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IAHS Newsletter
No. 73

November 2001

News from Maastricht, July 2001(see page 7)

Some of the IAHS Assembly participants at the splendid dinner held at “La Butte aux bois”, Lanaken, Belgium on 25 July 2001.
Photo by Norman (Jake) Peters.

Contents
1 News from Commissions ................................
16
From the President ....................................................
2 Reports on Meetings ................................ 24
From the Secretariat ..................................................
3 Forthcoming Events ................................ 27
International Hydrology Prize ................................
6 Other News ................................................................
30
Tison Award.............................................................

Outcomes from Maastricht................................7

32
Changes to National Representatives ................................

Task Force for Developing Countries..........................
11 Calendar of Meetings ................................ ?
12
IAHS Press...............................................................

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From the President
At the splendid opening ceremony of the Sixth
Scientific Assembly of our Association in the
Maastricht Exhibition and Congress Centre, agroup of people in local costume of theseventeenth century marched in loudly playing
musical instruments. The last person had a dog
who appeared not too happy to be taking part in
the procession. The group assembled on the stage
in the exact formation of “Night Watch” byRembrandt, which we saw in the National
Museum (Rijksmuseum) in Amsterdam on theway to Maastricht. Even the dog exactly
portrayed the one seen in the Rembrandt.
It was with great pleasure that I became thenineteenth President of IAHS during thismagnificent opening ceremony. To succeed suchan outstanding President as John Rodda is tough,as John has devoted so much effort in leading the
Association to its current level of success inscientific activities and its cultural reputation. On
behalf of all the members, I would like to thankhim and congratulate him on the excellent job he

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has done over the last six years; and ask him tocontinue contributing to IAHS in the future. I
know it is even tougher for me to succeed inmaintaining the scientific reputation of IAHS andto keep it responding to the needs of thecontemporary world. I shall try to do my best andI ask for the cooperation of all IAHS members inthis endeavour.
Hydrology has successfully served thedevelopment of nations at a basin scale. Now wehave a new and demanding client, the Earth.
Hydrology as an aspect of the earth sciences is
expected to work jointly with other disciplines
towards the development of the Earth simulator.
At the same time, with respect to hydrology as an
aspect of water resources management we have to
face up to the suffering of people worldwide
regardless of national boundaries. We have toserve both objectives at very different scales as
earth scientists and as people’s doctors ofhydrology. We have been trying hard but havenot been successful enough in demonstrating ourcapability to serve our client the Earth. We can do
it much better by collaborating more closely withleading science programmes such as the GEWEX(Global Energy and Water Experiment)/WRAP(Water Resources Applications Project), theWater Cycle Theme of IGOS (the Integrated
Global Observing Strategy), BAHC (Biospheric
Aspects of the Hydrological Cycle), HELP
(Hydrology for Environment, Life and Policy),
FRIEND (Flow Regimes from International
Experimental and Network Data), JIIHP (Joint
International Isotope Hydrology Programme) andwith good old friends like, IHP (the International
Hydrological
Programme),
HWRP
(the
Hydrology and Water Resources Programme),
and IAEA (the International Atomic Energy
Agency).
Before Maastricht, we had new and very
successful discussions about the IAHS strategicscienceagendaovertheinternet
http://serv2.cee.yamanashi.ac.jp/iahs and using amailing list IAHSV1@serv2.cee.yamanashi.ac.jp.
I thank you all very much for your contributions.
As you know, many interesting thoughts wereintroduced and discussed such as “scientificcuriosity vs societal missions” and “Gaia
Genome”. In order to obtain a better profile in theinternational community, Dr Murugesu Sivapalan
proposed that IAHS activities should assume alaser-like focus and adopt the Prediction of
Ungauged Basins, as a specific focus. There wasenthusiastic support for this idea and even a
concrete workshop proposal. I am so glad to havetaken part in such broad discussions with a groupfrom all over the world (that included somemembers not so well acquainted with IAHS) thateventually converged on a specific focus subject.
It was unfortunate that so few internet discussantswere present at Maastricht for the Workshop on

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the Science Agenda of IAHS, as this meant there
was a lot to settle afterwards. But we did agree tofocus on ungauged basins as an IAHS crosscutting inter-commission initiative. We agreed tocreate a new working group, designating theInternational Commission on Remote Sensing,the International Commission on Tracers, theWorking Group on Theoretical and Experimental
Hydrology in All Scales and the Working Groupon GEWEX/BAHC as the most closely relatedgroups within IAHS and asked Dr Al Rango tocoordinate the initiation. I hope the discussions on
ungauged basins bring the great scientificpotentials
assembled
topractical
use.
Dr Al Rango is organizing the first informal
workshop on 13 December 2001 in San Francisco
during the AGU Fall meeting. Another focus that
we agreed on was Global Water Assessment,
proposed and lead by Dr Charles Vorosmarty.
The other important working group
established at Maastricht was the Working Groupon Hydrology 2020. This working group, madeup of 12 promising young members led by
Dr Taikan Oki, will look into the potential andopportunities of hydrological sciences in theforeseeable future and produce a report by
Sapporo 2003. Free and fresh imagination always
opens a new era. At the inauguration,
Dr Zbigniew Kundzewicz, Chairman of theHydrology 2000 Working Group (active 1983–
1987), reviewed the Hydrology 2000* report andpointed out that the current dynamic
developments in information technology, geographical information systems and satellite uses
had not been predicted, while many theoreticalinterests such as scale issues had been predicted
but remain unsolved to date. I believe that theobjective of the Hydrology 2020 Working Groupis not necessarily to correctly predict future
developments accurately but to create enthusiasm
for future challenges. Prior to Sapporo, the viewsof the working group will be invited forpresentation at the next Kovacs Colloquium in
Paris, June 2002. I wish the working group all thebest for a good start to their discussions.
There is now a rising interest in water in theinternational political arena. The Third World
Water Forum, the World Water Assessment
Programme, UNESCO’s priority on water
sciences etc. reflect new strong political
initiatives. We are expected to demonstrate ourpractical use there. Knowledge on hydrologicalprocesses and water resources, both natural andmanmade, on local, basin, regional, continental
and global scales is badly needed everywhere in
the world. There are great opportunities in front* Hydrology 2000 (The report of the Hydrology 2000 Working
Group), edited by Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz, Lars Gottschalk &Bruce Webb, Publ. no. 171 (1987), price £14.50 now only £9.00,
100 + x pp., available from IAHS Press.

2of us. I sincerely hope that all the IAHS activities,
whether continuing or newly established, willserve their planned objectives. Let us start
immediately and work hard for such anhonourable, enjoyable and rewarding mission.
Kuni Takeuchi

From the Secretariat
Maastricht is over. It was a very successful
assembly, even if we would have been happier,not only from a financial point of view, with moreparticipants. It was pointed out that among thereasons for the low number of participants was
the duration of the Assembly. We shall try to takethat point into account for future events andespecially for the next IUGG (International Unionof Geodesy and Geophysics) General Assembly,
to be held in Sapporo, Japan, in 2003. In
Maastricht there were first of all scientificsymposia (4) and workshops (7). There were also
administrative meetings of the Bureau and of theCommissions, two Plenaries and a lot of Working
Parties. Later in this issue of the Newsletter you
will find reports on some of the scientificmeetings. You will find them also on the IAHS
web site. Others reports will follow, both in thenext issue of the Newsletter and on our web site.
It is very difficult to summarize so many
discussions in just a few words. Nevertheless, I
shall try—my impression is that hydrologists
want to be useful to society. A great emphasis is
now given to “water problems”. The scope ofthese problems is far larger than that of hydrology
as it encompasses social and economical
problems, but without hydrological data andhydrological knowledge all solutions to these
problems would remain poor and not at all
sustainable. This concern is reflected in the“Maastricht Manifesto” unanimously adopted by
the partic ipants of the Assembly (and publishedlater in this Newsletter). To provide their input tosociety, hydrologists should develop and apply
their science. For this reason, in addition to our
traditional Commissions, the existing Working
Group on Theoretical Hydrology and the
IAHS/WMO Working Group on GEWEX(Global Energy and Water Experiment) have been
confirmed and some new working groups havebeen appointed—like the Hydrology 2020
Working Group, composed of young hydrologists
from all over the world who have been charged tothink about the future of hydrology; the so-called“Ungauged basins” Working Group which isdevoted to very practical hydrological problems,
but which will probably need some theory to get
the best from remote sensing. Plans for otherpossible working groups linked to large
international programmes include one on Water
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Isotopes Techniques in Hydrology; but somefurther discussions, and of course the agreementof the corresponding programmes are still needed.
An IAHS–IAPSO (our sister association dealing
with physical oceanography) Joint Commission
on Groundwater–Seawater Interactions has beencreated and we decided to join what is now the
IWA (International Water Association)/IAHR(International
Association
for
HydraulicEngineering and Research)/IAHS Joint Committee on Hydroinformatics. Such links with otherscientific and technical bodies should be developed in the future, in a flexible way, especially tocope with the challenges of global hydrology.
The number of visitors to our web site(http://www.cig.ensmp.fr/~iahs), even if it does
not make of us a star of the web, is verysatisfactory. Special attention is given to thepresentation of IAHS Press publications, and to
the announcement of hydrological meetingsorganized, sponsored and/or supported by IAHS,
but more needs to be done to meet the needs of
IAHS National Committees and individual
members. An historical section has just beencreated and will be developed. We think that
more links to national hydrological sites,
especially those of national hydrologicalorganizations would be useful. Please send me
such addresses, together with all your suggestions
which will be carefully reviewed and, hopefully,
as far as possible implemented.
We are now looking towards 2003, eventhough we have a lot to do next year, when two
major events will take place, both of them inJapan. The first one will be the Third World
Water Forum (Kyoto, Shiga and Osaka, 16–23
March 2003), where we shall promote the placeof hydrological sciences for solving water
problems of the twenty-first century. The second
one is the XXIII IUGG General Assembly(Sapporo, 30 June–11 July 2003), the generaltheme of which will be “State of the Planet”. Our
Commissions have elaborated a lot of proposals
for symposia and workshops, which have to bereviewed within IUGG and according to the
publishing capacity of IAHS Press. These “pure”
IAHS symposia and workshops should fit within
one week, probably the second week of theGeneral Assembly. Unfortunately it seems
impossible at the present time to place in thissame week all the joint events we will organize
with other IUGG Associations. A first meeting
was held last summer in Sapporo where the Local
Organizing Committee presented the venue. A lot
of exchanges within IAHS and IUGG are ongoing
and the final programme for Sapporo 2003 should
be definitely defined in San Francisco early
December. It will be immediately posted on our
web site and published in the next issue of theNewsletter.
Pierre HubertInternational Hydrology Prize
In July 2001 in Maastricht, Prof. Igor
Shiklomanov, from the St Petersburg State
Hydrological Institute (Russia) received the 2001
International Hydrological Prize, jointly awarded
by UNESCO, WMO and IAHS. Below you willfind the nomination by Prof. K. Takeuchi, IAHS
President, and the response from Prof.
Shiklomanov.
Ladies and gentlemen
It is my great fortune to be able to start off mypresidency with the honourable role of presenting
the International Hydrology Prize to my good oldfriend Igor. Professor Igor A. Shiklomanov wasborn in Tver Region, Russia, on 28 February 1939.
He graduated at Leningrad Hydrometeorological
Institute in 1961 as an engineering hydrologist andwas given a doctorate of geographical sciences onhydrology and water resources at the same institutein 1977. He became a Professor of this famous
Institute in 1985 and the Corresponding Member ofthe Russian Academy of Natural Sciences on
Hydrology and Water Resources in 1991. He has
been the Director of the Institute since 1981, after
being the Deputy Director for Science between 1972
and 1981.
Professor Shiklomanov’s major scientific areas
include:– Developing the methods, assessing andforecasting human impacts on river runoff andwater resources; studying changes in river water
inflow and scientific generalization of measures
for solving water problems.
– Hydrological generalization of river and waterbody hydrology and water resource redistribution.
– Dynamics, forecasting and management of water
resources, water use, and water availability
regionally and globally.
– Hydrological and ecological studies of water
systems.
– Detailed studies of anthropogenic global climatechange effects on hydrology, water resources,
and water management problems anddeveloping the necessary adaptation measures.
Thus his expertise is mostly in global assessment ofwater resources, its availability, needs,
development, problems, changes, estimates etc.
Indeed he has been serving as the major scientist forcollecting and analysing global water resources
data. His first contribution on this subject was anarticle “Exploitation of the Earth’s water
resources” co-authored by G. P. Kalinin, publishedin 1974 in the epoch-making UNESCO IHPpublication “World Water Balance and Water
Resources of the Earth” which is still the only
reliable worldwide assessment of the Earth’s
freshwater resources.
His recent contributions on freshwater
assessment were again conducted under the IHP-IV
programme in 1990–1996 and produced reports
titled “Assessment of the Impact of Climate

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Variability and Change on Hydrological
Characteristics and World Water Resources at the
Beginning of the 21st Century”. These reports are
the most important scientific documents serving as
the bases of the current water policy planning in the
UN agencies and many non profit-making
organizations including the World Water Vision of
the Word Water Council. The final publication
based on those reports is the book “World Water
Resources at the Beginning of the 21st Century”
now in press at Cambridge University Press.
Professor Shiklomanov served and has been
serving as a member or chair of a large number ofcommittees, boards, councils etc. He has been the
Deputy Chairman of the Russian National
Committee for UNESCO’s International
Hydrological Programme (IHP) since 1990 andserved as the Chairman of the Intergovernmental
Council for IHP from 1992 to 1994. He has been
serving as a key Member of the Scientific Steering
Committee for the Global Energy and Water
Experiment World Climate Research Programme
since 1992 and was a lead author of theIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change WG2Third Assessment Report 1998–2000. Since 2000 hehas been the Chairman of the Working Group on
Water Resources of WMO’s Commission for
Hydrology and above all, he has been a VicePresident of the IAHS International Commission on
Surface Water since 1999.
His contribution to the scientific community as
well as to the people of the world is tremendous andhe deserves to be the first winner of the

4International Hydrology Prize this century.
Congratulations!

Professor Shiklomanov responded as follows:
Ladies and gentlemen, dear colleagues!

I am very grateful to IAHS, UNESCO, WMO, for thegreat honour of the International HydrologicalPrize, and I am very much obliged to my friends andcolleagues for my nomination and selection.
Hydrology is my science. I devoted 45 years of
my life to it and for the last 20 years I have been
Director of the St Petersburg State Hydrological
Institute—the oldest, leading institute in Russia in
the field of hydrology. Our institute will be 82 years
old this year. Every day I come across various
aspects of modern hydrology and water resources.
Quite often our science is thought to be in crisis. If
you ask my opinion I would frankly say “no—there
is no crisis in hydrological science”.
Hydrology came into existence to answer
practical needs and in the twentieth century it has
progressed both dynamically and comprehensively:hydrological networks, theory, field and laboratory
experiments, remote sensing methods, mathematicalmodelling and computerization, and GIS
technologies have been developed. Hydrology andwater resources became more and more closely
linked with ecology, economics, and social sciences.
To a large extent the development of hydrology inthe last 40 years has been promoted by international
cooperation.
However all the experience accumulated in thepast century needs to be critically analysed andharmonized. It is quitepossible that in certain
periods the role of somefields of hydrologicalscience and practices was
significantly overplayed
at the expense of others.
This is only natural.
For instance, theintense inclination
towards mathematicalmodelling andcomputerization did notcomplement but was doneat the expense of theprocess-oriented studies
that involve tedious field
and laboratory
investigations. Such
inclination quite often
becomes a “fashion” andnegatively affects thedevelopment of thefundamental basis ofhydrological science andits applied andenvironmental-protection
aspects.
For example, acollege graduate whocomes to hydrology
Dr John Rodda (left),Prof. Igor Shiklomanov and Dr Kuni Takeuchi at Maastricht.

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usually has good computer skills and has generalideas about hydrological processes. Computers canbe loaded with software for any hydrological task.
Just enter the necessary data, press the buttons andyou will have quick results. This creates an illusionthat all hydrological problems are solved. If this is
the case, why get engaged with high-cost
experiments which require significant effort, time,knowledge and hard work?
Maybe this is one of the reasons (not justfinancial) of insufficient attention to observations
and experimental aspects of hydrology we havewitnessed in recent years? Maybe we really know
everything about hydrological processes, cancompute everything, and will be able to model
everything? If we hydrologists as scientists think
like that, then we can say with certainty:“hydrological science is in crisis”.
I do not think so. It is no secret that manymodels are based on the most elementaryalgorithms, very rough approximations that are far
from adequate representations of hydrologicalprocesses. This is primarily so because there aremany things that we don’t yet know, or perhaps it isbetter to say, we know more than we can explain. I
am sure we must pay more attention to thedevelopment of experimental hydrology; and first ofall, it should be done through IAHS as an
authoritative, nongovernmental organization, notburdened with official projects of governmentalorganizations such as UNESCO, WMO and UNEP.
In the last 10 years the problem of anthropogenic climate change, global warming, and thestudies of the possible consequences, including
those related to water resources became very
popular in the natural sciences and in hydrology inparticular. This problem is often the subject ofscientific discussions that result in different
opinions.
Some scientists believe that temperature rise has
nothing to do with the increase in CO2
concentration, considering it as a puremanifestation of the natural cyclic fluctuation of theclimate. To their mind future cooling is inevitable.
Some believe that actually there is no CO2 increaseor warming, and the figures usually presented toillustrate the problem reflect shortcomings of our
non-representative observational network or
inaccuracies in the estimation methods we use,when it is possible to obtain any required results.
The problem of forecasting intense global
warming has many uncertainties. Quite possibly thishypothesis will not be confirmed in the future. But
even if this is the case the hypothesis of global
warming is very useful and, in my mind it
contributes a lot to the development of science. It
unites scientists of different disciplines—
climatologists, hydrologists, oceanographers,
economists and others, which is very important anduseful for all. It stimulates the development of oursciences, and finally it compels governments toallocate more money to our investigations.
I believe that the problem of global warming is
one of the positive factors for the development ofmodern hydrology.
My whole life is closely related to the State
Hydrological Institute, and the Prize I have been
awarded is, first of all, important recognition of theinstitute’s work, and its considerable contribution tointernational cooperation.
My home country, Russia, possesses 10% of theworld’s renewable water resources, and we fullyrecognize our responsibility for the study andrational use of the water resources in the large
territory of our country.
Experience accumulated from hydrologicalinvestigations in Russia and generalization overvast territories with very sparse hydrologicalnetworks has become very useful for problems
related to assessment of the world’s water
resources. We have been studying this problem for
more that 30 years, and the role of international
cooperation is very important.
In fact, it would not be possible to do somethingimportant and useful related to this problem without
help and support from such internationalorganizations as UNESCO, WMO, IAHS, and all
our foreign colleagues. I would like to express mysincere gratitude to them all.
The state of the world water resources, theinadequate supply of clean freshwater in many
regions of the world, water conflicts between
different countries, forthcoming water crises—theseare our common problems, our concerns andresponsibilities. Those problems are important for
both our generation and future generations. They
can be solved only if there is a general
understanding of how exclusive and uniquefreshwater is for life and the well-being of humanity,and how sensitive it is to unwise and harmful
activities. This understanding should be based on afundamental knowledge in the field of hydrology
and water resources.
During this IAHS Assembly we will discuss thedevelopment of hydrology within the framework of
IAHS, and, in particular, the initiative andproposals made by Prof. Kuniyoshi Takeuchi, theIAHS President, for a long-term programme “IAHS
Decade on Ungauged Basins”. I absolutely andenthusiastically support this brilliant suggestion. It
is especially useful under the current reduction of
the world hydrological network.
I would like to emphasize that the solution of thischallenging problem has not only great practicalbut also scientific importance. To my mind, we canbelieve that we have successfully studiedhydrological processes and phenomena only when
we are able to solve various hydrological problems
for ungauged basins, i.e. this problem should be afirst priority for IAHS.
I am happy that I work in such an interestingand important field of science as hydrology. I havebeen lucky to participate in the international
scientific cooperation, and communicate closelywith you my friends and colleagues, and I deeply
appreciate such a high recognition of my modest
contribution to hydrology and water resources.

