέργαστων υγρών αποβλήτων, καθώς και της σημαντικής αύξησης της ανακύκλωσης και της ασφαλούς επαναχρησιμοποίησης του νερού σε παγκόσμιο επίπεδο. 6.4 Έως το 2030, ουσιαστική αύξηση της αποδοτικότητας της χρήσης του ύδατος σε όλους τους τομείς και διασφάλιση της βιώσιμης άντλησης και προμήθειας πόσιμου νερού, προκειμένου να αντιμετωπιστεί η λειψυδρία και να μειωθεί σημαντικά ο αριθμός των ανθρώπων που πλήττονται από την έλλειψη νερού. 6.5 Έως το 2030, εφαρμογή της ολοκληρωμένης διαχείρισης των υδατικών πόρων, σε όλα τα επίπεδα, συμπεριλαμβανομένου μέσω της διασυνοριακής συνεργασίας, ως ενδείκνυται. 6.6 Έως το 2020, προστασία και αποκατάσταση των υδατικών οικοσυστημάτων, συμπεριλαμβανομένων των βουνών, των δασών, των υδροβιότοπων, των ποταμών, των υδροφόρων οριζόντων και των λιμνών. 6.α Έως το 2030, επέκταση της διεθνούς συνεργασίας και υποστήριξη της οικοδόμησης-ικανοτήτων των αναπτυσσόμενων χωρών σε δραστηριότητες και προγράμματα που σχετίζονται με το νερό και την υγιεινή, όπως τη συλλογή υδάτων, την αφαλάτωση, την αποδοτικότητα χρήσης των υδατικών πόρων, την επεξεργασία υγρών αποβλήτων, και τις τεχνολογίες ανακύκλωσης και επαναχρησιμοποίησης ύδατος. 6.β Στήριξη και ενδυνάμωση της συμμετοχής των τοπικών κοινοτήτων στη βελτίωση της διαχείρισης του νερού και των εγκαταστάσεων υγιεινής.
- To realize “availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all”, it is essential to manage competing demands for water resources and to exploit synergies between water uses, reuse and recycling, and ecosystem protection and ambient water quality. Increased access to sanitation [6.2] must be matched by increased wastewater treatment [6.3] if good ambient water quality [6.3] and healthy water-related ecosystems [6.6] are to be sustained. Good ambient water quality [6.3] greatly facilitates the provision of safe drinking water [6.1], which in turn must be provided sustainably [6.4], without negative consequences for water-related ecosystems [6.6]. Increasing recycling and safe reuse [6.3] and water-use ef ciency [6.4], under the right governance structures [6.5], makes more water available for drinking [6.1] and other uses [6.4], and can reduce impacts on water-related ecosystems [6.6]. Thus, sustainable water supply and use [6.4], good ambient water quality [6.3] and healthy water-related ecosystems [6.6] are interdependent.