Applying WEAP as a Decision Support System (DSS) for IWRM
25 - 27 May 2009
Damascus, Syria

organized by
The Arab Center for the Studies of
Arid Zones and Dry Lands (ACSAD)
and
German Federal Institute for
Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR)

and sponsored by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, UNEP, UNESCO, and the Stockholm Environment Institute.

Workshop topics will include WEAP applications in the field of:


Water Planning

Transboundary Water Policy

Climate Change Studies

Socio-economic Applications

River Ecosystem

Water Utilities

Water Rights Administration

Water Quality

Safe Yield Analysis

Multi Criteria Decision Analysis/Optimization Modeling

Watershed Management

Groundwater Recharge Modeling

Irrigation Demand and Supply Modeling

Groundwater Flow Model Integration (WEAP-MODFLOW-coupling)

Reservoir Management

The deadline to submit papers is April 1, 2009.

The conference itself will be free of charge. For presenters of accepted papers, travel and accommodation expenses can be
refunded by the organizers.

For more information, please see the conference brochure and application form:
http://www.weap21.org/downloads/ConferenceDamascus_brochure_application.pdf

or Contact:
ACSAD: Dr. Abdallah Droubi, water_dep@acsad.org, Tel. 00963-11-5743039
BGR: Johannes Wolfer j.wolfer@bgr.de

Best regards,

Jack