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Tison Award
Dr Linda See received the Tison Award in
Wallingford on 17 September 2001, during thecelebration organized for the inauguration of the
new IAHS Press office. This year the panel was
led by Prof. Karsten H. Jensen (Lyngby,
Denmark), then President of the International
Commission on Atmosphere–Soil–Vegetation
Relations. Below is the nomination for the award
by Prof. Zbigniew Kundzewicz, IAHS Editor.
The Tison Award for the year 2001 is bestowed
upon Dr Linda See from the School of Geography,
University of Leeds, UK, for two papers recently
published in “Hydrological Sciences Journal”(HSJ), of which she is the first co-author:••

See, L. & Openshaw, S. (1999) Applying soft computing
approaches to river level forecasting. Hydrol. Sci. J.
44(5), 763–778.
See, L. & Openshaw, S. (2000) A hybrid multi-model
approach to river level forecasting. Hydrol. Sci. J. 45(4),523–536.

The papers deal with applications of artificial
intelligence (AI) in hydrological sciences, and flood
forecasting in particular. The important area ofriver flow and stage forecasting is rather classical,
but the approaches taken by Dr See are indeed
novel and innovative. She made use of suchmodelling techniques as: artificial neural networks,
fuzzy logic, and genetic algorithms. These methods,
originally developed in systems sciences by Zadeh,
Kohonen, Holland, Goldberg, Kosko and others,
have been imported into hydrological sciences as
they hold potential for applicability. They are notderived from well-established equations ofmathematical physics, which rigorously describehydrological processes in a micro-scale. However,they offer an attractive practical alternative,
especially in cases where it is difficult to use
physically-based models.
After having dealt with individual models,intercomparison of models and selecting the best
approach for particular conditions, Dr See tried tointegrate models into a hybridized construct
combining conventional modelling methods with AIbased approaches to provide a better overallsolution than could otherwise be achieved with theuse of a single technology. She suggested several
methods of integration and used different evaluation
measures.
Even if some systems approaches to hydrology
have been criticized as “curve-fitting exercises”,
which neither improve our insight nor
understanding, in the opinion of present writers, themethodology in question does not belong to thiscategory.
Both papers in question were well received by
the anonymous reviewers who evaluated thesesubmissions to “Hydrological Sciences Journal”.
Papers by Dr See and Dr Openshaw can be seen as
being embedded in a set of several contributions,published recently in HSJ, on hydrologicalapplications of neural networks, genetic algorithms
and fuzzy sets. This fact documents growing interest

Pierre Hubert enjoying presenting the Tison Award to
Linda See.

of the hydrological community in these novel
approaches. It is hoped that these methods may leadto enhancements of conventional models. As
mentioned by Dr See, extensive testing is stillrequired, on a wider range of station types andcatchments, to see how they behave for many realworld events. Yet, the methodology has alreadygained attention for operational hydrology—neutral
network flood forecasting software is being
operationally used by the Environment Agency in
the UK.
Despite her young age, Dr See has gatheredconsiderable international experience, having
already worked in four countries: Canada,
Germany, Italy (for the intergovernmental Food andAgriculture Organization), and recently the UK.
Besides co-authoring the papers mentioned inthis citation, Dr See has played an important role asa reliable reviewer of several papers submitted to“Hydrological Sciences Journal”.
Congratulating Dr See, I wish to express thehope that she will continue to submit excellent
papers to “Hydrological Sciences Journal” and toassist us in reviewing papers of others, and maybe
she will also become involved in other IAHS
activities.

Linda See responded by thanking Pierre and
IAHS for the Award. She mentioned that it wasvery encouraging that soft computing techniques
like fuzzy logic and neural networks were being
recognized in a positive way as they are often
considered black box models of little hydrologicalvalue because they tell you very little about theunderlying processes. Dr See pointed out that theapplication in this case is operational flood
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forecasting models do not work very well.
Therefore, if the black box models work better,then that should be sufficient argument to use
them. Finally, she pointed out that she was not
advocating that the existing models should be
replaced by these “newer” black box models, butthat they should be used together in a multimodelling approach.

Outcomes from Maastricht
Manifesto of the IAHS Maastricht
Assembly
The following Manifesto, prepared by Reinder
Feddes, Chairman of the Maastricht 2001
Scientific Committee, draws together thehighlights, conclusions and recommendations of
the symposia and workshops held at Maastricht
and includes suggestions made by participants
during the General Concluding Session on 27
July.
A world water crisis is coming. Accelerating
demand is exceeding the finite resources overwidening regions of the globe. The rising threat
from floods and droughts, erosion, pollution andclimate change are increasing the danger tocivilization. On the other hand the availability ofclean drinking water forms the entry to socioeconomic development for a large part of theworld.
The participants in the Sixth Scientific
Assembly of the International Association of
Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) held in Maastricht
from 18 to 27 July 2001, under the theme of “A
New Hydrology for a Thirsty Planet” should be
involved in the initiatives being taken by
governments and institutions to solve water
problems. We pledge that IAHS will participate
actively in moves to alleviate these threats.
We, members of IAHS, offer this Manifesto to
the delegations at the International Conference on
Freshwater (Bonn, December 2001). We hopethat they will respond to our offer by giving
opportunities for interactive partnerships andconstructive cooperation between science andpolicy. It is our wish to extend our efforts towards
the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable
Development in Johannesburg (Rio+10), theThird World Water Forum (Kyoto, Shiga andOsaka, 2003) and beyond.

Awareness of society
We have the knowledge that shortage and poor
quality of freshwater constitute severe threats tohuman health, that floods and droughts kill many
people and damage property and that soil erosion
reduces
agric ultural
production.
Naturalhydrological systems are altered by changing land
use resulting in large-scale degradation oflandscape, harnessing and polluting river andgroundwater systems, increasing the effects offloods, droughts and salinization.
IAHS, in cooperation with social sciences,
will attempt to offer the decision makers theproper socio-economic priorities on our water
resources. We shall hope to make the public andthe decision makers more aware of thevulnerability of water systems, involve
stakeholders in water management plans andfoster the sustainable management of our preciousand scarce freshwater resources.

Hydrological systems under stress
The hydrological system is an integral part of the“system earth”. The resistance and resilience ofthe hydrological system are often overestimated.
Moreover, because of the amplifying effect of thehydrological cycle on climate, large-scalechanges to hydrological conditions can result inclimate change. Therefore a clear choice in thelevel of exploitation and adaptation of water
entities should be made on the basis of theconsequences of these choices.
IAHS commits itself to the observations andresearch which will lead to better understanding
and assessment of the hydrological system and its
interaction with the atmosphere, geosphere andbiosphere. IAHS will work together with otherinternational organizations on Global Water
Assessment.

Overcoming the lack of data
Despite the importance of reliable data, hydrometeorological networks in many countries havedeclined seriously in the last decades. The
development of strategies, techniques andmethodologies to acquire these data at local,
regional and global scales and the establishmentof mechanisms for making these data freely
available are vital. Information technology
enhances the link between mathematical models
and data. In this respect remote-sensing-based
information requires analysis and translation intohydrological characteristics.
We underline the importance of maintaining
monitoring networks, the collection of data ofhigh quality and standard quality assurance.
Therefore, IAHS strongly encourages the sharingof hydrological data, information, knowledge andtechnology in an international framework,
particularly in international river basins. In thisrespect IAHS has established a Working Groupon Poorly Gauged Basins.

Research and education
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cooperation of natural and social scientists,
including the institutional aspects, socioeconomic conditions and public participation.
This holds especially for sensitive areas such as
high mountains, coastal lowlands, (semi)arid
areas and humid tropics.
IAHS commits itself to operate as a catalyst,
and will pay special attention to scientists fromless developed countries. IAHS focuses on
fundamental hydrological research and on thedevelopment of strategies to solve water
problems. Major IAHS activities will be directed
towards close cooperation with international
research and education programmes andorganizations. In the short term, young scientistsof IAHS will present their views on the
Hydrology of 2020.

Reports on symposia and workshops
Symposium 1: Water-related Threats toSocial and Economic Developments—
Invited Lectures
Symposium 1 addressed several questions related towater-related threats to socio-economic development:
economics, ecology, health, water law, food security
and flood control. It also focused on the World Water
Assessment Programme.
In the first paper, Bernard Barraqué (France)
showed the differing evolution of the services
regarding water distribution: public services or privatecompanies. He reminded us that the three “E”s should
be considered together: Economic sustainability,
Environmental
sustainability
andEthicalsustainability. He described different situations inNorth America, Europe and southern countries. He
explained that in the developed countries, if theservices were not efficient for a reasonable cost, thencustomers would try to get alternative solutions,which is the case in eastern Europe and in the big
cities of the Third World, where public services are
now inefficient. His point of view is that in manycases, regarding water distribution, capacity buildingin the public services is much more important thanprivatization.
Wim van der Hoek (Sri Lanka) made a presentation
regarding case studies in Asia in which several
diseases are linked to water quality. His presentation
underlined the need for more research dedicated to thefollow up of the recharge of drinking wells, to thedefinition of better practices in the field of irrigation.
He then underlined the links between water uses, waterpollution and health of the populations. More researchshould be undertaken not only in the field of water
quality but also in the field of water uses and of the
impact of irrigation and drilling on the water actuallyavailable to the people.
Jackie King (South Africa) emphasized the evident
links between hydrologists and freshwaterhydrobiologists and ecologists. She gave examples ofsuch collaboration, underlining the good results towhich they have led. She stressed the needs for
information such as hydrological time series andresults from hydrological and hydraulic research ashydrologis ts and ecologists have to work together toprevent the deterioration of rivers and freshwater8

quality. One of her conclusions was regarding training
as she expressed her belief that all related topics should
be taught together in universities and in post-graduate
training courses.
Houria Tazi Sadeq (Morocco) underlined the needfor a multidisciplinary approach to all water-related
questions. She explained that the lack of collaboration
between hydrologists and social scientists was a
nonsense, mainly in a context of crisis regarding water
resources in many countries. It should then lead people
to consider more the demand than the offer, which is
not the case at the time being. So she emphasized thefact that hydrologists should listen more to the world
they live in, in order to provide it with useful solutions.
On the other hand she recognized that social scientists
should also rely on hydrological results to make theirrequests more legitimate.
U. C. Sharma (India) presented a case study in
India to remind us that the growing population of theworld would need more food and then a more efficientuse of limited water resources. He reminded us thatwater resources were unequally distributed in space
and time and that hydrologists should consider water
resources at a global scale but not only in order to
respond to the solicitations of the population of theplanet. It means that hydrologists will also have tothink of a better use of water resources especially inthe countries where it is rare.
Carlos Tucci (Brazil) reminded us that floods are anatural process which can lead to hazards when flood
plains become populated. He mainly emphasized thefact that technical tools and principles of urban
drainage control are well known in developed
countries but that their direct application in developing
countries has generally not been successful. That’s
why he suggested that more research be done in thefield of specific applications or adapting techniques.
Otherwise, regarding the growing urban population—
often economically poor in developing countries—
which means no facilities and no infrastructures, there
will probably be an increase in the number of flood
events which lead to loss of human lives and toextensive damage.
Gordon Young (UNESCO) presented the World
Water Assessment Programme (WWAP), which is a
UN programme endorsed by all UN agencies. The
programme serves as an “umbrella” for coordination ofexisting UN initiatives within the freshwater
assessment sphere. Added to contributions fromgovernments and UN agencies, expertise of
nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) will be
requested. In that sense he explained and demonstrated
that a NGO such as IAHS has much to offer to theprogramme.
Eric Servat, Montpellier, France

Symposium 2: Regional Management of
Water Resources
This symposium gave a holistic and comprehensive
overview about many aspects of integrated water
resources management. It represented the generalorientation of IAHS towards a more holistic andcomprehensive approach in water management. This
became obvious by a subdivision of the symposium
into three parts:• Lessons learned from past management practices• Sustainable regional water management for
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The first topic considered the need to evaluate theeffects of past management practices. It was shownthat in some cases the planned effects of water
management could not be realized. Often, practicalwater management was influenced by external forces
in a way that was not foreseen during the planning
period. A general result of the case studies presented in
the first part of the symposium was the need for apermanent monitoring of water management systems
in order to react to unforeseen developments as well as
assess the effectiveness of the management practices
themselves. In this part of the symposium, not only
experiences in regional water management, but also
examples of how to adapt water management facilities
to changing conditions were demonstrated.
The second part of the symposium was dedicated toregional water management under conflicting interests.
Water management has to consider especially themounting public expectation for healthy rivers andwetlands. Degradation of the environment becomesless acceptable. Examples of conflicting interests
discussed here were those between ecology andeconomy, between competing water users and between
competing usages of different components of thehydrological cycle. It became obvious that a more
holistic approach is needed in water management andthat administrative and disciplinary boundaries limit
our ability to react in a sustainable way. The extensionof these boundaries seems to be an urgent challenge ofthe near future.
The third part of the symposium was dedicated tothe evaluation of new techniques for integrated water
resource management. It particularly covered the wide
field of methodological developments in modelling atdifferent scales and presented applications of different
types of models addressing open questions in practicalwater management.
In general, the response to the call for papers forthis symposium was very good; in total 78 abstracts
were submitted. However, the different parts of thesymposium were covered unevenly, with 23% of theabstracts dedicated to the first part, 30% to the second
part and 47% to the third part. Unfortunately it was
only possible to accommodate about half of all theabstracts submitted as full papers for oralpresentation.
Within the symposium different approaches toquantify sustainability were presented. Nevertheless it
became obvious that the selection of criteria ofsustainability still depends on the specific problems
and on the specific structure of the stakeholders
involved in these assessments. However, many
participants were confident that in the futuresustainability will become an accepted part of theevaluation of water management projects.
The concept of integration of the human and thenatural sector was a substantial part of many
presentations. Through case studies from developing
countries it became obvious that especially nonstructural measures of water management e.g. control
and legal regulations of the access to water resources
cannot be planned without consideration of thespecific social and cultural background. A general
reform of water policy and law seems to benecessary in many parts of the world. A principle
which was formulated by the Department of Water
Affairs and Forestry (DWAF) of South Africa “Somefor all for ever” which “sums up the goals of: accessto a limited resource (some), on an equitable basis(for all), in a sustainable manner, now and in the
future (for ever)” (originally formulated by DWAF in1997) could be a guideline for the direction in whichwater policies should be going under a global watercrisis.
An interdisciplinary approach to water
management which was often demanded does notmean that we should replace the science of water
management as a substantial part of the hydrologicalsciences by a conglomerate of ecology, social
sciences, economy etc. The scientist in water
resources management should be able tocommunicate with representatives of these disciplines
and to integrate them into the processes of thesolution of our common water management problems.
From the past we can learn that the multi-objective
problems of water management often have multiple
solutions. It would be very dangerous if ourrecommendations were biased by our trust in expertsof other disciplines without an open discussion of theadvantages and drawbacks of their suggestions. Here
we are challenged to be cooperators but also criticalpartners who are able to make their own assessments
and to develop their own recommendations about themultiple ways of future developments. There is no
simple and unique way out of the looming crises bystand-alone solutions. The actual trends to simple
answers of complex questions, the trend to generate
solutions which are based just on the forces of themarket, on a steering of social processes, on legal
regulations only or on structural measures is not
appropriate to cope with future problems.
Nevertheless after the Maastricht Assembly we areconfident that the combinations of these tools will
determine the future of water management.
Andreas Schumann, Bochum, GermanyWorkshop 1: Flood Forecasting with
Reference to Global Change
Presenters in Workshop 1 discussed a variety of issues
and strategies based on their regional issues andopportunities. They chose solutions that reflected theirlocal needs and realities and considered issues inmodel complexity:• In tropical regions where relatively persistent
weather patterns may be found, monthly orseasonal precipitation predictions may be generated
through studies of teleconnections andextrapolation of longer term cycles of rainfall andother climatic variables.
• For relatively data-rich regions, a framework waspresented for assessing the risk of flood damage
from initial precipitation inputs and the generationof runoff through to risk (and implications) of dike
failure.
• Other presenters discussed issues in model
selection such as determining optimal resolution
requirements and suggesting that soft computing
approaches may be considered as an option to
avoid unnecessary complexity and costs.
• Also shown was a method to use downscaled
numerical weather prediction model output data
instead of historical meteorological records toimprove ensemble streamflow forecasts. An
example of a coupled atmospheric–hydrologicalmodel which may provide feedback to eventually
improve precipitation forecasts and subsequent
streamflow predictions was shown as well.
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Workshop 2: Hydrological Impacts ofLong-term Exploitation and Climatic
Evolution: Contributions of Studies Basedon Tracers and Modelling
The rapidly increasing global demand for freshwaterand the high vulnerability of water resources require
new hydrological methods and concepts. The evolutionof the climate and long-term anthropogenic
exploitation of water resources can lead to transientconditions in the flow of water and the transport ofsolutes whose initial and boundary conditions are to befound in the distant past. Contributions to thisworkshop showed that the use of natural andenvironmental stable and radioactive isotope andwater-chemistry tracers can be combined with model
calculations, to produce information on water mixing
and the age distribution of mixed waters. In particular,very old groundwaters from aquifers such as the
sandstones in the Great Artesian Basin of Australia or
the Nubian sandstone in the Sahara desert, have thepotential to give the long-term information that issought. In arid zones, the infiltration toward
groundwater is limited to the surface and as aconsequence the present spatial evolution of thegroundwater composition records past hydrologicalconditions. In these regions, even the unsaturated zoneof an aquifer can potentially be an archive of climatic
evolution. The evaporative outflow from shallow
aquifers accumulates chemical elements close to thesoil surface. In special cases such as the Andean
Altiplano, climatic conditions could be reconstructed
for the time of the retreat of a palaeolake as an initialstage, in that residence times of groundwaters wereassessed in the area. Isotope and water-chemistrystudies, e.g. of precipitation water, rivers andwatersheds, yield a better insight into the hydrology
and chemical composition of waters in such hydrosystems. The mining of groundwater, i.e. its excessiveuse, especially in arid zones and urban environments,
and anthropogenic impacts on the quality of water,such as the excessive use of fertilizers, are among theworst impacts to degrade resources. In the papers
presented, the combined use of tracer techniques andnumerical modelling helped both reconstruct pastconditions and predict the impact of climatic change on
the hydrological cycle. A better knowledge of theinfluence of the long-term exploitation and climatic or
geological evolution on aquifer systems is a clue to thesustainable use of water resources.
Anne Coudrain, Montpellier, FranceWorkshop 4: High-Mountain Regions:Hydrological Processes and Cryological
Processes, Models and the Variability of
Available Water Resources; in
Anticipation of the “Year of theMountains 2002”
The essential general conclusions from Maastricht
Workshop 4 were:• The very great significance of snow, ice and waterin mountain regions, for the water supply of large
continental areas and for the flow regimes far
downstream of many of the world’s large rivers
deserves much more and broader attention.
• With respect to future climatic scenarios and theirimpacts on the water cycle, the scientific researchin the fields of Mountain Hydrology, Glaciology

