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3rd World Water Forum: March 16-23, 2003
Kyoto, Shiga and Osaka, Japan

 

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Photo: The Opening Plenary of the Ministerial Conference


Ministerial Conference: Opening Plenary
Ryutaro Hashimoto, Chair of the National Steering Committee of the 3rd World Water Forum
Roseline Bachelot-Narquin, French Minister of Ecology and Sustainable Development, and Japanese Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and Chair of the session, Chikage Oogi
A presentation is made by Wang Shucheng, Chinese Minister of Water Resources, and Mikhail Gorbachev, Green Cross International President
UNEP Executive Director Klaus Toepfer addresses the Ministerial Conference
Hilda Grace Coelho, President of the Center for Rural Studies and Development, and Klaus Toepfer, UNEP Executive Director
Koichiro Matsuura, UNESCO Director-General, making his presentation (left)

Ministerial Conference: Sub-Group Meetings
Ronnie Kasrils, South African Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry (center) chaired the session on Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation
Ian Johnson, World Bank (center) chaired the session on Water for Food and Rural Development
Guy Rogers, Water Media Network (left) and Prabha Khoshla, Gender and Water Alliance (right)

Water Resources and Management and Benefit Sharing Chair Chair Arjun Charan Sethi, Indian Minister of Water Resources (right)

Philippe Roch, State Secretary for the Environment, Forests and Landscape, Switzerland, chaired the session on Water Pollution Prevention and Ecosystem Conservation
Hans van Ginkel, UNU, and Delmar Blasco, Secretary General for the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands
Poland during the discussion (left) and Rodoula Zissi, Greek Deputy Minister for Environment, Physical Planning and Public Works

Disaster Mitigation and Risk Management Chair Ir. Soenamo, Minister of Settlements and Regional Infrastructure, Indonesia (right)

Launch of the Water World Development Report: 'Water for People, Water for Life'
Pradeep Aggarwal, UN-Water, chaired the session, which opened with a choir service performed by Kyoto Junior Children's Choir
Left to right: Louise Fresco, FAO, UNEP Executive Director Klaus Toepfer, Koichiro Matsuura, UNESCO Director-General
Gordon Young, World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP)
Richard Jolly, WSSCC

Children's World Water Forum Press Conference
Jafrin Talukder, Canada, Temiday Israel Abdullai, Nigeria (left) and Samah Ali, Egypt, with her interpreter

Homepage of the 3rd World Water Forum

                         
The Agenda

Water Expo


Theme List

The Ministerial Conference

The World Water Council


The UN Works for Freshwater

Official site of the International Year of Freshwater

2nd World Water Forum

1st World Water Forum

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