2 sessions on multiple-use at the 5th World Water Forum

The multiple-use of water will be a topic at the 5th World Water Forum in Istanbul in March 2008. Two sessions will be organised:
1. Multiple uses and functions of water services to accelerate achievement of MDGs: How Multiple Use Services can be conceptualized and characterized? What benefits for what users?
2. Governance and support to multiple-use services: outcomes of current experience and how barriers can be removed?
Background documents for the sessions have now been posted on a virtual meeting space on the World Water Forum’s website Preliminary debates on MUS main questions and recommendations will be organised on the platform late August and early September. The MUS Group Symposium in Ethiopia will then be the next milestone in the preparation of the WWF5 sessions. At that event, discussions will be held and policy recommendations will be formulated, and these will ultimately feed into the WWF5 session. Finally, there is a political process leading to the Forum. The first meeting is organised in Paris on 11 and 12 September 2008 at UNESCO and should not be restricted to government representatives. The topic coordinator will bring forward the draft key messages crafted on MUS for MDGs.

We encourage you to share your experiences and messages, via the virtual platform or through one of the other meeting spaces.
For more information, contact Daniel Renault (Daniel.renault@fao.org),or go to the Virtual Space Meeting at www.worldwaterforum5.org, (see mus area under theme 2, topic 2.4)