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and Ecosystems should be given a high level ofpriority. Specific attention should be given to theless developed mountain regions.
• The scientific approaches need to beinterdisciplinary, and a particularly strong
interconnection of hydrological sciences is neededwith the atmospheric/climatic science communities
and with the ecosystem groups (such as theInternational Geosphere Biosphere
Programme/Biospheric Aspects of theHydrological Cycle Mountain Initiative). It should
always be borne in mind that more or less all of the“natural” variations in time of hydrological fluxes
are controlled and caused by atmospheric dynamics
and radiative processes.
Specific conclusions from the seven W4 sessions wereas follows:• The orographic control of precipitation amounts
and distribution in high mountain regions is still an
outstanding problem in the reliable assessment ofprecipitation by observation networks and in model
approaches. And there is still great uncertainty inthe altitudinal gradients of precipitation.
International field and model experiments like theMesoscale Alpine Project MAP (SOP 1999,
European Alps) are of particular importance toimprove our understanding and in developing
advanced scientific and practical tools.
• Besides their great significance in the global
climate system, the variations in the cryosphere (ahuge and complex storage and release system intime scales of between days and millennia) needcareful monitoring and model efforts also with aview to their effects on sea-level variations.
Promising model approaches are being developed
to estimate the global glacier mass balance (15–20% of present-day sea-level rise is caused by themass loss of mountain glacier systems). However
there are regions where, at the same time, glaciersshow positive mass balances, which indicates thegreat complexity of the combined ocean–landsurface–atmospheric climatic systems,
reminding us that the present increase of annual
mean air temperature is only one part of the climatechange signal. Present-day hydrological andcryospheric model development, as shown in thesessions, is now more soundly physically based andcan therefore handle non-stationary developments
much better. In this respect the very importantworldwide monitoring and data collection efforts
deserve to be mentioned here.
• In the USA a new NASA programme is on the way
to refine remote sensing techniques.
• One session was devoted to tropical glaciers andmountain hydrology which illustrated the great
difference in their behaviour from mid latitude
glaciers behaviour.
• It was made clear that any change in the areal distribution, extent and length of glaciers and of wintersnow cover will affect the variability and regime ofdownstream river flow with corresponding
consequences for the availability of water for watersupply and reservoir management. In addition it
will also affect the frequency and severity of
extreme hazards, i.e. floods and droughts.
H. Lang, Zurich, Switzerland

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Workshop 5: Application of Geographic
Information Systems and Remote Sensing
for Quantifying Patterns of Erosion andWater Quality
The objective of the workshop was to provide
participants with the basic knowledge for theapplication of geographic information systems (GIS)
and remote sensing tools for quantifying the spatial andtemporal patterns of erosion and water quality acrossthe landscape. Techniques for combining satellite andaircraft remotely-sensed data with digital elevation
modelling (DEM) and ground truth data in a GIS werediscussed to show ways to extend point data to field
and regional scales. Prof. D. E. Walling (Exeter, UK)
opened the workshop by presenting an excellent
overview of the economic costs of erosion andsediment problems, and provided an estimate of the
global cost of on-site and off-site impacts of soil
erosion on agricultural land of US$400 billion per
year. Six papers and eight posters were presented togive the participants examples of the sequence of
events from measurements to maps of soil loss andwater quality.

evolution and processes on a geological time scale is aprerequisite for a proper understanding of the present
situation in relation to protection and remediation, andto be able to forecast the impacts of global change andfuture human activities.
Jacobus de Vries, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Task Force for Developing
Countries (TFDC)

For many years IAHS has been sending
Hydrological Sciences Journal (HSJ) and Red
Books free of charge to institutions in financiallydisadvantaged countries to support hydrologicalresearch and education in these countries andprovide up-to-date reference material on waterrelated issues. In 2001 IAHS publications havebeen sent to 73 institutions in the 46 countries
listed in the table below.
Jerry Ritchie, Beltsville, Maryland, USA
To investigate the usefulness of this activity
the recipients were asked to briefly outline theirinterest in and need for the publications sent,
Workshop 6: Hydrogeological Evolution
indicating if and in what way the publications
in Coastal Lowlands: Role of Densitycontribute to the assessment of practical waterand Compaction-Driven Groundwater
resources problems that address the needs of theFlowpopulation in these countries.
This workshop brought together scientists working on
Responses came from recipients in 20
groundwater and environmental problems associated countries. All of them acknowledged the greatwith the highly vulnerable coastal lowlands and saline value of the IAHS publications for theiraquifers in (semi)arid regions. About 30 attendants
participated in the discussions around nine respective countries. For many countries HSJ iscontributions, including: reconstruction of palaeo- the only regular international hydrological journalhydrological evolution of coastal areas to explain
received that brings not only news of the latest
present conditions and processes; models for developments in hydrology but also information
simulating coupled processes of multi-density flow, about forthcoming conferences and meetings. It
sedimentation, compaction, sea level change andwas underlined in many letters that without HSJ
dynamics of the saltwater/freshwater interface; side
effects of groundwater extraction, water management there would be no continuous link tohydrologyinfinanciallyand land reclamation; transport and physico-chemical international
processes connected with sebkahs, evaporites and disadvantaged countries. The Red Books werepalaeo-marine environments in arid areas. The overall also highly valued and frequently used,conclusion was that a thorough knowledge of thealongside HSJ, by researchers anduniversity students. Moreover, as the
Table listing countries and the number of organizations in each ofthese countries that are currently supplied with IAHS publications
university libraries are open to the public,
sent on behalf of TFDC.
the publications were also used by different
Country
No. Country
No. Country
No. governmental organizations involved in
Albania1
Ecuador1
Pakistan2
water resources planning and management.
Algeria1
Ethiopia
2
Panama1
The great value of HSJ for the education ofAngola1
Ghana
1Papua New Guinea 1
the PhD students was stressed in many
Argentina
4
India
6
Philippines1
letters. National specialists with highBangladesh
1Indonesia
2
Romania1
competence in hydrology and water
Benin
1
Jordan1
Russia4
resources are badly needed in many
Bhutan1
Kenya2
Senegal2developing countries. There were examples
Botswana
1
Malawi1
Sri Lanka
1in the responses showing that the material
Brazil
4
Malaysia2
Swaziland1published in HSJ and the Red Books was
Bulgaria
1
Mali
1
Thailand1
directly used for the amelioration of the
Burkina Faso
1
Mozambique
1
Uruguay1living conditions of poor people (e.g. urban
Chile3
Myanmar1
Uzbekistan
1
water projects in Chile).
China
3
Namibia
1
Yugoslavia
1
The economic situation for education
Colombia
1
Nepal
1
Zambia1andresearch is unfortunately becoming
Cuba
1
Niger
1
worse
in many of the recipient countries
Czech Republic 1
Nigeria4

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(notably in the countries of the former USSR)
and they cannot afford to subscribe to scientificjournals or purchase new books. The solidarity
with colleagues in financially disadvantaged
countries demonstrated for many years by IAHS
is highly appreciated and acknowledged. The
respondents urged IAHS and sponsoringorganizations to continue this fruitful andimportant activity helping to address some of
the most acute issues of today, namely cleanwater for all people, mitigation of floods anddroughts, and sustainable development of water
resources.
Lars Gottschalk, Oslo, Norway

IAHS Press
Red Books
The following five new titles in the IAHS Seriesof Proceedings and Reports (Red Books) havebeen published. A description, the contents andabstracts of each contribution can be seen at the
IAHS web site:
http://www.cig.ensmp.fr/~iahsHydro-ecology: Linking Hydrology andAquatic Ecology
Edited by M. C. Acreman
Applied hydro-ecology involves the study of changes
in aquatic ecosystems resulting from alterations to ariver’s flow regime, channel structure or water quality.
As demand for water rises, yet concerns about ourenvironment and man’s effects on it increase, interestin hydro-ecology has rapidly expanded. IAHS has recognized hydro-ecology as a
key developing area ofhydrological science. At
the IUGG General Assembly in Birmingham 1999,
IAHS held its first hydroecology workshop entitled“Riverine
Ecological
Response to Changes inHydrological
Regime,Sediment Transport andNutrient Loading”. This
volume contains an overview paper by M. J. Dunbar& M. C. Acreman followed by 13 papers presented
at this workshop.
The papers cover awide range of topics from data collection, throughmathematical analysis to the application of models. The
focus of the publication is on physical aspects of hydroecology, primarily the impacts of changes in flow
regime, although sediment transport and water quality
feature in some papers. The papers also cover a wide
geographical area, including Mexico, USA, Nigeria,
China and South Africa and various parts of Europe.
The overview paper attempts to set these studies in context of the state of the art of hydro-ecology at the endof the twentieth century and to look at the challenges
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As a whole the papers confirm the interdisciplinary
nature of hydro-ecological science and theopportunities that exist for hydrologists to work as partof a team with hydraulic engineers, ecologists,
geomorphologists, chemists and other experts. It is
hoped that this volume will bring hydro-ecologicalscience to the attention of hydrological scientists
worldwide and stimulate further collaborative researchand solutions to environmental problems in the future.
Publ. no. 266 (September 2001), price £33.00 (membership price£24.75; 2002 price to members in financially disadvantaged
countries only £9.00), 160 + xiv pp., ISBN 1-901502-41-4

Remote Sensing and Hydrology 2000
Edited by Manfred Owe, Kaye Brubaker, Jerry Ritchie& Albert Rango
Remote sensing applications in hydrology have progressed considerably since the International Workshop
on Hydrologic Applications of Space Technologies* in
1985. This volume, the proceedings of the International Symposium on Remote Sensing and Hydrology
2000 (Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, April 2000), isclear evidence of that progress and represents the stateof the art at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
Keynote papers by Dr Gert Schultz on Present andfuture perspectives of remote sensing in hydrology andwater management, and Satellite remote sensing of precipitation: progress and problems by Dr Eric Barrett,provide overviews, whilst the other 123 papers detailmany operational applications as well as attempts to
exploit a more varied portion of the electromagnetic
spectrum. The papers are grouped in 10 sections:• Precipitation• Snow and ice• Large area experiments• Evapotranspiration• Radar applications• Microwave soil moisture• Geographic information systems• General hydrology• Wetlands• Hydrological modelling
Publ. no. 267 (August 2001), price £80.00 (membership price£60.00; 2002 price to members in financially disadvantaged
countries only £16.00), 610 + xiv pp., ISBN 1-901502-46-5

Regional Management of Water Resources
Edited by A. H. Schumann, M. C. Acreman, R. Davis,
M. A. Marino, D. Rosbjerg & Xia Jun
Effective and better integrated water resources management at the regional scale is needed more than ever tocomplement the increasing demand on water resources.
Water scarcity, in terms of quantity and quality, increasingly causes serious problems for drinking water supply
and food production, especially in arid and semiarid
areas. But not only is demand rising, the paradigms ofwater management are shifting in increasing
recognition of the importance of ecosystem functionsin providing the life support system for the planet.
These challenges call for innovation among the scientific community. This volume, comprising 34 papers
presented at Symposium 2 at Maastricht, July 2001,
embraces a holistic and comprehensive approach towater management and addresses the issues in three parts:* Hydrologic Applications of Space Technology (proceedingsof a workshop held at Cocoa Beach, August 1985), edited by
A. I. Johnson, Publ. no. 160 (December 1986), price £29.50 now
only £9.00, 488 + xii pp.

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• Lessons learned from past
management practices The
case studies presented
demonstrate the need forpermanent monitoring ofwater management systems
to enable reaction to unforeseen developments and assess
the effectiveness of the
management practices.
Monitoring can also provide
a more comprehensive viewof economic, ecological andsocial impacts of water
management systems. Several
examples of adaptation ofwater management facilities
to changing conditions are described.
• Sustainable regional water management for
conflicting interests There is mounting public
expectation for healthy rivers and wetlands;
environmental degradation is becoming lesstolerable. The examples of conflicting interests
include those between ecology and economy,
between competing water users and between
competing usages of water at different stages of thehydrological cycle. It becomes obvious that a more
holistic approach is needed in water management
and that administrative and disciplinary boundaries
limit our ability to react in a sustainable way. The
extension of these boundaries seems to be an
urgent challenge of the near future.
• Tools for water resources management The
focus is on methodological developments inmodelling at different scales, and applications ofdifferent types of models addressing open
questions in practical water management.
Publ. no. 268 (July 2001), price £47.75 (membership price£35.81; 2002 price to members in financially disadvantaged
countries only £9.55), 288 + viii pp., ISBN 1-901502-51-1

Impact of Human Activity on Groundwater
Dynamics
Edited by Hans Gehrels, Norman E. Peters, Eduard Hoehn,
Karsten Jensen, Chris Leibundgut, Jasper Griffioen,
Bruce Webb & Willem Jan Zaadnoordijk

Human activities are intricately linked to theevolution and dynamics ofgroundwater quantity andquality. Given the alarming
rate of land-use change
globally, it is important tounderstand the linkages
between land-use change
and groundwater dynamics,
as land use affects thequantity and chemical
quality of recharge water.
The recharge directly
determines the naturaldynamic behaviour of thegroundwater system, and is(hence) often the mostimportant driving force in groundwater systems. In
many areas, groundwater is the major source of surface
water, and in others, surface water infiltration is amajor source of recharge. Consequently, understanding
the interaction of groundwater and surface water isimportant to the understanding of groundwater
dynamics. Geochemical aquifer characteristics also

have to be quantified to enable prediction of both the
movement and contamination of groundwater.
In this book, the impact of a number of humanactivities on groundwater dynamics and resources, suchas urbanization, land-use change and groundwatercontamination is evaluated. In addition, severalhydrological processes that need to be known toadequately assess the impact of these activities, such as
methods for quantifying recharge, for geochemical
characterization of aquifers, and for the modelling ofcontamination transport, are investigated.
The volume has 53 papers (presented at Symposia
3/4 at Maastricht, July 2001), which are divided into
five themes:• Quantification of groundwater recharge• Urbanization and land-use change• Groundwater–surface water interaction• Aquifer characterization and transport modelling• Groundwater contamination
Publ. no. 269 (July 2001), price £59.50 (membership price£44.62; 2002 price to members in financially disadvantaged
countries only £11.90), 369 + x pp., ISBN 1-901502-56-2

Soil–Vegetation–Atmosphere Transfer
Schemes and Large-Scale Hydrological Models
Edited by A. J. Dolman, A. J. Hall, M. L. Kavvas,
T. Oki & J. W. Pomeroy
Soil–vegetation–atmosphere interactions determine, to alarge extent, the global climate and the behaviour of thehydrological cycle. Model predictions thus depend
critically on adequate parameterization of thisinteraction. This volume represents a “state of the art”
in Soil–Vegetation–Atmosphere Transfer (SVAT)modelling in the hydrological community; it contains
48 papers presented at Symposium 5 at Maastricht,
July 2001.
Several key issues in
SVAT models are poorly
parameterized or simply
not well enough understood. Current SVAT
schemes include increasingly complex descriptionsof the physical mechanisms governing land
surfaceprocesses
requiring large numbersof soil and land surface
parameters controllingthe vertical fluxes. The
underlying rationale isthat improved processrepresentation will resultin parameters which are easier to measure or estimate,and in improved model performance and robustness.
However, this is not necessarily so. Studies show thatcharacterizing surface properties is fraught withdifficulties,
asdetermining
representative
parameterizations is non-trivial due to our inability toaccurately measure land surface properties. Hence,
data assimilation, whereby measurements areintegrated with models, is increasingly used to keephydrological models on track. Remote sensing of thestate of the land surface is important in efforts toimprove data assimilation. However, these issues are
particularly difficult for snow-covered areas, where
vegetation communities are strongly coupled withpatterns of snow accumulation and snowmelt.
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• SVAT and precipitation processes at large scales• Parameter estimation of large-scale hydrologicalmodels• Data assimilation in large-scale hydrological models• Snow–vegetation interactions
Publ. no. 270 (July 2001), price £59.50 (membership price£44.62; 2002 price to members in financially disadvantaged
countries only £11.90), 372 + x pp., ISBN 1-901502-61-9

The following Red Books are in preparation—thefirst two are nearly finished:
The Extremes of the Extremes: Extraordinary
FloodsEdited by Arni Snorrason, Helga P. Finnsdottir &Marshall Moss
Sixty papers comprising the proceedings of a
symposium held at Reykjavik, July 2000.
Publ. no. 271

Integrated Water Resources Management
Edited by Miguel A. Marino & Slobodan Simonovic
Proceedings of a symposium held at Davis, California,
April 2000, with 61 papers.
Publ. no. 272

Agricultural Effects on Ground and Surface
WatersEdited by Joop Steenvoorden, Frans Claessen & Jaap
Willems
Proceedings of a symposium held at Wageningen,
October 2000, comprising 65 papers.
Publ. no. 273

Hydrological Sciences Journal (HSJ)
The table on the next page lists the papers
published in issues 3–5 of the 2001 volume, as
well as those that will appear in issue no. 6—theDecember Special Issue. Also listed are papers
that have been accepted for publication and willappear in subsequent issues.

Special issue December 2001: Can Scienceand Society Avert the World Water Crisis in
the 21st Century?
With water attracting more and more attention as
an issue of global importance, it seems mostappropriate for IAHS to devote one issue of the
Journal to a discussion of some of the current
water problems facing humanity. The papers
presented at the Tokyo International Symposium“Can Science and Society Save the Water
Crisis?” held in October 2000, provided aconvenient basis for this Special Issue. Thesepapers are being published as the IAHS
contribution to the growing discussion of world
water problems. This issue of the HSJ will also be
important to the preparations for “Dublin+10”—
the International Conference on Freshwater—
being held in Bonn, Germany, in December 2001,“Rio+10”—the World Summit on Sustainable

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Development—to be held in Johannesburg in
September 2002 and the Third World Water
Forum which is due to take place in Kyoto, Shigaand Osaka in March 2003.
This Special Issue also represents somethingof a landmark for the Association, as never before
have the President, and a number of the
Association’s officers contributed papers to thesame issue of the Journal.
The Special Issue contains an introduction and11 papers. The papers deal with a range of topics
concerned with water resources, the use of water,
floods and flood risk on global, regional andnational scales, as well as with macroscalemodelling, fractals and other methods. They aim
to give a hydrological perspective to a number ofthe initiatives that have been launched in thewake of Agenda 21.

Future Special Issues
As a result of discussions of the IAHS Bureau at
Maastricht in July 2001, it was decided that due
to a steady increase of good papers being submitted to HSJ, more papers should be publishedeach year, possibly in the form of an additional
Special Issue of the Journal. Several proposals
were received by the Editor for publication of a
topic -oriented Special Issue, perhaps consisting ofworkshop papers. Another proposal was for“special clusters” of papers resulting from an IAHS
workshop to be published within an issue of the
Journal. At present, the details of the proposal arebeing finalized and it is hoped to publish a Special
Issue alongside the August 2002 issue, thereby
increasing the number of issues a year to seven.

Subscriptions 2002
In view of the proposals to publish an additional
issue in 2002, the price has been set to reflect theincreased production and printing costs. The full
price of vol. 47 (2002) is £172 or US$250. The
price for IAHS members (50% discount) is £86 or
US$125 and for members in financiallydisadvantaged countries, receiving 80% discount,the price is only £34.50.
In order to ensure that you start receiving the2002 volume as soon as the first issue ispublished, please send your payment now toFrances Watkins at the IAHS Press address.
Payment may be made by VISA or
MasterCard/Eurocard (giving card number,
expiry date and the name and billing address ofthe cardholder) or by cheque drawn from a bankin the UK (GB pounds—payable to “IAHS Ltd”)
or the USA (US dollars—payable to “IAHS”).
Please contact Frances for further information, or
if you require an invoice. Remember, the discountfor IAHS members is valid only if you arepurchasing the journals for your personal use!

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Hydrological Sciences Journal 2001/02
Papers in vol. 46, no. 3 (June)

Papers in vol. 46, no. 4 (August)

S URENDRA KUMAR MISHRA & VIJAY P. S INGH: On the Seddon speed formula
KWAN T UN LEE, C HIN-HSIN C HANG, M ING-S ANG YANG &W IE-S HENG YU: Reservoir attenuation of floods from ungauged basins
YESHEWATESFA HUNDECHA, ANDRAS B ARDOSSY & HANS-W ERNERT HEISEN: Development of a fuzzy logic-based rainfall–runoff model
B ELLIE S IVAKUMAR, R ONNY B ERNDTSSON & MAGNUS P ERSSON: Monthly
runoff prediction using phase space reconstruction
MAGNUS P ERSSON, R ONNY B ERNDTSSON & BELLIE S IVAKUMAR: Usingneural networks for calibration of time-domain reflectometry
measurements
ARMANDO B RATH, ATTILIO C ASTELLARIN, M ARCO F RANCHINI &GIORGIO GALEATI: Estimating the index flood using indirect methods
C. K. JAIN: Adsorption of zinc onto bed sediments of the River Ganga:
adsorption models and kinetics
R AY KOSTASCHUK, J AMES T ERRY & RISHI R AJ: Tropical cyclones and floods
in Fiji
JACQUES C ALLEDE, P ASCAL KOSUTH & EURIDES DE OLIVEIRA : Etablissement
de la relation hauteur–débit de l’Amazone à Obidos: méthode de ladénivelée normale à “géométrie variable”
JAIME GARATUZA-P AYAN, R ACHEL T. P INKER, W. JAMES SHUTTLEWORTH&C HRISTOPHER J. W ATTS: Solar radiation and evapotranspiration in northern
Mexico estimated from remotely sensed measurements of cloudiness

G. S. C AVADIAS, T. B. M. J. OUARDA, B. B OBEE & C. GIRARD: A canonicalcorrelation approach to the determination of homogeneous regions forregional flood estimation of ungauged basins
B ERHANU F ANTA, B. T. ZAAKE & R. K. KACHROO: A study of variability ofannual river flow of the southern African region
ZEKAI S EN & ZEYAD HABIB: Monthly spatial rainfall correlation functions
and interpretations for Turkey
S ALVADOR S ÁNCHEZ-C ARILLO, M IGUEL ALVAREZ-C OBELAS,
MANUEL B ENÍTEZ & DAVID G. ANGELER: A simple method for estimatingwater loss by transpiration in wetlands
E. J. KLOK, K. JASPER, K. P. R OELOFSMA, J. GURTZ & A. B ADOUX:Distributed hydrological modelling of a heavily glaciated Alpine river basin
R. S. KUROTHE, N. K. GOEL & B. S. M ATHUR: Derivation of a curve number
and kinematic-wave based flood frequency distribution
D. H. A. AL-KHUDHAIRY , C. LEEMHUIS, V. HOFFMANN, R. C ALAON,
I. M. S HEPHERD , J. R. T HOMPSON, H. GAVIN & D. L. GASCA -T UCKER:
Monitoring wetland ditch water levels in the North Kent Marshes, UK,
using Landsat TM imagery and ground-based measurements
R ENAAT DE S UTTER, ANDREAS KREIN & RONNY VERHOEVEN: Simulationof
sediment transport during flood events: laboratory work and field
experiments
ANDREAS KREIN & RENAAT DE S UTTER: Use of artificial flood events todemonstrate the invalidity of simple mixing models
M. B AYAZIT, B. ÖNOZ & H. AKSOY: Nonparametric streamflow simulation
by wavelet or Fourier analysis

Papers in vol. 46, no. 5 (October)

Papers in vol. 46, no. 6 (December Special Issue)

Q. FENG, G. D. CHENG & K. N. ENDO: Towards sustainable developmentof
the environmentally degraded river Heihe basin, China
K. J. SENE, H. A. HOUGHTON-C ARR & A. HACHACHE: Preliminary flood
frequency estimates for Lebanon
B RIAN S. C ARUSO : Regional river flow, water quality, aquatic ecologicalimpacts and recovery from drought
L. SHOTBOLT, S. M. HUTCHINSON & A. D. THOMAS: Establishing thesediment stratigraphy of reservoirs in the southern Pennines, UK
ANTHONY S. KIEM & S TEWART W. F RANKS: On the identification of ENSOinduced rainfall and runoff variability: a comparison of methods andindicesT. S. HU, K. C. LAM & S. T. NG: River flow time series prediction with arange-dependent neural network
ABDALLAH MDAGHRI -ALAOUI & W ERNER EUGSTER: Field determination of
the water balance of the Areuse River delta, Switzerland
W ITOLD G. STRUPCZEWSKI, VIJAY P. S INGH & S TANISLAW W EGLARCZYK:
Impulse response of a linear diffusion analogy model as a flood frequency
probability density function
AMIN ELSHORBAGY, U. S. P ANU & S. P. S IMONOVIC: Analysis of crosscorrelated chaotic streamflows
IAN LITTLEWOOD: Practical aspects of calibrating and selecting unithydrograph-based models for continuous river flow simulation
MING-S ANG YANG & KWAN T UN LEE: Determination of probability
distributions for Strahler stream lengths based on Poisson process andDEM

Can science and society avert the world water crisis in the 21st century?
JOHN R ODDA: Water under pressure
IRINA KRASOVSKAIA, LARS GOTTSCHALK, NILS R OAR S ÆLTHUN &HALLVARD B ERG : Perception of the risk of flooding: the case of the 1995
flood in Norway
ZBIGNIEW W. KUNDZEWICZ: Water problems of central and eastern Europe—a region in transition
XIA JUN & YONGQIN DAVID C HEN: Water problems and opportunities in thehydrological sciences in China
ASHIM DAS GUPTA: Challenges and opportunities for water resourcesmanagement in southeast AsiaC ARLOS E. M. T UCCI : Some scientific challenges in the development of SouthAmerica’s water resources
LEKAN OYEBANDE: Water problems in Africa—how can the sciences help?
LARS GOTTSCHALK, S TEIN B ELDRING, KOLBJÖRN ENGELAND,LENA T ALLAKSEN, NILS R OAR S ÆLTHUN, S JUR KOLBERG &YURY MOTOVILOV: Regional/macroscale hydrological modelling—a
Scandinavian experience
P IERRE HUBERT: Multifractals as a tool to overcome scale problems inhydrology
KUNIYOSHI T AKEUCHI: Increasing vulnerability to extreme floods and societal
needs for hydrological forecasting
T AIKAN OKI, YASUSHI AGATA, S HINJIRO KANAE, T AKAO S ARUHASHI,DAWEN YANG & KATUMI MUSIAKE: Global assessment of current water
resources using total runoff integrating pathways

Forthcoming papers (in no particular order)
J. W ILK & D. A. HUGHES: Calibrating a rainfall–runoff model for a catchment with limited data
J. W ILK & D. A. HUGHES: Simulating the impacts of land use and climate change on water resource availability in a large southern Indian catchment
ZEKAI S EN & KHALID AL-S UBA ’ I : Hydrological considerations for dam siting in arid regions—Saudi Arabian study
S ANJAY K. JAIN & M. K. GOEL: Assessing the vulnerability to soil erosion of the Ukai Dam catchments using remote sensing and GIS
ALISON W ILLIAMS & DAVID ARCHER: The use of historic flood information in the English Midlands to improve risk assessment
P AWEL M. R OWINSKI, W ITOLD G. STRUPCZEWSKI & VIJAY P. S INGH: A note on the applicability of log-Gumbel and log-logistic probability distributions inhydrological analyses. I: Known PDF
S TANISLAW W EGLARCZYK, W ITOLD G. STRUPCZEWSKI & VIJAY P. S INGH: A note on the applicability of log-Gumbel and log-logistic probability distributions
in hydrological analyses. II: Assumed PDF
C HEN XIQING, XU JIANGANG & ZHANG ERFENG: Large and episodic decrease of water discharge from the Yangtze to the sea during the dry season
P RATAP S INGH & S. K. JAIN: Snow and glacier melt contribution in the Satluj River at Bhakra Dam in the western Himalayan region
DAWEN YANG, S RIKANATHA HERATH & KATUMI MUSIAKE: Hillslope-based hydrological model using catchment area and width functionsJURAJ M. C UNDERLIK & DONALD H. BURN : The use of flood regime information in regional flood frequency analysis
S HIV KUMAR P ANDEY, ABHAY KUMAR S INGH & S. I. HASNAIN: Grain size distribution, morphoscopy and elemental chemistry of suspended sediments of thePindari Glacier, Kumaon Himalaya, India
S ANJAY K. JAIN, P RATAP S INGH & S. M. S ETH: Assessment of sedimentation in the Bhakra Reservoir in the western Himalayan region using remotely sensed
data
L. DESCROIX & J. C. OLIVRY : Spatial and temporal factors of erosion by water of black marls in the badlands of the southern French AlpsZUHAL AKYUREK & A. UNAL S ORMAN: Monitoring the snow-covered areas in the eastern part of Turkey from NOAA-AVHRR dataXU JIONXIN: Sediment flux into the sea as influenced by different water and sediment source areas in the drainage basin: example of the Yellow River, China
S HAHRAM ASHRAFI , ASHIM DAS GUPTA, M UKAND S INGH B ABEL, NORIHIRO IZUMI & RANER LOOF: Simulation of infiltration from porous clay pipe insubsurface irrigation
MAGNUS P ERSSON: Evaluating the linear dielectric constant-electrical conductivity model using time-domain reflectometry
V. HRISSANTHOU: Comparative application of two erosion models to a basin

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Bookstand at Maastricht
We were delighted to see so many old friends andso many new faces at the IAHS Bookstand in
Maastricht in July.
The registration fee at Maastricht included thecost of one of the symposium proceedings (Publ.
no. 268, 269 or 270—descriptions given earlier inthis article), but participants who had not ticked abox on the registration form to indicate theirchoice of publication were not issued with avoucher for any of the publications. We have a
final list of registrants and names of those who
exchanged their voucher for a Red Book. If you
registered for Maastricht but did not collect yourfree Red Book from the Bookstand, then let us
know. Let us also know which Red Book you
want and we shall be pleased to mail it to you.
It was discovered at Maastricht that a 16-page
section in Publ. no. 269, Impact of Human
Activity on Groundwater Dynamics, was missing.
This book was reprinted and in August perfectcopies were airmailed to participants who hadcollected this book at the Bookstand.

Openings, Closures and Climate Change
On 17 September a reception was held at theCentre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH),
Wallingford, UK, home of IAHS Press, hosted by
Prof. Jim Wallace (Director CEH), Prof. Kuni
Takeuchi and Dr John Rodda to mark the openingof the new IAHS Press office, and the change ofleadership of IAHS; John retired as IAHS
President and Kuni took over on 18 July at
Maastricht. Particularly welcome guests were
Pierre Hubert (Secretary General IAHS) andHenny Colenbrander (former Secretary General).
The spacious new IAHS Press office
immediately impressed those who had visited theold one. And, as Jim Wallace put it, the move isfrom the “depths of the building” to a prominent
location at the entrance so that all visitors to, andstaff at, CEH are now aware of IAHS Press
presence.
Jim Wallace acknowledged the leading role
played by John Rodda in initiating the association
between IAHS and the former Institute ofHydrology, now CEH, more than 30 years ago.
All hope, and expect, the fruitful association of
the two organizations to continue for at least as
long again.
After lunch, Pierre Hubert presented the Tison
award to Dr Linda See (University of Leeds) who
effectively made the case for experimenting withfuzzy logic and neural networks in hydrologicalmodelling. Dr Rob Lamb (CEH, Wallingford)
then gave a presentation entitled “Climate change
and flooding” assessing the possibility of links
between the extensive flooding in England andWales in autumn 2000, and climate change.

The IAHS Press team at the Wallingford reception on
17 September—from left to right: Frances Watkins, Jill Gash,
Penny Kisby and Cate Gardner.

Professor Nigel Arnell’s (University ofSouthampton) presentation “Climate change andwater
resources”
explained
howtheIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC) remains very uncertain as to the impact ofclimate change on hydrology, except wherewarming has an impact on snowfields andglaciers, and the runoff therefrom.
Penny Kisby, Frances Watkins,
Cate Gardner & Jill GashNews from Commissions
International Commission on
Surface Water (ICSW)
1. Activities 1999–2001
The first bureau meeting of ICSW took place at
the IUGG 99 General Assembly at Birmingham
University, UK, on 28 July 1999. At this meeting
the ICSW vision was discussed and this issummarized in section 4. ICSW will endeavour tostrengthen activities in developing countries andwould welcome proposals to organize IAHS
workshops in these countries.
ICSW has supported several scientificmeetings:• International Symposium on Integrated Water
Resources Management, Davis, California,
USA, 9–12 April 2000.
• The Extremes of the Extremes: an
International Symposium on Extraordinary
Floods, Reykjavik, Iceland, 17–19 July 2000.
• International Symposium in Flood Defence,
Kassel, Germany, 20–23 September 2000.

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• Workshop on Runoff Generation, Freiburg,
Germany, 9–12 October 2000.
• ERB-2000 Monitoring and Modelling
Catchment Water Quantity and Quality, Gent,
Belgium, 27–29 September 2000.
• European Conference on Advances in Flood
Research, Potsdam, Germany, 1–3 November
2000.
• FRIEND/AMHY (Alpine and Mediterranean
Hydrology) Seminar, Montpellier, France,
11–13 October 2000.
• European Geophysical Society Workshop:
Modelling and Managing HydrologicalDroughts, Nice, France, 26–30 March 2001.
• A New Hydrology for a Thirsty Planet, IAHS
Sixth Scientific Assembly at Maastricht, The
Netherlands, 18–27 July 2001.
ICSW has established a mailing list to easecommunication with and dissemination of
information to the hydrological community
interested in surface water-related topics. ICSW
has established its own web site:
http://www.uni-freiburg.de/hydrology/icsw
which will help to transmit the work of theCommission to a wide scientific audience. The
second bureau meeting was held in Stockholm on
13 September 2000 at the Swedish Natural
Science Research Council.

2. Planned activities 2001–2004
To approach IAHS to design a brochure which
would be of help to present IAHS. It would make
IAHS more attractive to the scientific community.
Funding will be further discussed for forthcoming
workshops and conferences.
ICSW will support the following scientificmeetings:• Fifth International Symposium on Hydrologic
Applications of Weather Radar—Radar Hydrology, Kyoto, Japan, 19–22 November 2001.
• Symposium or workshop on “Integrated Water
Resources Management”, Cape Town, 2002.
• FRIEND 2002: Fourth International
Conference on FRIEND—Bridging the Gap
between Research and Practice, Cape Town,
South Africa, 18–22 March 2002.
• International Conference on the Hydrology in
the Mediterranean and Semiarid Regions,Montpellier, France, 7–10 April 2003.
• Workshop on Flood and Drought Forecastingwith Reference to Global Change (part of the
XXIII General Assembly of the International
Union of Geodesy and Geophysics), Sapporo,
Japan, 30 June–11 July 2003.

3. Flow Regimes from International Experimental and Network Data (FRIEND)
The (long) part of the report on FRIEND
activities has not been reproduced here, but isavailable on the web at
http://www.cig.ensmp.fr/~iahs/maastricht/maas01-icsw.pdf

4. IAHS strategy and the ICSW scienceagendaThe Maastricht Scientific Assembly provided an
opportunity for ICSW to contribute to the IAHS
strategy for developing a science agenda. The
ICSW consensus was that IAHS should focus on
its two strengths. One is to organize scientificworkshops and conferences, and the second isthat it should publish high quality journals andconference proceedings. Through these two
mechanisms it can influence the national andinternational science agenda. Our focus should be“excellence in context” ranging from fundamental
science to providing solutions to environmental
problems.
IAHS should not therefore develop a science
programme or science projects except where
there is a specific targeted initiative which IAHS
has the resources to deliver. The view of ICSW
is that there is a large and ever increasing
number of science initiatives at the project level,at the research institute or university
department level, at a national level, at afunding level, e.g. EU, and at the international
level, the Global Energy and Water Experiment(GEWEX) , the International Hydrological
Programme (IHP), World Climate Programme(WCP), etc. IAHS should not develop anotherinternational
research
programme
which
duplicates these initiatives. ICSW strategy
should influence the science agenda through theorganization of, or contribution to, workshops,
conferences and special issues of journals. Our
agenda would be more targeted if we could
plan a six-year programme for our key activities.
Key ICSW initiatives would include thefollowing:• Assessment of water resources at a range ofspatial and temporal scales• Forecasting extreme events at a range of timeand space scales• Interaction between hydrology, instream
ecology and wetland functions• Interaction between surface and groundwater
systems• Interaction between hydrology, policy, socioeconomics and poverty reduction• Transferring research to the user, particularly
in developing countries• Capacity building and dissemination ofresearch
The primary initiative is therefore interdisciplinary research and this raises the questionof our commission structure.
Siegfried Demuth & Alan Gustard,
ICSW Secretary and President respectively

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International Commission on
Continental Erosion (ICCE)ICCE at Maastricht, July 2001
At the Sixth Scientific Assembly in Maastricht,
The Netherlands, ICCE held its Plenary Meetingat which ICCE President-Elect Wojciech
Froehlich took over as ICCE President from Bent
Hasholt. ICCE welcomes Prof. Froehlich to his
new position, and thanks Bent Hasholt for his
many years of service to ICCE and IAHS. Also in
Maastricht, ICCE, the International Commission
on Remote Sensing (ICRS), and the International
Commission on Water Quality (ICWQ)
sponsored Workshop 5: Application of
Geographic Information Systems and Remote
Sensing for Quantifying Patterns of Erosion andWater Quality. The convenors of Workshop 5
were: Jerry C. Ritchie (ICRS), Des E. Walling(ICCE), and Norman E. “Jake” Peters (ICWQ).
Jerry Ritchie has provided a report on thisworkshop elsewhere in the Newsletter.
ICCE Vice-President Wolfgang Summer
provided the following report on soil erosion in
the Republic of Moldova.

