ISSN 0912-7402

No.67 : March 2020

– Save Water, Save Lakes –The 18th World Lake Conference
Governance, Resilience and Sustainability ofLakes for a Better Society

The theme of the 18th World Lakes Conference is “Governance,
Resilience and Sustainability of Lakes for a Better Society.” What is
the implied message of this comprehensive theme?
The conference site, Guanajuato City, is the capital of GuanajuatoState in central Mexico. The city, located at the elevation of 2000m
in the valley of surrounding mountains with their peaks as high as
2500m, grew as a silver mining town through the period of Spanish
rule, i.e., from the mid-16th to the early-20th Century. With aresident population of some 70,000 today, the city is famous for thecolorfully painted houses and small shops along the crisscrossing
streets and around the town plazas, majestically accentuated bycolonial architectures such as churches, schools and museums.
There used to be the old Guanajuato River, flowing underneath thecity. A diversion dam constructed upstream in the 1960s has
successfully eliminated the frequent flooding in the downtown area,leaving the dried-up underground channels that were transformed
into the underground roads connecting various parts of this densely
packed city. Together with the remains of abandoned but preserved
old mining tunnels some 2km in the north, this intriguingly

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picturesque land was designated in 1988 as a UNESCO World
Heritage Site, drawing a large number of tourists from around theworld. The groundwater aquifers underneath the surrounding
mountain foothills provide for most of the city’s water needs. Thereis no lake to speak of in the immediate surrounding of Guanajuato
City itself, but there is a series of natural and artificial lakes along
the Lerma River crossing from east to west in the southern region of
Guanajuato State.
The lakes in Mexico may be categorized into four geographicalclusters respectively reflecting their associated national andanthropogenic features, as illustrated in the upper frame of Figure 1.
In the north, there lies the Mexican Plateau land formed by two
mountain ranges, the Sierra Madre Occidental in the west and theSierra Madre Oriental in the east. The two mountain ranges and theplateau land in-between constitute part of the North American
Tectonic Plate. This region accommodates the first cluster of lakes(a) in the form of endorheic dry land depressions in the plateau
region, and many crater and maar formations in both the plateau
land region and the volcanic mountain regions. Some are filled■ The 18th World Lake Conference:■ JICA Green Growth Promotion Project in Halong Bay
Governance, Resilience and Sustainability of Lakes for a Better Society
Area, Vietnam■ LAKES OF MEXICO: A MIRROR TO BE POLISHED■ The 13th Term Scientific Committee Comes on Board■ JICA-ILEC Follow-up Program (East Africa)■ Board Members Reorganized■ Letter from Scientific Committee (Estonia)■ JICA-ILEC Follow-up Program (India)■ International Workshop of “LAKES” Knowledge Base

■ Our Activities Overview（FY2019）■ “WLC18 Call for your Participation”

