Rios Vivos (Live Rivers) supports not only issues related to the Prata River Basin but, also, acts and articulate in the Amazonian Basin in Brazilian and Bolivian territory. The Coalition has several members from Latin American countries and is a reference for civil society.
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South African Underwater Ecology Society
SAUES' main focus is Marine Ecology, and involves sport divers and Marine Scientists in conducting ongoing experiments, surveys and research on the extensive coral reef ecosystems, and adjoining habitat, off the Southern African coastline. South Africa.
South Asia Consortium for Interdisciplinary Water Resources Studies
SaciWATERs is a Consortium comprising of senior scholars based in academic institutions and NGOs in the different South Asian countries (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka). The consortium will govern a 'virtual water resources academy' for capacity building in order to make water management contribute to food and livelihood security of the disadvantaged communities of South Asia.
Sulabh International Social Service Organisation
Sulabh works to promote human rights, environmental sanitation, health and hygiene, non-conventional sources of energy, waste management and social reforms through education, training and awareness campaign. India.
Sustain Water
Thematic network on Sustainable Policies for Promoting Water Conservation Technologies and Practices’, trying to change the present scenario of water pollution and its devastating consequences in India.
The Barefoot College
The College addresses problems of drinking water, income generation, electricity and power, as well as social awareness and the conservation of ecological systems in rural communities. The College encourages practical knowledge and skills rather than paper qualifications through a learning by doing process of education. India.
Third World Centre for Water Management
The primary objective of the Centre is generation of new knowledge, synthesis of existing knowledge, and dissemination of information on water management.
Water Research Commission (WRC)
They work to generate new knowledge and to promote the country's water research purposefully, owing to the view held that water would be one of South Africa's most limiting factors in the 21st. century. South Africa.
Water Research Commission - WRC
The WRC's promote coordination, communication and cooperation in the field of water research. South Africa.
Water, Research and Training Center for a new Burma (WRTC)
The WRTC works for the Burmese-Myanmar peoples by promoting and improving their access to research and training opportunities and education in the water and rural sector in Burma-Myanmar and abroad.
On July 8-9, 2008, Indonesian NGOs held a two day workshop in Bandung, West Java on the ADB’s pipeline Integrated Citarum Water Resource Management (ICWRM) Project. The occasion marked the launch of the Peoples Alliance for Citarum (Aliansi Rakyat untuk Citarum-ARUM).
The International Steering Committee of the 5th World Water Forum and the Programme, Political Process and Communication Committees will hold their third
series of meetings in Istanbul on 4-6 November 2007. This will also be the occasion to gather the thematic and regional coordinators for the
first time in order to determine how to involve a wider constituency of organisations to represent contrasting perspectives.
It is heartening to find the social movements and the civil society realizing the importance of the growing threat to food sovereignty as the main cause to rally around. By Devinder Sharma.
