International Water Association (IWA) December Newsletter

This December newsletter from the IWA showcases many of their accomplishments. For example, if you click on Articles you will find
an enormous number of publications. Just the Sustainability category has about 27 articles in itself. Almost any interest in the
water resources field is represented here. You can also leave comments on any article, and help strengthen the dialogue.

IWA is a worldwide organization with a number of offices, and a great amount of its activity is in cyberspace. This is a very
valuable resource for any water resources professional.

Tim Smith
Sustainable Water Resources Coordinator
Government Web Site, http://acwi.gov/swrr/
Archive Web Site, http://sites.google.com/site/sustainablewaterresources/

Group Spaces: Your Experiences

The European Commission is funding the collaborative project PREPARED: Enabling Change. Over a period of five years, PREPARED will
work with urban utilities to develop advanced strategies to meet anticipated challenges in the water supply and sanitation sectors
brought about by climate change.

PREPARED: Enabling Change

To help facilitate communications, PREPARED have set up their own group work space on the WaterWiki. The group are using this space
to circulate minutes from meetings, presentations, and country profiles.

It was important that the space should be access controlled. Project Management Team member, Bianca Van der Wolf, says:

"We already have a website for public purposes. But the Wiki is being used by the PREPARED partners for sharing documents and
deliverables which are not suitable for public viewing".

The Watch space feature <http://iwawaterwiki.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a578d2ab39eceebc7c8842973&id=ddae8f32a5&e=57c889369e>
has been particularly useful to the group - this lets all members of PREPARED know when a new document is uploaded:

'This is useful as you can see when a page has been updated'.

Would you like to set up a private work space on the WaterWiki?
just contact Victoria Beddow <mailto:vbeddow@iwap.co.uk> , the WaterWiki Community Manager.

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Did you know we now have over 600 articles on all areas of water, wastewater and environmental science?

We recently met Dr Alireza Yazdani from Cranfield University who specialises in water distribution systems analysis. He says:

"I use the WaterWiki to look up technical water-related terms and topics which cannot be found in Wikipedia and other online
resources ... looking for them in books, papers and other printed matter takes time! so I find the Water Wiki an extremely handy and
reliable information source".