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temporarily and intermittently as lakes only during the wet
seasons, while others are invisibly connected to theirrespective underlying aquifer formations.
The second cluster of lakes (b) lies in the flatlanda）formation south of the Mexican Volcanic Belt Region sloped
gently from west to east, of which the southern part ofGuanajuato State is also a part. An exemplary case is theflatland where a string of shallow lakes and reservoirs arelocated from the central mountain region westward along theLerma River toward Lake Chapala, the largest lakes inb）Sierra Nevadac）Mexico. The outflowing water from Lake Chapala meet withd）
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Figure 1. The third cluster of lakes (c) lies in the Mexican©OpenStreetMap contributors
Volcanic Belt Region where there are many high-altitude
volcanic lakes and maar lakes, as well as some tectonic andMajor Dams
Lerma River
impounded lakes. In the western end of the Volcanic Belt
Santiago River
Lerma-Chapala BasinRegion lie also some lakes connected with aquifer
Santiago River Basin
formations. The fourth cluster of lakes (d) lies in thesouthern bend region of the Gulf of Mexico, as well as in the
Yucatan Peninsula region, where there are large coastal
GUANAJUATO
lagoons and associated wetland lake systems of various sizes
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and depths, together with natural springs and small
groundwater-fed lakes formed as depression holes in the
JALISCOLake Chapalainland limestone structure (Cenotes).
Solis Dam
Of these categories, the lakes in cluster region (b) along
Mexico City
the Lerma Rive are the important sources of agricultural,industrial and urban waters in the State of Guanajuato and its©OpenStreetMap contributors
neighboring states of Michoacán and Jalisco. Lake Yuriria Figure-1 Geography of Lake Clusters in Mexico
located within the State of Guanajuato, for example, plays an
The Aztec civilization, once flourished thanks to territorial
important role for regulating the use of Lerma River water, together
expansions by reclamation of Lake Tesco, was taken over by thewith such lakes as Cuitzeo and Pátzcuaro, as well as the Solis
succeeding periods of Spanish rule. The current Mexico City has
Reservoir in the State of Michoacán. Because of the inflowing
been developed on this phantom lake.
irrigation return flows and sediments from around the lakes, Lake
Similarly, the Mayan civilization that flourished in the Yucatan
Yuriria suffers from severe eutrophication and the resultant massive
Peninsula region disappeared because of the collapse of agriculture
growth of water hyacinth occupying the entire shoreline all the way
due to droughts and to the lack of water management skills. Further,
into the central part of the lake. Lake Chapala, on the other hand,
the high-altitude volcanic lakes, dry-land endorheic lakes andsatisfies some sixty percent of the water needs of Guadalajara City,
Cenotes reminds us of the evolutionary time span far beyond thethe second largest city in Mexico. The wastewaters from this city,
human civilization.
not adequately treated, are discharged to Santiago River which
The upcoming Guanajuato World lake Conference is going to beeventually flows into the Pacific Ocean after passing through several
the first to be held in Central America and will be the second, afterdams along the way. In addition, immediately east of the headwater
the Lácar, Argentina, held in 1995. In these regions, there are lake
region of Lerma River within the lake cluster (c) is an aquifer region
clusters of similar nature as those four introduced above, together
from which almost entire amount of Mexico City water is suppliedwith other lake typologies such as the Pantanal Wetlands and thevia huge pumping facilities and pipeline tunnels. In all, integrated
Glacier lakes in Patagonia. The conference theme, “Governance,
management of groundwater aquifers, rivers and lakes in the
Resilience and Sustainability of Lakes for a Better Society," will
Lerma-Chapala-Santiago basin and its surrounding regions has been
surely guide us to better understand the intricacy of lake basin
and will continue to be a dictating issue facing the whole of Mexico.
management in these regions, and also provide us with a very usefulGeo-historically and ecologically, Mexico’s geographical andframework for endeavoring toward mainstreaming lakes and otherclimatic diversity has supported the water system functions tolentic waters in the global water agenda.
provide for diverse biological habitats. Such diverse habitats have
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1. Figure 1. Map of study area: Jonatan Godinez-Madrigal, Nora Van Cauwenbergh, Pieter van der Zaag (2019), Production of competing water knowledge in the face of water crises:
Revisiting the IWRM success story of the Lerma-Chapala Basin, Mexico, Geoforum, Article Download PDF View Google Scholar 103 (7) (2019), pp. 3-15
2. Figure 1. Location of the Lerma-Chapala-Santiago watershed in Mexico: Luis Ricardo Manzano-Solís, Miguel A. Gómez-Albores, Carlos Díaz-Delgado, Carlos Alberto Mastachi-Loza,

Raymundo Ordoñez-Sierra, Khalidou M. Bâ , and Roberto Franco-Plata, Identiﬁcation of Variations in the Climatic Conditions of the Lerma-Chapala-Santiago Watershed by Comparative
Analysis of Time Series, Advances in Meteorology, Volume 2018 ¦Article ID 1098942 ¦ 16 pages ¦ https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/1098942, Research Article ¦ Open Access2

LAKES OF MEXICO:A MIRROR TO BE POLISHED
Alejandro Juarez Aguilar
Director General, Corazón de la Tierra(Heart of the Earth)

