International Office for Water
Capacity building for better water management
Our activities
Direct access
The world of water
Our skills
▸ International cooperation
▸ Training the Water professionals
IOWater’s Department of International Cooperation, located at Sophia Antipolis, provides institutional and technical assistance within bilateral or multilateral projects for institutional support to governments, municipalities, agencies and public companies for accompanying administrative reforms in the field of water.
▸ Integrated Water Ressource Management (IWRM)
The International Office for Water has great and internationally-recognized experience in the field of transboundary IWRM and also knows very well the West African context
▸ Governance of public drinking water supply and sanitation utilities
Ensuring the availability of the water resource, preventing floods, preserving aquatic environments, making drinking water and sanitation accessible for everyone are major stakes for our societies.
For such a purpose, it is necessary to create organizations, to build infrastructures, to build and operate plants. But, first of all, it is necessary that the men and women, who have to make decisions, to design, exploit, manage, have the necessary abilities. Capacity building has always been at the core of IOWater activities.
▸ Water Information Systems: organization, design and operation
Access to the information on the status and evolution of the resource and uses is a major stake for water policy: should it be regulatory actions, planning, risk management or public information, the managers of water resources, communities and operators, … regularly need to have reliable, up-dated and relevant information.
▸ Expert reports, studies and strategic assistance
IOWater has many references in Facilitating good governance of water policies, Combining technical and scientific, legal and financial but also prospective skills, and Supporting local policies
▸ Promotion of exchanges between water stakeholders
IOWater is managing and participating in several networks in France, Europe and in the world.
▸ Water management for agriculture
The significance of water for agriculture and thus for feeding the populations has not to be proven anymore, but further still, agricultural water seems one of the major factors for the development of developing economies.
Relying on the French experience, IOWater is thus involved in this area of water resources management.
- Festival International du Film d’Environnement en Île-de- France
- Parution du Rapport de la Commission des comptes et de l’économie de l’environnement Édition 2010
- Les règles sur l’irrigation s’assouplissent
Our events
- 9 Sept. 2010 - Stockholm (SWEDEN)
Improving Water Governance at the River Basin Level (Official seminar - World Water Week) - 22-24 septembre 2010 - Mégève (France)
"EURO-RIOB 2010" et la conférence Internationale - L’Eau en Montagne - "Mégève 2010"
- 9-10 september 2010, Budapest, Hungary
2nd European Conference on Sludge Management - 9 Sept. 2010 - Stockholm (SWEDEN)
Improving Water Governance at the River Basin Level (Official seminar - World Water Week)