Soil erosion in the Republic of Moldova
Upon flying into Chisinau, the capital of the
Republic of Moldova, situated between Romania
and the Ukraine, a hydrologist can only beastonished at the many gullies covering a large
proportion of the fields, both bare and undercrops, and cannot help but notice the landslides
on the rolling hills near the city. During my
involvement in a EU-project focusing on“Environmental Protection Review, Protection
Strategy and Options” it became obvious again
that, for the larger part of the country, soil erosion
can develop into a major natural threat to theagricultural economy and the wealth of the rural
population. It is estimated that soil erosion in
Moldova results in a financial loss of US$45 to
55 million annually.
Due to the breakdown of the former Soviet
Union, the centrally organized economic network
collapsed, and the large-scale agricultural
structures became obsolete as markets for
agricultural products disappeared overnight.
Moldova was left with an energy- and costintensive agricultural infrastructure of single
fields with sizes of several km2 . It was impossible
to adapt the existing infrastructure to the regional
needs within the country. After a decade of
inappropriate agricultural management combinedwith natural processes such as drought, soil losses
due to extensive landslides, wind erosion,
pollution of water sources due to erosion
processes, degradation of soil fertility, and manyother erosion-related negative impacts, thecountry’s economy is stressed and the future

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agricultural productivity of the soils is threatened.
For example, over a period of only five years, thearea affected by landslides has increased from55 427 to 1 430 000 ha. The estimated averageannual soil loss is more than 30 t ha-1 , whichamounts to a total of 22 million t year -1 .
Currently, land reforms and other legal steps
are being undertaken to allow the establishmentof soil conservation strategies as well as all theother necessary environmental protection
strategies to insure, in the first instance, the healthof the country’s population and, in the long run,the sustainability of the environmental situation.
It is estimated that the total benefits of soil
conservation would add up to US$450 to 550
million. A lack of funds, however, endangers theurgently needed suggested programmes andprojects, a problem also found elsewhere in theeastern European region of the former Soviet
Union. Due to the collapse of the political system,
the important agricultural sector fell apart so that:• the rural population is left with an income of
US$0.5 a day, leading to• an increased stress on the environment byimproper field structures and farming such asanimal husbandry in and around the villages
with negative impacts on the water sources,causing• water pollution and linked sanitary problems,
leading to health problems affecting the young
as well as the elderly, so that the life
expectancy of the rural population is expected
to decrease significantly.
It was extremely impressive to see the actual links
between political, economic and social developments, agricultural structures and management,
and soil and environmental conservation
strategies, and the impacts of these links on the
country’s wealth.
I would like to conclude that we, as academics
as well as applied scientists, should always beaware of the final goals of our activities and theirimportance to people. I would therefore like tosuggest that IAHS might want to consider
establishing a new commission aimed at focusing
on the economic, legal, cultural, or other socioeconomic aspects and on the development ofappropriate strategies to install hydrologicalprogrammes and projects.

Alice Springs Symposium, September 2001
The organization of the International Symposiumon The Structure, Function and Management
Implications of Fluvial Sedimentary Systems, tobe held in Alice Springs, Northern Territory,
Australia, from 2–6 September 2002, is wellunder way. Around 80 abstracts have been
submitted. Abstracts for poster papers will be
accepted until January 2002. The local organizers(FionaDyer,
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Martin Thoms and Jon Olley) have booked thebrand new Alice Springs convention centre forthe conference (next door to Lassiters Casino for
those who have seen that great Australian film
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert ... if you haven’t
seen it, its essential viewing before visiting
central Australia!). The local organizers are
currently approaching people to give plenary
sessions—the plan is to have one plenary session
for each theme of the conference, and most likely
hold it as a summary session after all the papers.
Dirk de Boer, Secretary ICCEInternational Commission on Snowand Ice (ICSI)Maastricht, IAHS Scientific Assembly,
July 2001
At the Sixth Scientific Assembly of IAHS,
Prof. Gerry Jones succeeded Dr Elizabeth Morrisas President of the International Commission on
Snow and Ice.
ICSI sponsored/co-sponsored the following
two meetings:• Symposium 5: Soil–Vegetation–Atmosphere
Transfer Schemes and Large-Scale
Hydrological Models. Prof. John Pomeroy,
Chair of the ICSI Working Group on Snow–
Vegetation Interactions convened the session
on interactions between snow and vegetation.
• Workshop 4: High-Mountain Regions:Hydrological Processes and Cryological
Processes, Models and the Variability of
Available Water Resources; in anticipation of“The Year of the Mountains 2002”. The
convenor was Herbert Lang and the coconvenors were Alfred Becker, Suresh
Chalise, Andrew Fountain, Remigio
Galarraga, Georg Kaser, and Pierre Ribstein.

Innsbruck, IAMAS Scientific Assembly,
July 2001
ICSI sponsored one meeting:• Workshop on the Inter-comparison of the
Performance of Different Snowmelt Models(SNOWMIP). The ICSI convenor was
Paul Föhn.

Other ICSI sponsored meetings
ICSI has co-sponsored the following six
meetings:• International Symposium on Sea Ice and its
Interaction with the Ocean, Atmosphere andBiosphere, Fairbanks, Alaska, 2000. The ICSI
representatives were Steven Ackley and
Manfred Lange.
• International Workshop on Debris-Covered
Glaciers, Seattle, Washington, USA,

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13–15 September 2000. The ICSI
representative was Andrew Fountain.
International Symposium on Snow,
Avalanches and Impact of the Forest Cover,Innsbruck, Austria, 22–26 May 2000. The
ICSI representative was Michael Kuhn.
The Extremes of Extremes: International
Symposium on Extraordinary Floods,
Reykjavik, Iceland, 17–19 July 2000. The
ICSI representative was Liz Morris.
European Geophysical Society Symposium
OA36: Water Balance Components of High
Mountain Basins, Nice, France, 25–29 April
2000. The ICSI representative was Eric Brun.
UNESCO/ICSI/Hindu Kush-HimalayanFRIEND Workshop: Mass Balance
Measurements of Himalayan Glaciers, 20–24
March 2001. The ICSI representatives were
H. G. Jones, G. Kaser, S. Hasnain, J. Kargel
and Y. Ageta.

Publications
ICSI has participated in the publication of four
works:• Glacier Mass Balance Bulletin no. 6 (1998–
1999). World Glacier Monitoring Service,
Department of Geography, University of Zürich—
IRCHEL, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057
Zürich, Switzerland (haeberli@geo.unizh.ch).

• Tropical Glaciers (in press) by G. Kaser &G. Osmanston. Cambridge University Press, The
Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 2RU, UK.

• Snow Ecology: an Examination of Snowcovered Ecosystems (2001) edited by
H. G. Jones, J. W. Pomeroy, D. A. Walker &R. W. Hoham. Cambridge University Press, The
Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 2RU, UK.
378 pp.

• Physics of Ice Core Records (2000) edited by
Takeo Hondoh. Hokkaido University Press,
Kita 9, Nisha 8, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0809, Japan.
459 pp.
H. G. Jones, President ICSIInternational Commission on Water
Quality (ICWQ)ICWQ activities 2000–2001
In October 2000, the Commission took the lead inconvening an International Conference on
Agricultural Effects on Ground and Surface
Waters at Wageningen, The Netherlands. In
cooperation with the IHP/OHP National
Committees of The Netherlands and Germany,
this meeting focused on water scarcity andpollution caused by agriculture in the Northern
Hemisphere, water management methods toprotect water resources, interlinking sociologicaland scientific issues and the role of the politicaldecision-making processes. These themes were

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addressed for local, regional and national levels.
At the IAHS Maastricht Scientific Assembly,
July 2001, the Commission took the lead inconvening Symposium S3/4: Impact of Human
Activity on Groundwater Dynamics. It was also
involved in:• Symposium 1: Association Lectures on Waterrelated Threats on Social and Economic
Development• Symposium 2: Regional Management of
Water Resources• Workshop 5: Application of Geographic
Information Systems and Remote Sensing for
Quantifying Patterns of Erosion and Water
Quality• Workshop 7: Optimization of Monitoring
Strategies for Groundwater Quantity andQualityIn the period since the IUGG Assembly in
Birmingham, the Vice-Presidents of theCommission have reported on water quality
issues and problems in the countries where theywork. To date, reports (all published in previous
IAHS Newsletters) have been received on:• Cost of cyanobacterial blooms to Australia.
• Water quality in South Africa.
• Changes in water quality in eastern Germany
and the Czech Republic since 1990.
• Salinity and water quality in Australia.
These reports have appeared in previous issues of
the IAHS Newsletter.
Dr Kate Heal, Edinburgh University, UK, hasbeen elected to serve as the ICWQ representativeon the newly formed Hydrology 2020 Working
Group.
Bruce Webb, Secretary ICWQInternational Commission on Water
Resources Systems (ICWRS)
Strategic analysis of the future role of
ICWRSIntroduction

During recent years the objectives of ICWRS
have been: “to advance the science of hydrology
in planning, design and operation of water
resources systems and to close the gap between
theory and practice and between science andtechnology”(personal
communication,
Kundzewicz, 2000). During 1999–2000 theStrategic Science Discussion conducted among
IAHS members led the ICWRS Bureau toevaluate its own strategic role in IAHS. Inputs
were elicited from all members who were on theCommission’s address list as having expressedinterest in the Commission’s activities (about 50
individuals); a discussion on this evaluation took
place at a ICWRS Bureau meeting in April 2000,
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among some members about this topic. All in all
12 individual contributions were received for this
discussion. This report summarizes thecomponents of the different perspectives
expressed by the participants in the form of an
integrated view of the strategic role of ICWRS for
the future.
Integration of components of individual
perspectives“Systems” by definition implies a focus onsustainability: A common theme in the various
contributions is that ICWRS activities andprojects should continue to focus on sustainability
in water resources management and development.
Strategies towards sustainability of utilization of a
resource would fail if they did not recognize thatthe resource resides in, or comprises, an inputtransference-response system with many
components, qualities and links.
“Systems” by definition implies a focus on
integration: As the only Commission with an
explicit “systems” mandate, ICWRS has topromote research development on the interconnectedness of both biotic and abiotic
components of water resources systems and, byextension, on the integration of all the phases ofwater resource protection, planning, design,
management, operation and utilization. In thisway the mutual dependence between sustainability and integration becomes a guiding principle
for ICWRS’s planning activities. This integration
challenge should be interpreted very widely andincludes linking water quantity and quality,
atmospheric/surface water and groundwater, land
use and water management, small-scale subcatchments and large-scale main river basin
systems, ecosystems and economic/social
development, water supply and water conservation, urban and rural water users, poor
communities and better-off users, biophysical andsocio-economic information, statutory water
governance and participation by catchment
stakeholders, routine management and responses
to hydrological extremes, technology applicationand capacity-building/advocacy, etc.
Recognition of all four characteristics of a water
resource—quantity, quality (physico-chemicalmicrobiological), condition of the aquatic habitatand condition of the aquatic biota: Exposition of
ICWRS’s sustainability/systems agenda must
promote processes that, internationally, help
management objectives in the water resources
field to focus on these four characteristics, as wellas their interrelationships.
Integrating hydrological sciences: ICWRS ischallenged to play an integrative role among thevarious geophysical disciplines in and beyond thedomain of IAHS. It can be said that this

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Commission “needs” the other IAHS Commissions to do their work in order to be able to do its
own work! It should provide a systematic
framework on which the other disciplines canhang their individual objectives, secure in theknowledge that their localized objectives form
part of a systematic strategy towards
sustainability R&D. ICWRS should seek andexploit potential bridging needs between separate
disciplines, promote opportunities for crossfertilization among these disciplines, and also
challenge them on matters of internal focus andpriority, in a sustainability/systems context.
Raising the profile of the human factor inhydrology: The integration challenge to ICWRS
includes going outside the comfort zone of thegeophysical sciences and engineering to engage
the human factor in sustainability R&D in thewater resources field. Here the Commission must
broaden the focus to the social context of water:balancing food production and human health andsocial development with resource protection;
understanding and employing the links between
water and energy, water and policy, and waterand civilization; engaging public perceptions ofsustainability; exploring the links betweenhydrological extremes and their impacts onhuman communities and vice versa.
Systematizing information: Integration of outputs
from different disciplines relevant to thesustainability/systems approach requires atechnological and conceptual ability to bridge theconceptual and jargon gaps between disciplines,
to make the differing types and scales of
information and data inter-operable; and to reinterpret information that lies in the overlap
between the abiotic and the biotic sub-domains ofhydrology and water resources. ICWRS should
maintain a focus on these information
systematization needs.
Themes and tools for implementation of
ICWRS strategies

Against the backdrop of the above perspectives,
the themes, proposed by contributors, which may
be vehicles for implementation of ICWRS
strategies are:• Sustainable water resources development• Integrated water resources management (in its
widest definition or focused on sub-themes)• Extreme hydrological events• Water resources systems design and operation• Systems in hydrology• Risk management in the water resources field• The Hydrology for Environment, Life andPolicy (HELP)/IHP-VI and FRIEND
initiatives• Climate change• Urban hydrology

The tools that have been proposed are:• International symposia• International workshops• Special research projects• Special issues of Hydrological Sciences
Journal• Papers in journals• Joint ventures with other Commissions• Joint ventures with other water-related
associations
Way forward

No contributor has made specific proposals on the“way forward”. This aspect deserves a specificdebate by the ICWRS Bureau. Known plans at
the time of writing (March 2001) are:
• Primary involvement in the Sixth Scientific
Assembly of IAHS, Maastricht, July 2001.
• Secondary involvement in the FRIEND
Conference, Cape Town, March 2002.
• Primary involvement in the Integrated Water
Resources Management (IWRM) (sub-theme
focused) Symposium, and Remote Sensing
Workshop, Stellenbosch, November 2001–
January 2002.
Potential sponsorship for invited speakers at theStellenbosch event has already been offered bytheUK
Department
forInternational
Development and the South African Water
Research Commission.
André Görgens, ICWRS Secretary 1999–2001

Note: André Görgens has now resigned as
Secretary of ICWRS and the new Secretary is:
Dr Andreas Schumann
Ruhr University Bochum, Institute for Hydrology,
Water Management and Environmental
Technology, D-44780 Bochum, Germany[tel.: +49 234 7002688; fax: +49 234 3214153;
andreas.schumann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de]International Commission on
Remote Sensing (ICRS)At Maastricht in July it was announced that inspring 2001 for personal reasons Dr Eric Barrett
had resigned as President-Elect of ICRS, and that
Dr Al Rango and Prof. Gert Schultz had agreed tocontinue as President and Past-President
respectively of the Commission until 2003.

International Commission on Atmosphere–
Soil–Vegetation Relations (ICASVR)
Past events• Groundwater 2000: International Conference on
Groundwater Research, Copenhagen, Denmark,
6–8 June 2000. Karsten H. Jensen was amember of the scientific advisory committee.

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• Workshop on Typological Approaches to Estimation of Global Suspended Sediment Flux,
Boulder, Colorado, USA, September 2000. At
this International Geosphere Biosphere
Programme (IGBP) water/sediments workshop,
Charles Vörösmarty represented IGBP Biospheric Aspects of the Hydrological Cycle(BAHC) to develop land-to-ocean flux models
to support IGBP activities in this realm.

Training and teaching activities• Training in the Use of LBA-HydroNET
Hydrometeorological Network Database inSupport of the Large-scale Biosphere–
Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia,
CPTEC, Cachoeira Paulista, Brazil, December
2000. It is hoped this was the first in a series
of workshops which has created
http://www.lba-hydronet.sr.unh.edu over
the LBA (Large-scale Biosphere–Atmosphere
Experiment in Amazonia) domain. It is a
result of earlier work with UNESCO and theWater Center for the Humid Tropics of Latin
America and the Caribbean (CATHALAC) todevelop the http://www.r-hydronet.sr.unh.edu.
A group of about 35 researchers from theUSA, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela,
Bolivia, and Ecuador attended; and Charles
Vörösmarty was the convenor.
• National Science Foundation–Arctic Systems
Science Hydrology Workshop, convened by
the National Center for Ecological Analysis
and Synthesis (NCEAS), Santa Barbara,
California, USA, September 2000. This was agathering of about 30 researchers, both US
and international, to develop a research planfor the US National Science Foundation’s
Arctic Systems Science Program to improvehydrological research across the Arctic. The
plan being submitted recommends creation ofa pan-Arctic hydrological systems initiative
composed of linked monitoring, process studies,and simulation exercises. Charles Vörösmarty
was the workshop convenor and co-chair.
• Jirka Simunek (Secretary ICASVR) together
with M. Th. Van Genuchten have been the
instructors on a short course in “Advanced
Modelling of Water Flow and Solute Transport
in Variably-Saturated Media” that has beenoffered in countries including Germany,
Australia, Switzerland, Denmark and USA. The
same course will be held at Nanjing
Agricultural University, China, in July
2002 (contact: Genxing Pan,
gxpan@mail.njau.edu.cn).

The Maastricht Scientific Assembly
ICASVR was involved in the following meetings
at the IAHS Sixth Scientific Assembly,
Maastricht, The Netherlands:

22• Symposium 3/4: Impact of Human Activity on
Groundwater Dynamics (Karsten H. Jensen
was a co-convenor), 23–25 July 2001.
• Symposium S5: Soil–Vegetation–Atmosphere
Transfer Schemes and Large-Scale
Hydrological Models (Han Dolman was theconvenor).

Forthcoming events• Stewart Franks (Vice-President ICASVR)(ceswf@civeng.newcastle.edu.au) is planningan Interdisciplinary Conference on
Hydrological Change towards the end of 2002,
through the Institution of Engineers(Australia) and the Climate Variability andAgriculture Programme. The aim is to assess
practical measures to climate adaptation—
integrating insight from climate studies
through to the economics of engineering
designs in the light of climate uncertainty.
Charles Vörösmarty, President ICASVRInternational Commission on
Tracers (ICT)ICT 2000–2001
General

It has been observed that the number and thequality of published papers relating to tracer
studies have strongly increased during the last six
years. Dedicated international and national
conferences on tracer hydrology, tracerhydrogeology, tracer use in contaminanthydrology, tracers for calibrating groundwatermodelling, etc. have been organized andsupported by ICT, and other meetings have been
jointly organized with the Association of Tracer
Hydrology (ATH).
These meetings have provided an opportunity
for specialists from different branches(hydrologists, hydrogeologists, chemists) all
having in common the challenging goal of thedevelopment of “tracer techniques”, to meet withnumerical and geostatistical specialists who need
good data for calibration, validation, conditional
simulations, etc.
New techniques of tracer determination, newtracers, improved knowledge of their properties,
impact of tracers on the environment, newdevelopments in the way of interpreting tracer
studies have been found and published. On theother hand, several crucial questions of hydrology
and hydrogeology have emerged that may not be
solved without the help of tracers.
As water supply and demand concerns
increase worldwide, so does consciousness of theimportance of hydrology. In this way, ICT has
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studies from different hydrological conditions areof great interest to the whole community. In
general ICT has succeeded in attracting many ofthe best minds from these scientific fields and alarge number of young scientists.
ICT web page and mailing list

It is the intention that the site created by Alain
Dassargues(Past-PresidentofICT)
http://www.lgih.ulg.ac.be/ict/ will be taken overand regularly updated by Jeff McDonell (the new
President of ICT). It should become a web sitewith much information, addresses and links, etc.
on tracer studies, products, publications andreports.
The International Commission on Tracers has
established a mailing list (kept at the Secretariat
of ICT) to facilitate and implement close links
and transfer information between the hydrologicalcommunity interested in tracers.
Publications

ICT edited the following Red Book:• Tracers and Modelling in Hydrogeology.
Proceedings of the TraM’2000 Conference held at
Liège, May 2000, edited by A. Dassargues, IAHS
Publ. no. 262 (May 2000), price £74.00, 572 + xii
pp.