The lakes of Mexico have great diversity, ranging from somereally young (from a geological point of view) to others clasified
as “Ancient Lakes” as Lake Chapala (the largest one in the
country, with an age of 6.8 million years). Also, their shapes,
structures, basin features, residence times and major uses arequite diverse. With more than 100 well-known lakes and close of
a thousand of lesser recognition (either from natural or artificial
origin) they fulfill important roles on a daily basis, providing
ecosystem services as evident as water provision for irrigation,industrial uses, ranching and human consumption; also fisheries,
reeds, tourism and recreation activities. Besides, mostly
unnoticed by most of people, they play significant roles on
climate regulation, flood control, biodiversity reservoirs, carbon
sequestration processes and other valuable roles.
The Lerma-Chapala-Santiago basin, with more than 120
thousand square kilometers (a territory larger than Austria or
Portugal) encomprises Lakes Yuriria, Cuitzeo, Patzcuaro,
Zirahuen and Chapala, among others. This watershed and thewater bodies it engulfs are a perfect example of the situation ofbasin management in Mexico: all aforementioned lakes havebeautiful landscapes, complex biodiversities (strong on
endemisms) and provide livelihood for millions of people,
generating a large number of goods and benefits. Yet, all of them
are under medium-severe stress levels, coming from wastewater,
non-point pollution, nitrogen and phosporus run-off, siltation,water diversion, encroachement, introduction of non-native fishes
and other stress sources. As a result, several manifestations arise,
which risk functions or the whole ecosystem: eutrophication,
floating plants infestation, native fish especies vanishing, water
quality reduction, risks to human health, etc.

At the same time, an increasing number of institutions andstakeholders are working to improve such circumstances,amending regulations, reducing pollution sources, improving
productive systems and promoting governance strenghtening. Bit
by bit, lake by lake, and basin by basin, they have been creating awave of successful cases, learned lessons and better practices thathave allowed in the recent years to accelerate the exchange ofexperiences and methods. The national policies which have been
regarding rivers as channels and lakes as water deposits, insteadof complex and rich ecoystems, completely entwined with theirbasins, have gradually been changed in the right direction. The
Integrated Lake Basin Management (ILBM) Platform has beenreaching adepts from its first use in Lake Chapala, back to 2007,
to be more widely accepted in other Mexican lakes.
In this interesting context, Mexico will hold the 18th World
Lake Conference (in November 2020), an opportunity to sharewith experts from around the globe for the better management of
the world lakes. Welcome all!

Lake Chapala3

Letter from Scientiﬁc Committee (Estonia)

Centre for Limnology at Lake Võrtsjärv,
the Cradle of Estonian Lake Research
Tiina Nõges

Professor of Hydrobiology,
Estonian University of Life Science

Estonia has nearly 2,000 lakes that form 4.9% of its land
cover, making it the 4th richest country in regard to lakes inand generally smaller-sizedgrazer communities has raised the question of the ability ofEurope. The Centre for Limnology (CL; founded in 1961) at the
Chair of Hydrobiology and Fishery, Estonian University of Life
Sciences (EMU), is the leading institution studying thezooplankton to control harmful blooms. Our recent studies
showed that cyanobacteria formed a significant component ofalgae ingested by Cladocerans, and that potentially toxic strains

ecological processes in Estonian lakes.
CL is situated on the shore of Lake Võrtsjärv (EUR-47 in
ILEC World Lake Database), one of the most intensively

also were ingested (Agasild et al. 2019).
Estonian lakes experienced heavy nutrient loadings in the
1970s-80s, and a rapid decline in the early 1990s, after the

long-term studied lakes in Europe. Võrtsjärv is a large, shallow
lake (270km2; mean depth 2.8m) with a remarkableclimate-induced variability in hydrology and water chemistry.
Together with the interconnected Lake Peipsi (Peipus,
EUR-207), the two lakes provide a perfect model environment
to study the impacts of climate change on shallow lakeecosystems.
Over its more than 60-year existence, CL has become theleading center of competence in Estonia for water protection,
research and management. CL operates Bachelor and Masterlevel curricula in Applied Biology of Aquatic and Terrestrial
Ecosystems and PhD curricula in Environmental Science andApplied Biology. It has been and is active in the international
networks (GLEON, NETLAKE) and projects of EU Framework
Programs (ECOFRAME, MANTRA-East, CLIME, WISER,

collapse of the former Soviet style of extensive agriculture. As
the catchment N loading decreased faster than the P loading, theN/P ratio decreased, favoring the growth of blue green algae(cyanobacteria), resulting in the re-emergence of water blooms
in some lakes, causing summer fish kills. Our studies suggest
the decadal rise of blue-green algae in shallow lakes lies in theinteraction between cultural eutrophication and global warming,collectively resulting in the physical and chemical conditions in
the lakes being more optimal for cyanobacterial growths(Cremona et al. 2018). Moreover, as a result of decreasing windspeed (wind stilling) near the lake surface over the Northern
Hemisphere, wind-induced water movement at the bottom of thelarge, shallow Võrtsjärv has decreased by 47% since 1996,
reducing lake bottom sediment nutrient releases and increasing
the phytoplankton biomass despite reduced nutrient levels. Our

