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2nd GWSP Asia Network Workshop
“Global water system hotspots in Asia region: mega cities and dams"

On June 8-11 2006 the second meeting of the GWSP Asia Network took place in Guangzhou, China. The main goals of the workshop were to summarize the existing state of knowledge on current cumulative impacts of mega cities and that of dams in Asia and to set and launch a research agenda for mega cities and dams in Asia in the context of the global water system.

Presentations - Day 1
1	Charles Vörösmarty	Welcoming Remarks
2	Jianyao Chen	Workshop Introduction
3	Frits Penning de Vries	Opportunity for cooperation between MAIRS and GWSP
4	Xia Jun	River eco-problem and rehabilitation approach by water projects management and pollution control: problems & challenges in Huai River Basin
5	Sharad Jain	Cumulative impacts of dams and diversions on hydrologic cycle
6	Marcel Endejan	Identification of important dam-related aspects of the global water system
7	Joesron Loebis	The Effect of Dams Development towards Water Conservation and River Basin Management in Indonesia
8	Ranjith Premalal De Silva	Hydrological Impact Assessment of Large Dams and Associated Land Use Changes - a case study in Upper Mahaweli Catchment, Sri Lanka
9	Qu Jiansheng	Development of International Dam Information System (IDIS): Scheme and Feasibility
10	Petrus Syariman	Effect of Sediment Rate at Saguling Reservoir to its Life Time
11	David Dudgeon	Conservation of Riverine Biodiversity in Asia: The Challenges of Assessing Ecosystem Requirements for Water and Determining Evnrionmental Flow Allocations (e-flows)
12	Jun Magome	Development of geo-referenced global dam and reservoir database for hydrological analysis
13	Nguyen Trung Dzung	Dam Development in Vietnam and their Social and Environmental Impacts
14	Oloth Sengtaheuanghoung	Enhancing Water Quality through Better Land Management of Degraded Highland Regions in Northern Lao PDR
15	Hansa Vathananukij	MODI/TERRA demonstrably encompassed upon reservoir
Presentations - Day 2
1	Changming Liu	Water Resources Problems in the First Half o 21st Century in China: Water Security in Urbanization
2	Makoto Taniguchi	GWSP-Asia Database - Dam, Coastal zone, and Land Cover/Use Changes
3	Renhua Zhang	The quantitative retrieval of transpiration for virescence land in Beijing city using two-layer romote sensing model and TM data
4	Nalin Wikramanayake	Impacts of Dams andWater Transfer Projects on Coastal Systems: Examples from South Asia
5	Jiu Jimmy Jiao	Submarine groundwater, an alternative source of water supply for Hong Kong
6	Ya Wang	Virtual water trade from Guangdong Province to Hong Kong
7	Felino Lansigan	Water Security and the Environment: Challenges to Growing Mega-Cities in Asia
8	Karen Ann Jao-on	Urban Development and its Impact on Subsurface Environment: Focus on Groundwater Situation in Selected Asian Cities
9	Nazim Ali	Climate Change and Water Supply Security in Karachi, Pakistan
10	Jianyao Chen	Urbanization impacts on groundwater quality in the Pearl River Delta
11	Kasdi Subagyono	Soil and water conservation for urban area protection in Indonesia: the role of dams and land management
12	Jingjie Yui	Urbanization impacts on hydrological processes in Beijing
13	Makoto Taniguchi	Interactions between seawater, groundwater and river water in the Yellow River Delta and Bohai Sea
14	K.P. Sudheer	Ground Water Perspective of Chennai. a Coastal City in India
15	Yan Zeng	Changes of Pan Evaporation in the recent years in China