In addition, the Proceedings of the International Workshop on Runoff Generation and River
Basin Modelling, held in Freiburg, Germany,
9–12 October 2000, have been published by
Freiburger Schriften zur Hydrologie.
Relationship of ICT with internationalorganizations

An important future activity focusing on tracer
methods in hydrology is a long-term inter-agency
programme entitled the Joint International
Isotopes in Hydrology Programme (JIIHP) which
has been established under the auspices of theInternational Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) incooperation with UNESCO with suitable linkages
to WMO and other international hydrological andwater-related programmes. The aim of thisprogramme is to facilitate the integration of
isotopes in hydrological practices through:• development of tools for better understandingof specific hydrological processes andimproving the assessment, development andmanagement of water resources;• support of national, regional and international
programmes in water resources;• incorporation of isotope hydrology as part ofhydrological curricula in universities
worldwide;• integration of isotopic data in hydrological
databases at national, regional and global
scales.
It is expected that JIIHP will cover scientific,

practical and educational aspects of relevanthydrology and water resources studies and will
improve the implementation and coordination ofhydrological programmes of UNESCO, WMO,
IAEA and other international governmental or
nongovernmental organizations.
ICT is delighted with the general philosophyof this programme and considers it a successful
culmination of the work and the efforts of ICT
during the last 10 years in promoting tracer
methods in hydrology and in particular inbringing hydrologists and tracer specialists closer
together. This planned international programme
basically follows the aims and purposes of ICT
formulated in 1991 and promoted during the last
10 years.
Events with ICT involvement

Past• International Conference on Tracers andModelling in Hydrogeology, University ofLiège, Belgium, 23–26 May 2000, organized
by ICT, the IAHS International Commission
on Groundwater and the International
Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH).
• International Workshop on Runoff Generation
and River Basin Modelling, Freiburg,
Germany, 9–12 October 2000.
• New Approaches to Characterizing
Groundwater Flow, Munich, Germany, 10–14
September 2001. Organized by IAH in
cooperation with ATH.
• AGU Chapman Conference on State of the Art
of Hillslope Hydrology, Sunriver, Oregon,
USA, 8–12 October 2001. The 5-day meeting,convened by Larry Band and Jeff McDonnell,
will include invited oral presentations andsubmitted poster presentations.
Future• Application of Isotopes to Arid Zone
Groundwater, Adelaide, Australia, 6–8
December 2001, organized by the Adelaide
Laboratory of the Centre for GroundwaterStudies and CSIRO Land and Water (contact:
Dr Andrew Herczeg,
andrew.herczeg@adl.clw.csiro.au).
Call for next TraM Conference in 2004 or2005

Due to the scientific success of TraM’2000:
International Conference on Tracers andModelling in Hydrogeology held at Liège, May
2000, ICT is considering organizing a similar
meeting jointly with IAH in the future (2004 or
2005?).
My best wishes to Jeff McDonnell, the new
President of ICT, and the ICT team!
Alain Dassargues, Past-President ICTIAHS Newsletter 73, November 2001

Reports on Meetings
SWICA-M3 —First International Conference
on Saltwater Intrusion and Coastal Aquifers:
Monitoring, Modelling and Management
Essaouira, Morocco, 23–25 April 2001
Two workshops, one on “Modelling flow and solutetransport in the subsurface” by Prof. Jacob Bear, andthe second on “Practical modelling of saltwater
intrusion: variable-density flow and solute transport
simulation using the US Geological Survey SUTRA
code” by Clifford I. Voss & Leonard F. Konikow, were
held 18–21 April, in conjunction with the SWICA-M 3
conference. The conference attracted about 300
international and local participants, and the workshops
were attended by about 25 people each. The
conference proceedings were published in a CD-rom.
By the courtesy of all participants, the entire CD-rom
contents can be downloaded from SaltNet:
http://www.olemiss.edu/sciencenet/saltnet/page8.html
Selected contributions from the conference were prepublished in a special issue of Transport in PorousMedia:
Cheng, A. H.-D., Konikow, L. F. & Ouazar, D. (guest
editors) Special Issue: Saltwater Intrusion in Coastal
Aquifers. Transport in Porous Media 43(1), April 2001.

Alexander H.-D. Cheng, Mississippi, USA

24of the workshop was the analysis of extremehydrological events; not only floods but also droughts.
Apart from rainfall–runoff models, statistical models
were also presented as suitable approaches fordescribing extreme events. Most of the theoreticalmodels were presented as case studies of river basinsfrom several parts of the world. The workshop washeld as a plenary session with about 30 full-paper
presentations and a number of poster presentations. A
book of abstracts had been distributed in advance of
the workshop, and a final proceedings volumecontaining all the presented papers and posters is inpreparation and scheduled to be printed in September
2001. During the three days of the workshop aninteresting programme was handled. Apart from thescientific exchanges, social activities also took placesuch as visits to the Peterhoff (palace of Peter theGreat, just outside the city) and a boat trip withdinner and drinks on the canals and the River Neva.
A larger meeting on the theme of extremehydrological events is planned to be jointly organizedin St Petersburg by the Russian State
Hydrometeorological University and the RussianState Hydrological Institute under IAHS sponsorshipin the autumn of 2003, which will be the 300-year
anniversary of the city of St Petersburg. The IAHS
Newsletter will keep you updated on the preparations
for this event.
Vadim A. Kuzmin, St Petersburg& Pieter H. A. J. M. van Gelder, Delft, The Netherlands

OH2
Dijon, France, 9–11 May 2001
Dijon is famous for mustard and, amongst
hydrologists, for Darcy, but from 9 to 11 May it waswhere the International Symposium on the Origins andHistory of Hydrology took place. The symposium wasattended by 100 or more historians, hydrologists andother scientists and the discussions were divided into
themes extending from antiquity to modern times.
Each theme was introduced by an invited paper,
starting with Prof. Jim Dooge’s review of concepts of
the hydrological cycle—ancient and modern, and these
papers explored a range of ideas and stories andtheories about water. The submitted papers covered awide range of topics, periods and locations: forexample, the history of the water supply to the city ofTyre, a retrovision on lagooning in France and thedevelopment of surface hydrology in the USA. The
concluding session chaired by Dr J. P. Carbonnel, who
was also the chair of the organizing committee,
discussed the content of the Dijon meeting and agreed
that there should be future symposia on the history ofhydrology. One suggestion, made subsequently, is for ameeting in Italy in 2004.
John Rodda, Brightwell cum Sotwell, Oxfordshire, UKInternational Workshop on River Runoff:
Minima and Maxima
St Petersburg, Russia, 6–8 June 2001
The International Workshop on River Runoff: Minima
and Maxima was organized by the Russian State
Hydrometeorological University of St Petersburg andtook place in the historical buildings of Smol’ny(former residence of Lenin and the first Soviet
Government). About 40 participants actively
participated in the workshop, of which 20 were
Russians and 20 came from abroad (Algeria, Chile,
Finland, France, UK, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands,
USA, Uzbekistan, and the Ukraine). The main theme

Groundwater Quality 2001:
Third International Conference on
Groundwater Quality
Sheffield, UK, 18–21 June 2001
Soil and groundwater pollution from historical urban
and industrial activities exists in all countries of theworld, and continues to occur. There remains a need tofind innovative and especially cost-effective methods
to clean up pollution in soils and aquifers. GQ2001, a
research-based conference hosted by the University of
Sheffield, addressed the newest understanding of
natural and enhanced restoration of pollutants ingroundwater and soils.
The main recommendations to emerge from theconference are:
In situ bioremediation is constrained by ourlimited understanding of subsurface microbiology.
Uncertainty in the delivery of treatment chemicals incomplex hydrogeological environments presents
significant challenges to scientists and engineers alike.
The addition of treatment chemicals to aquifers toenhance bioremediation needs the acceptance ofregulatory authorities before these emerging
technologies progress from pilot scale to full-scale
established technologies. One of the major unknowns
is the fate of biodegradable pollutants in dual porosity
aquifers, in particular the location of biological activity(matrix or fracture). Mass transfer mechanisms andrates need to be elucidated for complex component,
multi-phase contaminants in the soil, vadose andsaturated zones in these complex subsurface
environments.
Reactive barriers are now recognized as a valid
alternative to pump -and-treat where the operation timescale is believed to be long. However, experience todate has focused on relatively shallow plumes inpoorly consolidated geologies. Future research efforts

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should include the application of the barrier approachto contaminated groundwaters in deep consolidated
aquifers where groundwater supplies are often
impacted by long-lived contamination sources.
Source zone treatment has focused mainly on the
non-aqueous phase liquids (NAPLs). These pollutants,
in particular the DNAPLs, result in long-lived sourcesof contamination that are typically not suited totreatment by conventional remedial treatment
technologies such as pump -and-treat. Treatment
approaches may be highly site specific and further
work needs to be undertaken to identify plume timescale (100s to 1000s of years) benefits of partial mass
removal from NAPL source zones. Research efforts
need to identify technologies to deal with NAPLs indeep consolidated, and often dual-porosity, aquifers.
Research must also consider coupling combined sourcezone and plume treatment technologies and thedevelopment of predictive tools to assess theperformance of these enhanced treatment approaches.
Flow and transport modelling is used extensively
in the design and performance evaluation of pilot scale
tests conducted to remediate contaminated sites. The
development of predictive models to represent thelong-term behaviour of pollutants in groundwater andassess the performance of remediation technologies
requires essential underpinning from a range of
disciplines. Research efforts should focus on
incorporating heterogeneity, inherent in complex
sedimentary architecture and fractured dual porosity
domains, in multi-process models.
Site characterization to identify the location andmass distribution of pollutants in heterogeneousenvironments is essential in identifying the risk topotential receptors, for focusing remediation
technologies and in providing “base-line” data for
performance assessment. Our understanding ofpollutant distribution is seriously limited by the ability
to measure and represent both geological features andcontaminant distribution at appropriate scales. The
amount of uncertainty determines how effectively wedeliver, treat and assess the performance ofremediation technologies. The characterization of
DNAPL source zones for delineating the distributionof DNAPL and in focusing remediation technologies
remains a significant challenge—at present there are
no DNAPL sites in deep consolidated aquifers wherefull site characterization has been validated.
The prevalence of contaminants at hazardous waste
sites is well documented; if they are not removed or
sequestered, they can contaminate millions of litres ofgroundwater over time scales of decades and evencenturies. The remediation of polluted groundwater isdriven by the need to reduce risks by achieving
regulatory compliance, or in reducing liabilities, at theleast cost. Variability in the nature of the pollutant
source, the uncertainty in the pathways for plumemigration and the wide scope of potential remediation
scenarios due to site specific constraints suggest that
integrated remediation technologies offer the greatest
hope for the cost-effective remediation of polluted
groundwater. Prior to investing in remedialtechnologies, decision makers want to know thebenefits, both short term and long term, that will bederived from a proposed remedial activity. However,
we are faced with a legacy of pollutant source zones
that will generate plumes for many centuries, andperhaps longer. A significant paradigm shift istherefore required to manage groundwater pollution on
appropriate time scales, a long-term strategy isrequired that challenges current approaches that are
constrained by 30–40 year fiscal cycles.
(This report is extracted from a document developed toprovide recommendations to the sixth phase of the
UNESCO International Hydrological Programme (IHP)
2002–2007, in particular the implementation of thegroundwater resources component under the coordinationof Dr A. Aureli, Division of Water Science, UNESCO,
Paris, France.)
Gary Wealthall & David Lerner, Sheffield, UK

Conference on the Role of Water in History
and Development: Second Conference of theInternational Water History Association
Bergen, Norway, 10–12 August 2001
The second conference of the International Water
History Association (IWHA) on the Role of Water inHistory and Development was a great success with 280
participants from more than 70 countries and 184
presented papers on a variety of interdisciplinary
subjects. The background of the participants included:
history/archaeology/anthropology,
geography/environmental sciences, socio-economic/
political sciences, water management/hydrology andlaw. Most contributions emphasized the interaction ofwater management/water use and socio-economic
developments, including political implications andenvironmental aspects. Only a few specializedhydrologists attended the conference, which wasreflected in the restricted number of papers associatedwith the technological and scientific evolution ofhydrology.
The sessions were organized along the following
themes:• Political economy of water—ownership andcontrol• Images of water in religion, myths, literature andart• History of hydrology, water control and narratives
on the river and the dam• Water, poverty and social developments• The history of water, sanitation and healthAs hydrologists, we are used to being confronted
with questions on water management, water use andenvironmental issues, which in fact are the main
reasons for the scientific study of water. And we arefamiliar with as many stories on misuse andmismanagement of water within large schemes as on
successful projects. As a natural scientis t, I found it aninteresting experience to hear the views and analyses
from the disciplines of humanities on many of theseenterprises. To mention a few:
• The hydrological aspects of the rise and the declineof agriculture on the High Plains of the USA.
• The evolution of ideas on river management insoutheast Asia —technological/hydrologicalexpertise vs political decisions.
• The role of water power on European
industrialization and the change in attitude throughenvironmental awareness.
• The political background of the gigantic diversion
schemes for the Siberian rivers in the former Soviet
Union.
Hydrological sciences contributions included:
Medieval Moslem hydro-technology; Application ofnineteenth century hydraulic knowledge on the
distribution of irrigation water in the Indus basin; Thedevelopment of rainfall–runoff models in the USA

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during the “Big Dam Era”; Scientific development ofgroundwater hydrology in The Netherlands.
The conference, which also marked the formal
establishment of the IWHA, proved that there is anevident need for an interdisciplinary forum for theunderstanding of water history. The association’s aim
is to become this forum and to foster a stronger
relationship between those engaged in water history as
well as water administrators, engineers, planners andother practitioners. As such it is expected to makemajor contributions to the theme “Water and society”
of UNESCO’s IHP-VI, and especially to the IHP
project “History of water and civilization”, which aims
towards the production of a multi-volume series onwater history. Closely related to the IWHA and the
IHP project is the development of a database for
information on all facts and aspects of water and water
history at the University of Bergen. The Norwegian
Research Council is the main sponsor of the thisproject for the period 2001–2006; additional funding
will come from the Dutch government.
It is evident that the hydrology organizations,notably IAHS and the International Association of
Hydrogeologists, should participate in these initiatives
and should stimulate their members to get involved in
the study of water history in order to be better prepared
for the future through lessons that can be learned fromthe past. Another player in this field is the Standing
Committee on the History, Drainage and Flood Controlof the International Commission on Drainage andIrrigation (ICID) and the closely related German
Frontinus Gesellschaft. The latter society, whichmainly studies the technical aspects of ancient water
works, was also represented in Bergen to show its
interest in cooperation. For more information on the
IWHA and the abstracts of the conference, consult:www.ihwa.net
Jacobus de Vries, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

International Conference on Hydrological
Challenges in Transboundary Water
Resources Management
Koblenz, Germany, 25–27 September 2001
The global situation is characterized by the fact thatabout 50% of the world’s land surface belongs totransboundary water systems forming half of theoverall freshwater resources. These resources
determine the living conditions of about half ofmankind.
Increasing demands and declining water quality,
growing vulnerability from floods and droughts,
alarming water-borne health and eco-hydrologicalproblems confront water resources management withchallenges that need comprehensive strategies forproviding water of adequate quantity and quality andprotecting man and nature from adverse impacts.
Sustainable solutions for transboundary water systems
are therefore of high priority.
The main topics of the conference, organized by
the German IHP/OHP National Committee, were hot
spot analysis of hydrological problems, integratedhydrological networks and information systems,
methodologies for analysing hydrological processes inlarge-scale water systems, institutional and legal
challenges of transboundary hydrological cooperation,and experiences and challenges for sustainable
development in transboundary water systems.
The participants came from 34 countries and many
international organizations were represented. The
conference supported the International Hydrological

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Programme of UNESCO (IHP-V project 4.1:
International water systems). At the end of theconference the participants agreed on the following
conclusions and recommendations:• The conference demonstrated that there is anincreasing trend to adopt sustainable policies towater resources development and to apply
integrated water resources management (IWRM)
practices in transboundary water resources systems(including rivers, lakes, aquifers and coastal seas)
to implement these policies.
• There was a consensus that an integrated approach
to water resources management practices byinstitutions at the national level will facilitate andimprove transboundary cooperation.
• A number of examp les were presented which
demonstrated that valuable scientific methodologies and good practices for transboundary water
resources systems, that are worth disseminating,exist in some parts of the world.
• The participants expressed the need for improving
the exchange and access to comparablehydrological data and information, andstrengthening institutional facilities and capacitybuilding in transboundary water resources systems.
• The participants stressed that assessment of water
resources based on good quality data is a key
prerequisite for the establishment and functioningof collaboration in transboundary water systems.
• The participants recognized that monitoring
systems in many parts of the world largely need to
be improved to supply valuable data andinformation for decision-making. Assessment oflong-term variations in river runoff, sediment yieldand pollutants under the effect of man's impact andclimate change should be given recognition. It isurged to strengthen joint monitoring oftransboundary water systems.
• Several case studies were presented which showed
the importance of confidence-building measures toimprove the culture of collaboration, cooperationand joint decision-making in transboundary water
resources management. At the same time, the cases
presented demonstrated the importance ofeconomic incentives to be provided by theinternational community to facilitate the mediation
processes.
• The participants called upon the UN system tocontinue their efforts to effectively facilitate collaboration in transboundary water systems management. The UN-wide World Water Assessment
Programme projects and initiatives and the UN
worldwide and regional (UN/ECE) conventions
were welcomed. International governmentalorganizations, governments, scientific/technicalnongovernmental organizations are called upon to
support and to contribute to these initiatives.
• The participants expressed the wish that as many
countries as possible should participate in andimplement regional and global agreements on theutilization and protection of transboundary water
resources systems with a view to achieving asustainable international water order.
The papers and posters of the conference have been
published in the series IHP/OHP-Berichte,
Sonderheft 12, obtainable from: Bundesanstalt fürGewässerkunde, IHP/OHP Secretariat, Koblenz,
Germany (fax: +49 261 13065422;
e-mail: hofius@bafg.de).
Gerhard Strigel, Koblenz, Germany