REFRESH, MARS, MANTEL), INTERREG and European
Fisheries Fund. Covering a wide range of lake research issues,
it has primarily studied food web functioning in shallow lakeecosystems, with a special focus on the origin and importance ofrecent study (Janatian et al. 2019) showed how the declining
amount of suspended sediments resulted in an enhanced light
penetration (opening of a light niche) into the water column,
which was capitalized and filled by the light-limited

different carbon sources in supporting aquatic food webs. It also
has strong competence in studies on fish larval feeding, carbon

phytoplankton community, suggesting wind stilling is anotherglobal factor, complementary to climate warming, thatpathways and food web interactions using stable isotopes, andplankton communities based on advanced DNA methodologies.
The coexistence of potentially toxic bloom-forming cyanobacteria

counteracts eutrophication mitigation in lakes.

Centre for Limnology at Lake Võrtsjärv

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Lake Võrtsjärv

JICA-ILEC Follow-up Program (East Africa)
From Nov.30 to Dec.8 three ILEC members undertook a

The one-day field trip to the Nyanza Gulf regions provided

post-course assessment of selected African participants in thean opportunity to exchange ideas with the fishing village

previous JICA-ILEC training course programs, with regard toresidents. The program led participants to establish new

their professional development to date, giving advice for their

networks for enhancement of their professional development.

present issues, and sharing new knowledge, among others.

The success in implementation of this program hopefully will

Eight participants from Kenya, Uganda and Zimbabwe

lead to the renewed commitment by the participants in

together with several local resource persons participated inadvancing ILBM for sustainable use and conservation of lake

the three-day program that included a field trip. The

basin resources in Africa.

participants presented the status of implementation of their
ILBM action plans in their respective countries. They werealso introduced to the I LBM promotion activities in Kenya
and also to the ESSVA (Ecosystem Service Shared Value
Assessment) methodology.

JICA-ILEC Follow-up Program (India)
With support from the Wetland International, South India,

organizers arranged for a technical seminar on the

ILEC undertook a Follow-up Program of JICA-ILEC ILBM

involvement of private sector in lake basin management as

training for selected past Indian participants during thewell as other water management challenges faced in South

period, 9-11 December in New Delhi, India. It was also

Asia. The presentations by three Japanese firms specializing

participated by other invited and willing participants fromin environmental instrumentation and engineering wereJapan, India and Nepal, taking advantage of the opportunity

attended by the participants in the above Follow-up Program

to share their respective past and ongoing ILBM activities.

as well as representatives from the local experts. In all, thisThe program featured the post-training experiences reported

rate opportunity culminated out of the Follow-up Programby the Superintending Engineer of the Gujarat State and thosearrangement coordinated by JICA, ILEC, WISA, CDA andreported by the officials of Lake Chilika Authority (CDA),

other Indian and South Asian institutions and experts turned

the former reporting the importance of infusing the ILBM

out to be a rare opportunity for the transfusion of experiences

approach in a wide range of water resources managementby the respective organizations, collectively contributing toprojects and programs and the latter reported the ILBM

the respectively pursued programs, not to mention to thesuccess at Lake Chilika as well as other similar projects

future of JICA-ILEC ILBM training in the region.

implemented by the State of Odisha. In addition, theInternational Workshop of “LAKES” Knowledge Base
“LAKES” (Learning Acceleration and Knowledge

August. To the satellite session participants, a brief

Enhancement System) is a general-purpose multilingual

introduction to the LAKES system was presented by ILEC

knowledge-mining and knowledgebase system which wasand some application examples and future application plansdeveloped as part of the ILEC-Shiga University collaboration

were presented by the SEALNet member institutions fromresearch on ILBM. The prototype system developed in earlyIndonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines. The LAKES system

2010s has been continuously refined over the past years

has been introduced and is planned to be introduced throughthrough a series of consultative workshops held mainly inconsultative workshops in other regions of the world

