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AGENDA
Monday,
17 June
7:00
- 9:00 p.m.
Informal Gathering (at Penn's View Hotel)
Tuesday,
18 June
8:30
- 9:45 a.m.
9:45
- 10:15 a.m.
BREAK
10:15
a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Climate and water resources in the region: What exists?
Setting (as it was until 2001)
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Geopolitics
of the region
- Watercourse
law
- The Afghan
situation
12:15
- 1:15 p.m.
LUNCH
1:15
- 3:00 p.m. Transboundary
Water Issues 1
1:15
- 2:15 p.m.
- The Amudarya
River Basin (pre-2002)
- The Karakum
Canal (past, present, and future)
- Regional (CAR)
management of the Aral Basin water
2:15
- 3:00 p.m.
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The
Amudarya River Basin (post-2002)
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What
happens when you add Afghanistan?
3:00
- 3:30 p.m. BREAK
3:30
- 5:00 p.m.
Transboundary Water Issues 2
3:30
- 4:00 p.m.
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Upstream
vs. downstream water quantity, quality
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What's
climate got to do with it?
4:00
- 4:30 p.m.
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SWOC
(Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Constraints) for improvement
of water situation in Central Asia
- For Aral
Basin
- For CAR
Basin States
- For Afghanistan
- For Amudarya
Basin
- For Karalkalpakstan
4:30
- 4:45 p.m.
4:45
- 5:00
5:00
- 6:00 p.m.
Put issues/comments on line
Wednesday,
19 June
8:30
- 9:00 a.m.
Answer questions
that were e-mailed via Internet exposure
9:00
- 10:00 a.m
Forecasting Climate; forecasting water, in terms of monitoring weather
and climate.
9:00
- 9:30 a.m.
- What do they
have in terms of early warning?
- What do they
have in terms of capacity building?
9:30 - 10:00 a.m.
- A special emphasis
is on Afghanistan and the Amudarya River Basin
- Seasonal,
interannual
- What exists
(methods, technology, techniques)
- Outside
the region
- Inside
the region
- What is
needed?
- What can
we get realistically?
10:00
- 10:30 a.m.
BREAK
10:30
a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Early Warning
Systems (From EWS to Flashpoints)
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For
streamflow
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For
demand (demographic changes, seasonal demands)
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For
drought
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For
agricultural production
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For
Flashpoints (disaster avoidance)
12:00
- 1:15 p.m. LUNCH
1:15
- 2:30 p.m.
Monitoring
the water and climate resources of the region: What do we have? What
do we need?
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-
What
priority (i.e., what to do first?)
2:30
- 2:45 p.m.
BREAK
2:45
- 4:30 p.m.
What
next?
4:30
- 5:30 p.m.
Prepare material for website
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