2-5 May 2007, Tehran - Iran

4-8 December 2006 – Lahore, Pakistan

22-24 March 2007 Antalya, Turkey

Pakistan, 4 – 8 December 2006

The INPIM Secretariat has been relocated from Washington DC to Islamabad Pakistan. The new address is: INPIM Secretariat, House No. 13, Street No. 1 Korang Town, Islamabad Pakistan, Tel: +92-51-5958238, +92-51-5819038 Fax: +92-51-5958239

INPIM is very pleased to announce that Dr. Intizar Hussain will become the next Executive Director, to start his position on April 1, 2006. Dr. Hussain is presently a Senior Economist with the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), based in Sri Lanka.

This new publication, edited by Bryan Randolph Bruns, Claudia Ringler, and Ruth Meinzen-Dick discusses water rights on two fronts: contents and opportunity. The contents clearly illustrate the usefulness of different water allocation tools, from administrative allocation to markets, provided that the tools fit their environment, are properly evaluated, and are not ideologically approached. The book is opportune because the need to legally recognize customary and informal water rights is now pressing.

This new publication by Laurent Moussa Compaore, Jean-Paul Luc and Erve Marcel Ouedraogo (Association Regional pour L'Irrigation et le Drainage; Burkina Faso) defines and compares irrigation systems according to performance indicators.

The latest edition of the INPIM E-Newsletter is now available.