Southeast Asia. In February 2019, a regional workshop was

including West Africa and Latin America. It is also being

held in Kusatsu, Japan, for a network of tropical limnology

used as a data-mining

research institutions named the Southeast Asian Limnologicals y s t e m f o r I L E C ’s

Network (SEALNet). The workshop outputs wereWorld Lake Databasesubsequently refined and synthesized for presentation at awhich is currently

satellite session in the International Conference on Tropicalundergoing redesigning

Limnology (TROPLIMNO 2019) held in Bogor, Indonesia infor that purpose.
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JICA Green Growth Promotion Project in Halong Bay Area, Vietnam
Halong Bay in Quang Ninhmeasures to reduce direct load on Halong Bay, and (5) issuing a

Province, northeastern Vietnam,

Green Growth White Book were implemented, and related

is a scenic spot registered as a

institutional measures were taken. In 2017, Shiga Prefecture andWorld Natural Heritage Site, but

Quang Ninh Province concluded a Memorandum of

in recent years the water

Understanding on Mutual Cooperation in the Environmental andenvironment has deteriorated due

Economic Sectors, and the exchange will continue in the future.

to industrial activities and development. To solve this problem,

Project Area

Quang Ninh Province worked on a project to promote green
growth through environmentally sustainable policies in key
industrial sectors in the Halong Bay region and development
policies in the tourism sector, using Lake Biwa as a model. ILEC
was jointly commissioned from the detailed planning stage to theimplementation stage of this project (2015-2019), and the project
was successfully completed with the full cooperation of Shiga
Prefecture, including advisory mission and training in Japan.
At the implementation stage of the project, pilot activities for(1) construction of financial mechanism, (2) energy conservationand management measures, (3) sustainable tourism measures, (4)The 13th Term Scientific Committee Comes on Board
The members of ILEC Scientific Committee are renowned

M a s a t s u g u Ta k a m a t s u f r o m J a p a n , s p e c i a l i z i n g i nscientists and managerial experts with depth of experience ininternational financial instruments. The outgoing members

the field of lake basin management, providing their expertiseafter 12 years of distinguished service include Prof. Tsugihiro

and playing the regional focal point role for all of ILEC

Watanabe from Japan, a renowned irrigation water

activities. The Committee has entered its 13th term in April

management specialist, and Mr. Juan Skinner from2019, with newly elected members as Mr. Alejandro Juarez

Guatemala, an avid promotor of indigenous peoples’

from Mexico specialize in participatory lake basin

involvement in ILBM. The members of ILEC Secretariat

management, Prof. Tiina Nõges from Estonia specializing inwould like to express heartful appreciation by joining thoseecological science for lake basin management, and Dr.

having benefitted greatly from their dedication and wisdom.

The ILEC Scientific Committee 13th Term Members (April 2019 〜 March 2022)
Name

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Nationality

Affiliation

Walter Rast
（Chair）

USA

Professor Emeritus and Director, International Watershed Studies, The Meadows Center for Water and theEnvironment, Texas State University

Adelina Santos-Borja(Vice Chair)

Philippines

Department Manager III,
Development Authority

Salif Diop
(Vice Chair)

SenegalProfessor, Member, Academy of Sciences and Techniques of Senegal

Sandra Azevedo(Bureau Member)

BrazilProfessor, Carlos Chagas Filho Biophysics Institute, Brazil Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Daniel Olago(Bureau Member)

Kenya

Professor, Institute for Climate Change and Adaptation & Department of Geology, University of Nairobi

Resource Management and Development Department, Laguna Lake

Ajit Kumar Pattnaik

India

Vice President, Wetlands International South Asia

Zhengyu Hu

China

Deputy Director, The Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Yoshihisa Shimizu

Japan

Professor, Research Center for Environmental Quality Management, Graduate School of Engineering,
Kyoto University

Colin Maxwell Finlayson

Australia

Professor, Director, The Institute for Land,Water and Society, Charles Sturt University

Pieter van der Zaag

Netherlands

Professor, Water Resources Management
IHE Delft Institute for Water Education

Alejandro Juarez Aguilar

MexicoDirector General, Corazón de la Tierra (Heart of the Earth)

Tiina Nõges

Estonia

Professor of Hydrobiology, Chair of Hydrobiology and Fishery, Institute of Agricultural and Environmental
Science, Estonian University of Life Sciences