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Forthcoming Events(all meetings are organized or sponsored by IAHS and/or its
Commissions)

IAHS Prediction of Ungauged Basins (PUBS)
Open Meeting
San Francisco, California, USA, 13 December 2001
Call for participation

A meeting organized by Dr Al Rango will be held
during the Fall Meeting of the American GeophysicalUnion (AGU) in Room MC, between 5:30 and 7:00
p.m. on 13 December.
In order to focus the scientific activities of IAHS
and to make the scientific potentials practical, IAHS
initiated a unique science discussion over the internet.
Many exchanges took place and numerous areas ofresearch were proposed. One proposal that received
enthusiastic support from the various IAHS scientificcommissions and individuals was on the subject of
research on ungauged basins. In The Netherlands inJuly 2001 at the Sixth Scientific Assembly of IAHS, it
was recommended that a Working Group on Predictionof Ungauged Basins be established, and that thisworking group should hold a series of open discussion
meetings and workshops to define the appropriate
research approaches to follow in addressing theungauged basins p roblem. The meeting at AGU will be
the first meeting in the series.
For more information contact:
Dr Al Rango
USDA-ARS Jornada Experimental Range,
401 E. College Avenue, PO Box 30003, New Mexico
State University, MSC 3JER, Las Cruces,
New Mexico 88003, USA[tel.: +1 505 6462120; fax: +1 505 6465889;
alrango@nmsu.edu]

Session HSA4.03: Hydrological andMeteorological Coupling in Mountain Areas at
the XXVII General Assembly of the European
Geophysical Society
Nice, France, 22–26 April 2002
Call for abstracts

The IAHS International Commission on Tracers is cosponsoring a session on the theme: Hydrology and
Earth System Sciences. The aim of this session is topresent the symbiosis of meteorological and hydrological processes at a range of high elevation scales, extending from single sites to basins and mountain ranges andover a range of time steps, from hourly to annual.
This session invites contributions onunderstanding, monitoring and modelling of individual
or coupled meteorological and hydrological issues inmountain environments. From a meteorological
viewpoint, contributions are welcome on fundamental
interface processes: evapotranspiration, precipitation,
temperature, humidity and wind profiles. From ahydrological viewpoint, work can include topographyrelated evaporation, transpiration, slope water
dynamics, glacier mass balance, snowmelt, anddischarge with special emphasis on floods. Since
measurement and modelling of key hydrological andmeteorological variables often pose logistical andscientific problems in mountain regions, an introduction to alternative instrumentation, remote sensing(space- and airborne) and new approaches is welcome.
The preliminary scientific programme is available at:
http://www.copernicus.org/EGS/egsga/nice02/programmC/HES.program.htm

The deadline for abstracts is 11 January 2002. A
copy of each abstract should be submitted in EGSformat (http://www.copernicus.org/EGS/egsga/nice0
1/abstract submission txt.htrn~) both directly to the
EGS office via e-mail (egs@copernicus.org) as well as
to:Dr Carmen de Jong
Berlin Environmental Research Group (BERG),
Institut für Geographische Wissenschaften,
FR Angewandte Physische Geographie, FU Berlin,
Malteserstrasse 74–100, D-12249 Berlin, Germany[tel.: +49 30 83870254/252; fax: +49 30 77391758;
e-mail: cdjong@geog.fu-berlin.de]

It is anticipated that the proceedings will be
published in a Springer Science Book as a joint effort
towards the International Year of the Mountains. The
aims of the book are to give an overview on
experimental and theoretical techniques in hydrology
and meteorology of high mountain basins. The bookwill include contributions from both this EGS session
and those from the preceding year on “Water balanceof high mountain basins” and “Hydrometeorologicalprocesses in mountain regions”.
Limited support is available from EGS for: Young
Scientist’s Travel Award (YSTA), East European
Support Award (EESA), Adrain Gill Travel Award(AGTA), and the Keith Runcorn Travel Award forNorth Americans (KRTA). Simply add the appropriate
abbreviation in the abstract submission information.
Additional applications for financial assistance can bemade via Dr Carmen de Jong to the German
International Year of the Mountains Committee.
Students and scientists from developing countries will
be given priority.

Fifth International Conference on
Hydroinformatics: Hydroinformatics 2002
Cardiff, UK, 1–5 July 2002
Reminder of abstract deadline

This conference is sponsored by the International
Association for Hydraulic Engineering and Research(IAHR) and IAHS, and the topics include, but are notlimited to:• Decision support and management systems• Integration of technologies and systems• Geographic information systems (GIS)• Tools, environments and languages• Numerical engines• Data acquisition and management• Data mining and knowledge discovery• Neural networks in hydroinformatics• Evolutionary algorithms in hydroinformatics• Internet, intranets and extranets• Inverse modelling and data assimilation• Uncertainty and risk
• Ecology and water quality modelling• Experiences with modelling systems
The deadline for abstracts was extended to
26 October 2001. For further details contact:
Cherrie Summers
Hydroinformatics 2002 Secretariat, Cardiff Schoolof Engineering, Cardiff University, Queen’s
Buildings, PO Box 917, Cardiff CF24 0XH, UK[tel./fax: +44 29 20874421; summersc@cardiff.ac.uk]

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or visit the web site:
http://www.cf.ac.uk/engin/news/confs/hydroThe Third Inter-Celtic Colloquium on
Hydrology and Management of Water
Resources—Celtic Water in a European
Framework: Pointing the Way to Quality
Galway, Ireland, 8–10 July 2002
Call for papers

The Third Inter-Celtic Colloquium follows those which
took place in Rennes and Aberystwyth, in 1996 and2000, respectively. The meeting is organized under theaegis of IAHS with support from a number of the Irish
National Committees and other bodies.
During the past year, publication and enactment of
the European Union Water Framework Directive has
set challenging targets for member states in relation to
the long-term management of European water resources.
By the year 2016, water quality of all surface andground waters in member states must, through a combination of planning, treatment and remediation, be
returned to their original pristine state—a formidable
challenge indeed! Some of the issues involved in thistask will be addressed at this colloquium.
Papers are invited on all relevant topics andespecially on the following:• Water quality—pressures and responses, past,present and future• Integrated river basin management—planning forthe future• Scientific support for management: hydrologicalprocesses and models —limitations anduncertainties• Risk assessment, perception and management:
extreme rainfalls, floods, droughts and climatechange• Social history of water use in Celtic lands
Papers, not exceeding 12 pp., will be pre-publishedin the colloquium proceedings. Poster presentations arealso welcome. Papers will be accepted in a Celtic
language, English, or French, with the abstract in twoof these languages.
For further details and pre-registration, pleasecontact:
Prof. Con Cunnane
Department of Engineering Hydrology,
National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland[tel.: +353 91 750425; fax: +353 91 524913;
conleth.cunnane@nuigalway.ie]

or look at:
http://www.nuigalway.ie/hydrology/celtic.htm

International Symposium on Lowlying Coastal
Areas: Hydrology and Integrated Coastal
Zone Management
Bremerhaven, Germany, 9–12 September 2002
Call for abstracts

This symposium is being organized by the German
National Committee for the International Hydrological
Programme of UNESCO and the Hydrology and Water
Resources Programme of WMO. The symposium cosponsors include IAHS.
The following topics will be discussed:
1. Climate change and hydrology (invited speakers)
Impacts on coastlines and estuaries, geologicaldynamics, sea-level change, extreme events, tidal
dynamics, interactions, drainage aspects.

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2. Hydrology of water stress conditions (casestudies by invited speakers) Demand for and use ofnatural resources by agriculture, aquaculture,industry, tourism and urbanization, impact on theenvironment.
3. Tools for coastal zone management Risk
assessment and risk management, GIS, structuraldesign criteria, policies, community participation,
education.
4. Measures for integrated coastal zone
management Non-structural and structural
measures, low-cost strategies, legal aspects.
Participants intending to present a paper or a poster
on topics 3 or 4 are requested to send an abstract inEnglish of 300–400 words before 15 November 2001.
Papers accepted for publication in the symposium
proceedings must be submitted in camera-ready form
before 15 April 2002.
For further details, or to submit an abstract, pleasecontact:
Gerhard Strigel
Bundesanstalt für Gewässerkunde
IHP/OHP Secretariat, PO Box 200253,
D-56002 Koblenz, Germany[fax: +49 261 13065422; strigel@bafg.de]or visit the web site:
http://www.bafg.de/html/aktuell

Second International Symposium on Flood
Defence: the Prospect of Living with Floods inthe 21st Century (ISFD’2002)
Beijing, China, 10–13 September 2002
Call for abstracts

The second ISFD follows the symposium held in
Kassel, Germany, in 2000, exploring state-of-the-art
technology and bringing together colleagues fromaround the world to address critical issues in thepractice of flood defence. IAHS is one of thesponsoring organizations. The symposium in China
will provide not only a forum for exchange of the latest
development in flood defence but also a chance for theparticipants of the conference to see the developmentof hydraulic engineering in China.
The symposium topics are:• History of flood defence• Precipitation, vegetation, and hydrology• Flood modelling• Pollution and disease pathogens• Flood plains and flood-plain management• Disasters induced by sedimentation and erosion• Landslides and debris flow
• Reservoirs and reservoir management• Environmental impact of floods• Urban drainage systems• Global climate modelling• Coastal floods and storm surges• New developments in flood prevention• Drainage management• Real-time control of flooding• Strategies/concepts on flood defence• Laws and policies on flood control• Experience and practices in flood control• Engineering measures mitigating flooding disasters• Flood insurance• Hydroinformatics

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Key dates are: one-page abstracts due 31 January
2002; full-length paper due 31 May 2002. Pleasesubmit abstracts to Dr Baosheng Wu (address below).
For further information please visit the ISFD’2002
web site:
http://www.irtces.org/isshhu/2ISFD.htm
or contact:
Dr Baosheng Wu
ISFD’2002 Secretary, Department of HydraulicEngineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084,
China[tel.: +86 10 62772097; fax: +86 10 62772463;
baosheng@tsinghua.edu.cn]

ICHE-2002: Fifth International Conference on
Hydro-science and Hydro-engineering
Warsaw, Poland, 18–21 September 2002
Reminder of abstract deadline

The central theme of this conference, whose sponsors
include UNESCO, IAHS and the International
Association for Hydraulic Engineering and Research
is: Hydro-science and Hydro-engineering in the
Changing World—challenges, opportunities andconstraints. Special emphasis will be laid on waterrelated issues special to the quickly developing
transition economies. The deadline for abstracts (inEnglish) is 15 December 2001, and the deadline forsubmission of camera-ready papers is 30 April 2002.
The conference topics are:• Environmental hydraulics• Subsurface hydraulics• Hydrology and hydraulics of fluvial systems• Hydraulic structures• Hydraulics of maritime engineering• Water management systems• Web-based education and engineering
For more information see: http://www.iche2000.pl.
All correspondence should be directed to:Prof. Janusz Kindler
Chairman Local Organizing Committee, Facultyof Environmental Engineering, Warsaw Universityof Technology, 20 Nowowiejska Street,00-653 Warsaw, Poland[tel.: +48 22 6214560; fax: +48 22 6257377;
dziekan@is.pw.edu.pl]

International Conference on Urban Hydrology
for the 21st Century
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 14–18 October 2002
Call for abstracts

This conference is mainly targeted at countries in thehumid tropical regions. In conjunction with theconference, the International Hydrological Programmeof UNESCO for Southeast Asia and the Pacific willhold its 10th Regional Steering Committee Meeting.
The theme of the conference is: Induced Problems in
Urban Environment Requiring Holistic Solutions for
the New Millennium, with the objectives:
1. to foster better coordination and information exchange;
2. to encourage public participation to create
opportunities for concrete actions that address local
problems;
3. to promote continued interaction between scientists
and managers;
4. to create networking/coordination amongorganizations at the hemispheric, national andregional levels.

The main topics will be:• Mathematical rainfall–runoff modelling• Urban hydrology/instrumentation/data collection• Emerging urban hydrology issues
The deadline for submission of abstracts is
15 December 2001. Participants intending to present
papers or posters are required to send extended
abstracts in English, providing a clear statement of theissues, methods and conclusions of the proposed
contribution. Authors should indicate whether thepapers submitted are for oral or poster presentation andthe theme(s) chosen.
For further information and submission of
abstracts, please contact:
Dr Mohd Nor bin Mohd DesaInternational Conference on Urban Hydrology forthe 21st Century, HTC Kuala Lumpur,
Department of Irrigation and Drainage Malaysia,
Km. 7 Jalan Ampang, 68000 Ampang,
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia[tel.: +60 3 42552507/502/508/575;
fax: +60 3 42561894; htckl@pop.moa.my]or visit the web site:
http://htc.moa.my/htc/icuh2002/icuh2002.html

The International Conference of Preventing
and Fighting Hydrological Disasters
Timisoara, Romania, 21–22 November 2002
Call for abstracts

This conference is being organized by the RomanianNational Committee for IHP-UNESCO, “Politehnica”
University Timisoara, Hydrotechnical Faculty, and the
Romanian Water Authority W. D. Banat, under thehigh patronage of Ion Iliescu, President of Romania,
and under the auspices of IAHS.
The objectives are:
1. Exchanges of opinion regarding the scientificapproach to hydrological extremes.
2. The presentation of the results of some research,
application and recent experiments.
3. To find the directions for future research.
The conference topics are:• Natural and accidental floods
flood forecasting and flood warning
concepts concerning the prevention of the effectsof floods
structural and nonstructural solutions
soil erosion, sediment transport and sedimentation
systems and schemes for the management of floods
physical and numerical modellinginteraction between river and floodable/wet areas
large/small hydrographical catchments• Hydrological droughts
Short/long-term forecasting
potential desertification
approaches in the case of insufficient data
integrated/numerical systems and models
water as an economic, social and environmental
goodwater management subordinated to water scarcity
uses and recycling of water resources• Water quality and environmental impact
ecohydrological processes at the catchment scaleinteraction between surface water and groundwater
water resources protection
water quality modelling
accidental pollution
environmental impact evaluation

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• Policies and strategies preventing the exhaustionand pollution of water resources
traditional/modern approaches
informational and decisional systems
advanced monitoring
conflicts between water uses and the environment
instruction and educational systems
politics, strategies and legislation in the water field
globalization, privatization, water as a public good
global change of climate phenomena
The languages of the conference will be English
and Romanian. Important deadlines are: 15 December
2001 for pre-registration and abstract submission(400–500 words in English) by electronic mail; 15 April
2002 for the full text of contributions (in English).
For more information contact:
Gheorghe Cretu
Conference Secretariat, University “Politehnica”
Timisoara, Facultatea de Hidrotehnica, Str. George
Enescu nr. 1A, 1900 Timisoara, Romania[tel./fax: +40 56 221481; e-mail: gcr@mail.dnttm.ro]or visit:
http://www.utt.ro/pfhd

16th IAHR International Symposium on Ice
Dunedin, New Zealand, 2–6 December 2002
Call for abstracts

The IAHS International Commission on Snow and Ice
is co-sponsoring the International Symposium on Ice
that is being organized by the International Associationfor Hydraulic Engineering and Research. The
symposium will cover a range of issues in river, lakeand sea ice research, including:• Ice mechanics and forces• Broken ice in rivers, lakes and oceans• Ice forecasting and management• Ice–ocean–atmosphere interactions• Global climate change and ice-covered waters• Ice ecology and management• Navigation in ice-covered waters• Transport of pollutants and nutrients in ice• Thermal regimes in rivers and lakes
Please send abstracts to the address below by thedeadline of 1 March 2002. Camera-ready typescripts
will be due by 2 August 2002.
A Workshop on Ice Crushing will be held during
the week of the conference. Other specialist workshops
may also be organized.
The second announcement/circular will be
distributed to those who register interest.
For the latest information on this meeting see:
http://www.physics.otago.ac.nz/~nzice/or contact:
Pat Langhorne
16th IAHR International Symposium on Ice,
Department of Physics, University of Otago,
PO Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand[tel.: +64 3 4797749; fax: +64 3 4790964;
nzice@physics.otago.ac.nz]

International Conference on the Hydrology of
the Mediterranean and Semiarid Regions
Montpellier, France, 7–10 April 2003
Call for abstracts

All over the world, the hydrological variability ofregions under a Mediterranean or a semiarid climate is30

due to a combination of heavy rainfall irregularly
distributed in time and space, heterogeneous land
topography and high anthropogenic pressures. Due tothese conditions, it is difficult to plan and manage
water resources for competing users: both traditional
and irrigated farming, human consumption,hydroelectric production, protection against droughts
and floods in rural and urban areas, erosion, etc.
These difficulties clearly indicate the real need todeepen our knowledge of the hydrological regimes inMediterranean and semiarid regions, particularly(i) their spatial and temporal variability, (ii) the surface
and groundwater transfer mechanisms over river
basins, (iii) the extreme events, (iv) the surface andgroundwater resources and their integrated
management.
This conference aims at taking stock ofhydrological research conducted in these different
fields. Furthermore, it is hoped the conference will
provide an opportunity for the exchange andcomparison of research priorities, methods, data,
knowledge and results, acquired by scientific teams
from around the world who are working for a better
understanding of the hydrological phenomena
observed under Mediterranean and semiarid climates.
The conference themes will be:• Climatic variability and hydrological consequences• Extreme climatic and hydrological phenomena(floods and droughts)• Erosion and sediment transport• Surface and groundwater resources• Consequences of human activity (pollution, change
of vegetation, overexploitation)• Integrated water resources management• Coastal areas (lagoons)
Participation is expected from experts in domains
such as: hydrology, climatology, agronomy,geography, environment.
The conference proceedings will be pre-published
as an IAHS Red Book. Results will also be released on
the conference website:
http://mpl.ird.fr/montpellier2003
The deadline for abstracts is 15 December 2001;
and the deadline for receipt of full papers is 1 July 2002.
The mailing address for abstracts and for more
information is:
Muriel Tapiau, Conference 2003,
Laboratoire HydroSciences Montpellier,UMR 5569, BP 5045, F-34032 Montpellier Cedex,
France[tel.: +33 4 67149020; fax: +33 4 67149010;
montpellier2003@msem.univ-montp2.fr]

Other NewsThe Third World Water Forum
After Marrakech (Morocco) in 1997 and The
Hague (The Netherlands) in 2000, a third Water
Forum will be held in Kyoto, Shiga and Osaka(Japan) from 16 to 23 March 2003. To launch the
preparations for this important event, which is
expected to attract thousands of people interested
in all aspects of water problems, a “kick-off
meeting” was organized last March in Kyoto. Inorder to propose a contribution from IAHS to theForum, Kuni Takeuchi and Pierre Hubert

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IAHS Newsletter 73, November 2001

Mr Hideaki Oda, Chairman of the Third World Water Forum between the IAHS
President, Kuni Takeuchi (left), and Secretary General, Pierre Hubert (right).

