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INPIM Electronic Newsletter #4

Friday, March 16, 2001

In this Issue:

1. Newsletter #11 Published, Available online
2. Contest for Innovative Irrigation Ideas and Technologies
3. Scientific American Article on Irrigation
4. Youth Water Forum
5. Conference Announcement "Globalization and Water Management: The Changing
Value of Water"
6. Call for Contributions to website on Smallholder Irrigation

1. Newsletter #11 Published, Available Online

The INPIM Newsletter has been published and will be mailed to INPIM members soon. In the meantime, anyone may access the newsletter for free online at http://www.inpim.org. Contents include:

Sixth Int'l Seminar Announcement
TOT for PIM Held in India
Innovative Irrigation Management Reforms in China's Shaanxi Province
Six Irrigation Management Models from Guanzhong
Transfer of Management to User Associations: What Next? by Hervé Plusquellec
From PIM to Local IWRM in North Bengal
Participatory Privatization of Irrigation Management in Turkey
NEWS
Suggested Readings
Participatory Irrigation Management in Armenia
NGO Launches Training Program for Turkish Engineers'
Uttar Pradesh Sodic Lands Reclamation
Country News

2. Contest for Innovative Irrigation Ideas and Technologies

Prize money US$ 10,000
Deadline for applications: 1 October 2001

A competition has been launched by the Irrigation Association to create the best in irrigation equipment, technology or management to serve the world's small agricultural holders. The prize will be awarded November 5, 2001 at the Irrigation Association Keynote Breakfast in San Antonio, Texas, USA.

Entries will be judged on the following criteria:

* Affordability
* Novelty or creativity in approach
* Ease of application or operation
* Practical usefulness in upgrading smallholders
* Durability
* Maintenance simplicity
* Cost/benefit relationship
* Ability to replicate

The winner will be selected by judges chosen by the Global Task Force for Water Saving Irrigation. This program is endorsed by The World Bank, Winrock International (contributor of the prize money), The Irrigation Association, and International Development Enterprises.

All ideas remain the property of the entrants. The sponsors are not responsible to the entrants to protect the idea or product from disclosure or any form of challenge. Awarding the $10,000 prize is at the sole discretion of the judges.

Contestants should present their ideas in writing on no more than three (3) pages. Pictures that explain the idea or products are welcome. Judges may request further information from the entrants.

For more information please contact
The Irrigation Association
6540 Arlington Blvd.
Falls Church, VA 22042-6638
E-mail: SmallholdersContest@irrigation.org
http://www.irrigation.org/ia/worldbank.html

3. Scientific American Article on Irrigation

Water was the cover story of Scientific American magazine's February issue. From the Editor's Introduction: "Peter H. Gleick of the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment and Security describes the magnitude of the world's pressing water problems in terms of skyrocketing usage and ominous limits to the known supplies. Sandra Postel of the Global Water Policy Project then narrows the discussion to irrigation, the single largest use for freshwater, and to the prospects for improving this vital agricultural technology."

Full text is available online at:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/2001/0201issue/0201currentissue.html

4. Youth Water Forum

The Hogeschool Zeeland will organize the Youth World Water Forum in Vlissingen, the Netherlands, from 25-28 June 2001. The official press presentation will take place on 22 March 2001. Attached to this email message you will find the preliminary programme of the Youth World Water Forum and an application form.

In the period up to 1 April a worldwide recruitment among young people who want to participate in this unique conference will take place. Candidates must be: Young people between 18 and 25 years old:

· Students: studying (Bsc, Msc)/taking a doctor's degree (Phd) in water-related issues· Young professionals: several years working experience in water related issues· Engineers, economists, legal advisers, communication and information experts, etc. We especially focus on students and young professionals living in the following river basins:

- Tisza
- Yellow River (Hoang Ho)
- Colorado
- Paraná
- Zambezi
- Aral sea
- Ganges
- Jordan

We kindly ask you to forward this information to potential participants in your organization and network. In case you have a website at your disposal, could you please include this information? And we would be glad if you could forward it in your mailing list. Please notice that the applicationform must be returned before 2 April. (So 3 weeks from sending this email.)

With kind regards,

Organization committee Youth World Water Forum

Hogeschool Zeeland
Vlissingen, the Netherlands
http://www.ywwf.net
e-mail: ywwf@mail.hzeeland.nl
Tel.: +31 0118-489000

5. Conference Announcement "Globalization and Water Management: The Changing Value of Water"

Hosted by Dundee University Water Law and Policy Programme & American Water Resources Association

University of Dundee
Scotland,
August 6-8, 2001

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
To discuss the impacts of globalization on water management in the early 21st century, providing an opportunity for an interdisciplinary approach to water resources management (law, policy, economics and science).

* Examine models of integrating law, policy, economics and science.

* Present emerging state of the art approaches to the valuation of water resources.

* Review the changing trends of ownership and control of water resources.

* Identify practical actions and management strategies to deal with the projected stresses on water resources examples of true integrated land and water management.

* Examine water law issues, such as problems with existing legislation, enforcement mechanisms, incentives for compliance, dispute avoidance mechanisms.

For full conference announcement and electronic submittal of abstracts, see: http://www.awra.org/meetings/Dundee2001/

6. Call for Contributions to website on Smallholder Irrigation

This request comes from Itaru Minami, Water Resources Specialist at the World Bank: "We are currently designing our web site on Irrigation for Smallholders. This is the invitation of your contribution to the web site in terms of electronic image files or photographs of smallholding irrigators that can be used for our web design, web addresses that you think relevant to us, and news/events relevant to our topic that you would like to post on our website. Thank you in advance. I will let you know once it is ready, maybe in a week or two."

Contact: Itaru Minami
Rural Development Department, The World Bank
E-Mail: iminami@worldbank.org
Tel: (202) 473-6444
Fax: (202)614-1092