Masatsugu Takamatsu

Japan

Disaster Risk Management Specialist, World Bank

Our Activities Overview（FY2019）●May

19- Participation in the Ha Long Bay Project for Green Growth(Quang Ninh Province, -June 1)
21 Attendance at UNEP Forum 2019 as observer (Shibuya)
30 Receipt of a donation from Kansai Mirai Bank, Limited (Otsu)【PIC❶】

●June
●July

18 Receipt of a donation from Kinki Rokin Bank (Osaka)
21-30 WLC18 Preparatory Meeting (Guanajuato, Lake Chapala, Guadalajara)【PIC❷】●AugustPIC ❶20- JICA commissioned training program, “Integrated Lake, River and Coastal BasinManagement (ILLBM) for Sustainable Use and Preservation of Water Resources” kicks
off (Kusatsu, -Oct.17)【PIC❸】
25-31 Booth presentation and Holding joint Event with Shiga Pref. at World Water Week
(Stockholm)
28-29 Attendance at TICAD-7 (Yokohama)

PIC ❷28-30 Participation in International Conference on Tropical Limnology (TROPLIMNO) 2019
(Bogor)●September

13 Exchange Session with JICA ILLBM training participants and high school students(Moriyama)【PIC❹】●October

1 Technical Seminar with Japanese companies and JICA training participants (Kusatsu)
16-18 Exhibition at Biwako Environmental Business Exhibition (Nagahama)【PIC❺】

PIC ❸29-31 Participation in the 1st Latin American/ 5th Mexican National Watershed Management
Congress (Mexico City)
29- Participation in the Ha Long Bay Project for Green Growth(Quang Ninh Province, -Nov.9)●November

16 Regional Understanding Program “Lessons from the Lake Biwa Developments” (Kusatsu)

PIC ❹17 Holding Metagawa River Nature School co-hosted by Kinki Rokin Bank (Moriyama)30- JICA Follow-up Session for ILBM Training Course in KENYA (Kisumu, -Dec.7)●December 8-12 JICA Follow-up Session for ILBM Training Course in INDIA (New Delhi)
11 Technical Seminar in India with Japanese Companies (Mesuring Technology, Chemical
Materials, Water treatment Equipments) (New Delhi)

PIC ❺

2020
●January 19-29 Training Course of Lake Conservation for officers of Indonesian Ministry of Environment
and Forestry (Otsu)【PIC❻】●February 12-14 ILEC Scientific Committee Bureau Meeting (Kusatsu)
20 The first Japanese Committee Meeting for the 18th World Lake Conference (Otsu)

PIC ❻Board Members Reorganized● Replacement of Trustees
As of April 1, 2019, Mr. Yasuhisa Ishikawa (Director General, Department of Lake Biwa and the Environment, Shiga
Prefectural Government) was appointed as a new Trustee to succeed Mr. Masaki Hirowaki.

● Board of Directors: The 4th Phase (Since June 11, 2019)
President

Kazuhiko Takemoto

President, Overseas Environment Cooperation Center, Japan; Former Vice-Minister for Global Environment,
Ministry of the Environment

VicePresident

Masahisa Nakamura

Professor, Research Center for Sustainability and Environment, Shiga University

Kaori Kubo

Director

Professor, Faculty of Education, Shiga University

Yoshihisa Shimizu

Professor, Research Center for Environmental Quality Management, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto
University

Keiichi Takahashi

Director General, Lake Biwa Museum

Kenzo Hiroki

Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies;
Former Vice-principal for College of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism

Nobuhiko Miwa

Senior Technical Director, Department of Lake Biwa and the Environment, Shiga Prefectural Government

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WLC18 Call for your Participation
Abstract Submission and Registration for the 18th World Lake Conference is announced.
For more information, please visit the official website of WLC18 at
http://w w w.worldlakeconference.ugto.mx /en/●Date: November 9-14, 2020
●Venue: Centro de Convenciones●Host Organizations: University of Guanajuato･ILEC●Theme: “Governance, Resilience and Sustainability of Lakes for a Better Society”●Important Dates:★Abstract Submission Opens: February 3 2020.
★General Registration Opens: June 29 2020.
★Abstract Submission Deadline: June 29 2020 (24 hrs. GMT-6).
★Abstract Acceptance Notifications: all acceptance notifications will be sent by
August 1 2020.
We are looking forward to your participation!

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