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Related Programs and Projects

Under various other funding programmes, the BMBF supports projects which are related to IWRM, but are situated in partner countries that are not necessary developing or emerging countries, and projects which focus more strongly on the development and adaptation of water technologies or on sustainable land use.

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  Guanting-Sustainable water and agricultural land use in the Guanting watershed under limited water resources

  A Sino-German consortium with four German and four Chinese partners was formed in the mid of 2009 to develop a master plan to achieve sufficient water availability and quality in the Guanting river basin. Guiding principle of the Guanting project is to ensure sustainable use of water and land resources in the catchment area of the Guanting reservoir, taking into account the climatic, ecological and economic conditions.
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  International Water Research Alliance Saxony - IWAS

  The International Water Research Alliance Saxony - IWAS aims to contribute to an Integrated Water Resources Management in hydrologically sensitive regions by developing specific system solutions as a response to some of the most pressing water-related problems of our time. IWAS is a project of the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, the Dresden Technical University and the Stadtentwässerung Dresden (member of German Water Partnership - GWP). The project is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
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  Global Change and the Hydrological Cycle (GLOWA)

  The essential aim of GLOWA is to develop decision support systems which will allow for a sustainable and farsighted water management at basin scale. For this purpose science-based and integrative strategies have to be designed in close cooperation with local partners and stakeholders. Especially global environmental changes like climate change and the variability of precipitation as well as interactions between biosphere/land use and the hydrological cycle are taken into account for the selected model regions in addition to the prevailing socioeconomic framework conditions.
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  WISDOM: Water-Informationsystem for the Mekong-Delta

  The WISDOM project's function is to support the development of IWRM strategies in the Mekong Delta in southern Vietnam through the development of an Information System. This system will contain data from numerous research disciplines - such as hydrology, sociology, demography, and earth observation. The integration of this data will enable the end-user of the system to perform analyses on specific questions; and thus will supply a tool for regional planning. Sixteen German and Vietnamese partners collaborate for this purpose. A further focus of the project is an internal PhD programme coordinated by the United Nations University in Bonn.
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  Underground Water Management in the Karst Region in Indonesia

  The district of Gunung Kidul in the Yogyakarta Special Province is one of the poorest regions of Java. This largely accounts to the karstic underground with surface water immediately draining away and resulting in water scarcity during the months of the dry season. In addition to the poor harvest in agriculture, the drinking water supply is strongly impaired. Therefore, an interdisciplinary group of scientists together with industrial partners work on an underground water reservoir by the use of adopted and sustainable technology. This should also open up perspectives to other karstic regions.
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  Concepts for sustainable water management in the problem areas of greater Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod: IWRM in the catchment areas of the rivers Oka and Volga

  In order to stabilize Russias high economic growth rates, it is necessary to sustainably use and safeguard water and renewable energy resources. This particularly holds true under varying conditions, such as climate change and the fundamental socio-economic changes currently taking place in Russia. An appropriate IWRM requires the use of efficient technologies. For the regions of greater Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod, specific requirements arise in connection with other parts of the river basins of the Oka and Volga.
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  Improving natural resource management in the Aral Sea Basin: The transdisciplinary ZEF/UNESCO project in the Khorezm region of Uzbekistan

  Reducing the inefficient and excessive use of natural resources, while improving rural livelihoods, is important for the sustainable development of Uzbekistan. A pilot project led by the Center for Development Research (ZEF) at the University of Bonn is dedicated to improving the economic efficiency and ecological sustainability of the agricultural sector in the Khorezm region. An important part of this research is working with local stakeholders to design and successfully implement technologies and innovative solutions developed during the project's lifetime.
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  Research for Sustainable Development of the Megacities of Tomorrow

  The Federal Ministry of Education and Research's funding priority on the sustainable development of fast growing megacities is focussing on "energy- and climate-efficient structures in urban growth centres". It is a global focussed component of the German Federal Government's "High-Tech-Strategy for Climate Protection". The most important characteristic of this approach is its link to the concept of sustainable development. This approach is different from others insofar as the project themes are not orientated to individual issues. They are rather directed towards concrete areas of need and solution-orientated. Ecological, economical and social aspects of the development of energy- and climate-efficient structures in urban growth centres are to be considered in a closed and long-term concept.
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