ICOMOS Webinar Series: Cultural heritage solutions for water challenges

The overall aim of the webinar series is to inform water professionals and heritage experts about the Water and Heritage initiative and its activities that aim at recognition by water managers that water related heritage can contribute significantly toward water challenges. The specific objective of the webinars is to encourage national working groups to be initiated with the longer-term objective to mobilize support to have Water and Heritage discussed at the UN International Water conference to be held in New York in 2023, see the Chair’s Statement of the symposium ‘Water and Culture’ held on February 3 in Tokyo.

Speakers and sessions:

• Opening and Welcome: Henk van Schaik (Ambassador, Water & Heritage, ICOMOS Netherlands)
• The International Scientific Committee on Water & Heritage (ISCWH): Ian Travers (ICOMOS Australia; Chair, ISCWH Task Force)
• The World Water Forum: Sergio Riberio, CIRAT
• Examples of water-related heritage for water management challenges of today and tomorrow: Sunite Yu, TIIWE, Taiwan
• Significance of the ancient Spate Irrigation systems for contemporary water challenges:  Karim Nawaz, MetaMeta
• Water Heritage Management as Asset Management: Maarten Ouboter, WaterNet Amsterdam
• UNESCO’s Historic Urban Landscape Methodology as applied in India:  Nupur Prothi Khanna (ICOMOS India)
• Hydrobiography: Hans Bleumink
• The concept of ‘Drinkable Rivers’: Li An Phoa, Drinkable Rivers
• Discussion: Cases and Methodologies
• Conclusions and Next Steps

How to Attend:

• The webinar will be organised using Zoom. Register here to get the Zoom link . Deadline for registration: November 16, 2020.