logical, 1 water balance,
5 lake, 3 snow–avalanche
and14
aviational
meteostations, 1 zonal
aviational centre, 1 upperair meteorological complex,
2 stations for backgroundmonitoring and 87 sites foragrometeorological observations.
For this 80th anniversary the Hydrometeorological Service of Uzbekistan
has issued a booklet inEnglish with a comprehensive presentation of its
purposes and activities,
which is available from the
Deputy Director:

participated in this meeting and made, together
Ludmila Borovikova
with other organizations, like IAHR (International
Deputy Director, Central Asian
Association for Hydraulic Engineering andHydrometeorological Institute, 72 K. Makhsumov,
Research) and IAH (International Association of
Tashkent 700052, Uzbekistan
Hydrogeologists) some proposals which are now
being reviewed by the Organizing Committee Happy Anniversary to Glavgidromet from IAHS!
chaired by Mr Hideaki Oda. We hope thatsciences in general and especially hydrology Retirement of Professor Hans Liebscher
will find a place in the Third World Water
On 31 May there was a colloquium at the Federal
Forum.
You can find all available information on the Institute of Hydrology in Koblenz to mark the65th birthday and the retirement of Hans
Third World Water Forum on its web site:
Liebscher after many years of service in the
http://www.worldwaterforum.org
which is linked to the homepage of the IAHS web Institute. The day’s programme started with an
introduction by Prof. Volkhard Wetzel (Director)
site.
followed by eight invited papers, the last by Hans
himself on the history and development of runoff
80th Anniversary of themodels. During his career Hans organized theHydrometeorological Service of
IAHS Scientific Assembly at Hamburg in 1983,
Uzbekistan
he was President of the Surface Water
The Main Administration on Hydrometeorology Commission from 1983 to 1987 and herepresented Germany at many sessions of the IHPat the cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of
Uzbekistan (Glavgidromet) is a state body with Intergovernmental Council and of the WMO
the status of a Ministry. Glavgidromet is Commission for Hydrology. He fostered the
responsible for the interdepartmental management establishment of the Global Runoff Data Centreof all types of hydrometeorological services and at Koblenz and has chaired its Steeringobservations, including environmental pollution Committee.
John Rodda, Brightwell cum Sotwell, UK
monitoring over the territory of Uzbekistan, andis responsible for the state of the art anddevelopment of the relevant activities.
André Van der Beken (Belgium) on
In the year of the tenth anniversary of the sabbaticalindependence of the Republic of Uzbekistan, theNational Hydrometeorological Service celebrates André Van der Beken has been given sabbaticalits 80th anniversary. It is one of the oldest leave by the Department of Hydrology andscientific and operational institutions in central Hydraulic Engineering, Free University ofAsia. The official date of its beginning is 7 May Brussels. During the academic year 2001–2002
he will work with Dr Janos Bogardi of the
1921.
Hydrological
Programme
Today the staff of the hydrometeorological International
service includes more than 3000 specialists, from (UNESCO) towards launching the GOUTTE ofwhich five are doctors and 48 candidates of WATER (Global Organization of Universities
science. The work of the hydrometeorological for Teaching, Training and Ethics of Water)
service is based on an observational network at project of IHP-VI (2002–2007). He will apply his
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tional networking to investigate best practices indifferent modes of networking and to prepare a
blueprint for the operational activities of
GOUTTE of WATER. He will continue tocoordinate the European Network of Education
and Training (ETNET) for ENVIRONMENT—WATER:
http://keywater.vub.ac.beand the European Union–USA Cooperation
Project in Higher Education and Vocational
Training Exchanges in Environmental/Water
Engineering and Sciences:
http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/EWRESBoth projects are funded by the European
Commission. Anybody interested in Prof. Van
der Beken’s survey on networking practices iskindlyinvitedtocontacthim(avdbeken@vub.ac.be). A web site about the
project is being designed, where you will be
invited to add your networking activities/bestpractices.

New UNESCO Regional Hydrologist for
the Arab Region
Welcome to the new Regional Hydrologist for the
Arab Region in UNESCO, who is also a member:of IAHS:Dr Radwan Al-Weshah
Programme Specialist/Regional Hydrologist,
UNESCO Cairo Office, 8 Abdel Rahman Fahmy
Street, Garden City, Cairo 11541, Egypt[tel.: +202 7945599/7943036; fax: +202 7945296;
r.weshah@mail.unesco.org.eg]

Dr Al-Weshah is based in Cairo and willsupervise the implementation of IHP activities in
the Arab World.

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Changes to IAHS National
Representatives
Please note the following changes to the list of
IAHS National Representatives published in the
IAHS Handbook (pp. 87–94) in 2000:
Egypt/Egypte
NEW National
Prof. Nasser M. H. Abou Ashour
Representative
Geophysics Department,
Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University,
Abbassia, Cairo, Egypt
e-mail: aboashor@asunet.shams.eun.eg
fax:+202 4842123

India/Inde
Dr Subhash Chander
72 Deshbandhu Apartments,
Kalkaji, New Delhi 110019, India

tel. added andadditional e-mail!

e-mail: schander@ndf.vsnl.net.in or schander@teri.res.intel.:+91 11 6286516

NEW National

Switzerland/Suisse
Representative
Dr Rolf Weingartner
Gruppenleiter Hydrologie/Projektleiter HADES,
Geographisches Institut der Universität Bern,
Hallerstrasse 12, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerlande-mail : wein@giub.unibe.ch or wein@bluewin.ch
fax:+41 31 6318511
tel.:+41 31 6318874 (direct) or 6318015 (Secretariat)

Taiwan/Taiwan
Prof. Yih-Chi Tan
Department of Agricultural Engineering and Hydrotech
Research Institute, 1, Section 4 Roosevelt Road,
Taipei 106, Taiwan
NEW National
e-mail: yctan@ccms.ntu.edu.tw
fax:+886 2 23639557
tel.:+886 2 23690342

Representative

The full and revised list of IAHS National
Representatives can be found at:
http://www.cig.ensmp.fr/~iahs

Calendar of Meetings Organized/Sponsored by IAHS
Heian-Kaikan,
Kyoto, Japan
19–22 November
San Francisco,California, USA
13 December

Berne,
Switzerland
6–8 March
Cape Town,
South Africa
18–22 March

2001
Prof. Eiichi Nakakita, Water Resources Research Center, DPRI, Kyoto University,
Uji, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan
tel.: +81 774 384260; fax: +81 774 323093; radconf@civil.ac;
http://www.eie.gee.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~nakakita/radarconf/5thconf2.html
Dr Al Rango, USDA-ARS Jornada Experimental Range, 401 E. College Avenue,
PO Box 30003, New Mexico State University, MSC 3JER, Las Cruces,
New Mexico 88003, USA
tel.: +1 505 6462120; fax: +1 505 6465889; alrango@nmsu.edu
2002
International Conference on Flood Estimation, Federal Office for Water andGeology, CH-3003 Berne, Switzerland
tel.: +41 31 3247758; fax: +41 31 3247681; floodestimation@bwg.admin.ch;
http:/hydrant.unibe.ch
FRIEND 2002, Institute for Water Research, Rhodes University, PO Box 94,
Grahamstown 6140, South Africa
juanita@iwr.ru.ac.za; http://www.ru.ac.za/institutes/iwr

Fifth International Symposium on
Hydrological Applications of Weather
Radar—Radar Hydrology
IAHS Prediction of Ungauged Basins(PUBS) Open Meeting

International Conference on Flood
Estimation

FRIEND 2002: Fourth International
Conference on FRIEND—Bridging the Gap
between Research and Practice33
Berkeley,
California, USA
25–29 March
Paestum, Italy
8–10 April
Nice, France
22–26 April

Paris, France
13–15 June
Prague,Czech Republic
17–20 June
Turin, Italy
17–21 June
Capri, Italy
24–28 June
Cardiff, UK
1–5 July

Galway, Ireland
8–10 July
Dresden,Germany
22–26 July
Alice Springs,
Australia
2–6 September
Bremerhaven,
Germany
9–12 September
Beijing, China
10–13 September
Warsaw, Poland
18–21 September

Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia
14–18 October
Timisoara,
Romania
21–22 November

IAHS Newsletter 73, November 2001
Dr Angelos Findikakis, Bechtel Systems & Infrastructure Inc.,
Mail Stop 333/12/C34, PO Box 3965, San Francisco, California 94119-3965,
USA
tel.: +1 415 7688550; fax: +1 415 7684898; anfindik@bechtel.com;
http://www.iahr.nl/conferences/groundwater2002/groundwater2002.htm
Ing. Mario Scagnetto, Via Nigra 38/b Mestre, I-30170 Venezia, Italytel. +39 339 5831289; mhcify.bh@usa.net
Dr Carmen de Jong, Berlin Environmental Research Group (BERG), Institut für
Geographische Wissenschaften, FR Angewandte Physische Geographie, FU
Berlin, Malteserstrasse 74–100, D-12249 Berlin, Germany
tel.: +49 30 83870254/252; fax: +49 30 77391758;
e-mail: cdjong@geog.fu-berlin.de;
http://www.copernicus.org/EGS/egsga/nice0 1/abstract submission txt.htrn~
UNESCO, Division of Water Sciences, 1 Rue Miollis, F-75732 Paris Cedex 15,
Francetel.: +33 1 45684001; fax: +33 1 45685811; ihp@unesco.org
Conference Secretariat ModelCARE 2002, Guarant Ltd, Opletalova 22,
11000 Prague 1, Czech Republic
tel.: +420 2 84001444; fax: +420 2 84001448; modelcare2002@guarant.cz;
http://www.guarant.cz/ModelCARE2002
Antonello Provenzale, Istituto di Cosmogeofisica, Consiglio Nazionale delle
Richerche, Corso Fiume 4, I-10133 Turin, Italy
tel.: +39 011 6306806; fax: +39 011 6604056; anto@icg.to.infn.it;
http://www.icg.to.infn.it/cmg2002
Dr Rossella Monti, Centro Studi Idraulici par l'Ambiente, Politecnico di Milano,
Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, I-20133 Milan, Italy
tel.: +39 02 6683624; fax: +39 02 23996298; monti@marina.iar.polimi.it
Cherrie Summers, Hydroinformatics 2002 Secretariat, Cardiff School ofEngineering, Cardiff University, Queen's Buildings, PO Box 917,
Cardiff CF24 0XH, UK
tel./fax: +44 29 20874421; summersc@cardiff.ac.uk;
http://www.cf.ac.uk/engin/news/confs/hydroProf. Con Cunnane, Department of Engineering Hydrology, National University of
Ireland, Galway, Ireland
tel.: +353 91 750425; fax: +353 91 524913; conleth.cunnane@nuigalway.ie;
http://www.nuigalway.ie/hydrology/celtic.htm
Cathleen Schimmek, Conference Secretariat ICWRER 2002, Institute ofHydrology and Meteorology, Dresden University of Technology, Wuerzburger
Strasse 46, D-01187 Dresden, Germany
tel.: +49 351 4633931; fax: +49 351 4637162; icwrer2002@mailbox.tu-dresden.de;
http://www.tu-dresden.de/fghhihm/hydrologie.html
Dr Fiona Dyer, School of Resource, Environment and Heritage Sciences,
University of Canberra, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia
tel.: +61 2 62012267; fax: +61 2 62012328; fiona.dyer@canberra.edu.au;
http://lake.canberra.edu.au/~iahs2002
Gerhard Strigel, Bundesanstalt für Gewässerkunde, IHP/OHP Secretariat, PO Box
200253, D-56002 Koblenz, Germany
tel.: +49 261 13065421; fax: +49 261 13065422; strigel@bafg.de;
http://www.bafg.de/html/aktuell
Dr Baosheng Wu, ISFD’2002 Secretary, Department of Hydraulic Engineering,
Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
tel.: +86 10 62772097; fax: +86 10 62772463; baosheng@tsinghua.edu.cn;
http://www.irtces.org/isshhu/2ISFD.htm
Prof. Janusz Kindler, Local Organizing Committee, Faculty of Environmental
Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology, 20 Nowowiejska Street,00-653 Warsaw, Poland
tel.: +48 22 6214560; fax: +48 22 6257377; dziekan@is.pw.edu.pl;
http://www.iche2000.pl
Dr Mohd Nor bin Mohd Desa, HTC Kuala Lumpur, Department of Irrigation andDrainage Malaysia, Km 7, Jalan Ampang, 68000 Ampang, Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia
tel.: +60 3 42552507/502/508/575; fax: +60 3 42561894; htckl@pop.moa.my;
http://htc.moa.my/htc/icuh2002/icuh2000.html
Prof. Gheorghe Cretu, Conference Secretariat, University “Politehnica” Timisoara,
Facultatea de Hidrotehnica, Str. George Enescu nr. 1A, 1900 Timisoara, Romania
tel./fax: +40 56 221481; e-mail:gcr@mail.dnttm.ro; http://www.utt.ro/pfhd

Bridging the Gap between Measurements
and Modelling in Heterogeneous Media:
International Groundwater Symposium

ICCORES Workshop on Ecological,
Sociological and Economic Implications of
Sediment Management
Session HSA4.03: Hydrological andMeteorological Coupling in Mountain Areasat the XXVII General Assembly of theEuropean Geophysical Society

Kovacs Colloquium on ScientificAchievements of IHP-V Projects
ModelCARE 2002: Fourth International
Conference on Calibration and Reliability in
Groundwater Modelling (A few steps closer
to reality)
24th IUGG Conference on Mathematical
Geophysics: Pattern and Form in Earth’s
Dynamics
Second International Conference on New
Trends in Water and Environmental Engineering for Safety and Life: Eco-compatible
Solutions for Aquatic Environments
Fifth International Conference on
Hydroinformatics: Hydroinformatics 2002

The Third Inter-Celtic Colloquium on
Hydrology and Management of Water
Resources: Celtic Water in a European
Framework—Pointing the Way to Quality
Third International Conference on Water
Resources and Environment Research(ICWRER): Water Quantity and Quality
Aspects in Modelling and Management of
Ecosystems
International Symposium on the Structure,
Function and Management Implications ofFluvial Sedimentary Systems
International Symposium on Low-lying
Coastal Areas: Hydrology and Integrated
Coastal Zone Management
Second International Symposium on Flood
Defence: Prospect of Living with Floods inthe 21st Century (ISFD'2002)
ICHE-2002: Fifth International Conference
on Hydro-science and Hydro-engineering

International Conference on Urban
Hydrology for the 21st Century

International Conference on Preventing
and Fighting Hydrological Disasters

IAHS Newsletter 73, November 2001
Dunedin,
New Zealand
2–6 December

Montpellier,France
7–10 April
St Petersburg,
RussiaJune
Sapporo, Japan
30 June–11 July

Davos,
Switzerland
10–12 September
Visakhapatnam,
India
16–18 October

Pat Langhorne, 16th IAHR International Symposium on Ice, Department of
Physics, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealandtel.: +64 3 4797749; fax: +64 3 4790964; nzice@physics.otago.ac.nz;
http://www.physics.otago.ac.nz/~nzice/
2003
Muriel Tapiau, Conference 2003, Laboratoire HydroSciences Montpellier, UMR
5569, BP 5045, F-34032 Montpellier Cedex, France
tel.: +33 4 67149020; fax: +33 4 67149010; montpellier2003@msem.univ-montp2.fr;
http://mpl.ird.fr/montpellier2003
Dr Vadim Kuzmin, Department of Hydrology, Russian State Hydrometeorological
University, Malookhtinski 98, St Petersburg 195196, Russia
tel.: +7 812 4445636 or 5853608; fax: +7 812 4446090; kuzmin@solaris.ru
Secretariat of IUGG2003, IUGG2003 LOC Office, Deep Sea Research
Department, Japan Marine Science and Technology Center (JAMSTEC),
2-15 Natsushima-cho, Yokosuka, Kanagawa 237-0061, Japan
iugg_service@jamstec.go.jp; http://www.jamstec.go.jp/jamstec-e/iugg/htm/frist.htm
Dr Günter Blöschl, Technische Universität Wien, Institut für Hydraulik,
Gewässerkunde und Wasserwirtschaft, Karlsplatz 13/223, A-1040 Vienna, Austria
tel.: +43 1 5880122315; fax: +43 1 5880122399; bloeschl@hydro.tuwien.ac.at;
http://www.jamstec.go.jp/jamstec-e/iugg/htm/frist.htm
Dr Dieter Rickenmann, Swiss Federal Institute WSL, Zürcherstrasse 111,
CH-8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland
tel.: +41 1 7392442; fax: +41 1 7392488; rickenmann@wsl.ch;
http://www.wsl.ch/3rdDFHM
Prof. C. Subbarao, AHI International Seminar, Department of Geophysics, Andhra
University, Visakhapatnam 530003, India
tel.: +91 891 702239/40/41/42; fax: +91 891 755547; chalamks@hotmail.com

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16th IAHR International Symposium on Ice

International Conference on the Hydrology
in the Mediterranean and Semiarid
Regions
International Symposium: Hydrological
Extremes: Theoretical and Applied Aspectsof Forecasting and Computations
XXIII General Assembly of the International
Union of Geodesy and Geophysics with anumber of IAHS symposia and workshops
including:International Symposium on Water
Resources Under Global Change

Third International Conference on DebrisFlow Hazards Mitigation: Mechanics,
Prediction and Assessment
International Seminar on Watershed
Development Special Colloquium on
Drinking Water Supply in SAARCCountries

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International Association of Hydrological Sciences
Officers of IAHS elected for the period 1999–2003
President:
K. TAKEUCHI, Japan (2001–2005)
Past-President:
J. C. RODDA, UK (2001–2003)
Secretary General: P. HUBERT, France
Vice-Presidents: L. GOTTSCHALK, Norway
L. OYEBANDE, Nigeria
C. E. M. TUCCI, Brazil
Editor:Z. W. KUNDZEWICZ, Poland
Treasurer:
C. A. ONSTAD, USA
Honorary President: A. I. JOHNSON, USA
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Contact: Dr JIRKA SIMUNEK, US Salinity Laboratory, USDA,
ARS, 450 W. Big Springs Road, Riverside, California 92507, USA[tel.: +1 909 3694865; fax: +1 909 3424964;
jsimunek@ussl.ars.usda.gov]
International Commission on Tracers (ICT)Contact: Prof. CHRIS LEIBUNDGUT, Institute of Hydrology,
University of Freiburg, Fahnenbergplatz, D -79098 Freiburg, Germany[tel.: +49 761 2033531; fax: +49 761 2033594;
chrisle@uni-freiburg.de; http://www.lgih.ulg.ac.be/ict]

Hydrological Sciences Journal
The Association has produced a scientific journal since
1956—now called Hydrological Sciences Journal. As
well as scientific papers on all aspects of hydrology, theJournal contains announcements on worldwide hydrological activities organized or sponsored by IAHS, book reviews,
and a diary of forthcoming events. August issues sometimes
comprise a collection of papers on a single topic. These
Special Issues are available as separate publications.
Subscriptions: The full annual subscription rate (for six
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International Commission on Groundwater (ICGW)Contact: Dr NORIO TASE, Institute of Geoscience, University ofTsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571, Japan[tel.: +81 298 534244; fax: +81 298 519764;
tase@atm.geo.tsukuba.ac.jp; http://www.envr.tsukuba.ac.jp/~ICGW]International Commission on Continental Erosion (ICCE)
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