MU/SCWE Participates Groundwater
Conference in Cairo

The one-week conference was on Groundwater Governance and Management in the Arid and Semi-Arid Climates held in Cairo, Egypt between 2-8 April 2005. It was a knowledge sharing and capacity building workshop in the integrated water resources management. It provided the participants the opportunities to share a case-history and country practices-based knowledge and exchange of experiences from those countries and regions they represented. The conference was organized by the World Metrological Organization (WMO), The International Agency for Atomic Energy (IAEA) and others. The Egyptian Minister for Water & Irrigation, Mr. Mohamoud Abu Zeid, whose ministry hosted the conference in Cairo, gave a worm welcome to the participants.
The Somali Center for Water and Environment (SCWE) is a non-profit Somali institution that focuses its efforts on water and environmental issues in Somalia. It is based in Sweden and developed close research link and working collaboration with Mogadishu University (MU) in Somalia. The SCWE program coordinator, Hussein M. Iman attended that conference.
The conference provided a platform for opening a dialogue for groundwater management to provide a practical pathway for addressing the recurrent chronic problems, optimize and reconsider the iwrm approaches for groundwater in the arid and semi-arid settings.
Over 70 expert participants attended this conference invited from over 50 countries with arid and semi-arid climate settings where groundwater is a critical resource. The participants were from their country ministries for water, leading research institutes, NGOs, IGOs and private sector elements working in Groundwater and iwrm.