Theme 7: National and Regional Working Groups

Objective:
Form PUB national/regional/multi-national working groups and PUB technology transfer

Description:
This Theme provides a vehicle for cohesion between the National, Regional and Multinational Working Groups, encouraging co-ordination between their activities, and helping them to avoid becoming isolated internationally.

It also provides a mechanism by which (M)NWGs will receive guidelines from the SSG, and provides a pathway from an (M)NWG to the SSG for dealing with a wide range of issues, eg the collation of details of country-by-country progress during the PUB Decade.

The Theme also helps to define and maximise the benefit of efforts by the PUB community in countries not currently engaged in national-level PUB science and application.

However, note that it is fully recognised that different countries have different administrative structures and traditions for undertaking and coordinating hydrological and water resources management research, and in many cases, different key PUB issues they may wish to prioritize. Exactly how each country contributes to PUB is, therefore, a matter for that country to decide. Theme 7 has no power to impose changes in the national arrangements for PUB decided upon by a particular country, nor does it wish to impose such changes or be totally prescriptive in such matters.

Theme 7 Leader:
Denis Hughes, Rhodes University, South Africa

Theme 7 Working Groups: