Symposium on Water supply, sanitation and wastewater management, Sri Lanka

Irrefutably, water, health and sanitation are interrelated. Thus access to adequate and quality water supply is essential for better health and sanitation. Urban and industrial development not only competes for the finite water resources but also pollutes the water bodies making them unusable for the competing uses including the environment. To emphasize this issue the UN General Assembly declared the year 2008 the "International Year of Sanitation". Coincidently, water and sanitation (WatSan) has emerged as the number one priority for almost all the local and international NGOs who are working on relief and rehabilitation in Sri Lanka.
Cap-Net Lanka - Capacity building Network in Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), as a country partner of global Cap-Net (www.capnet.org) is mandated to impart new knowledge and disseminate the knowledge generated by the local institutions and individuals in the field of IWRM in Sri Lanka .

With this intention, this is the second national symposium organised by the Cap-Net Lanka within the framework of IWRM. The symposium aims to attract outcomes and lessons of applied researches and community development projects.
Target group: Researchers and practitioners in the field of water supply, sanitation and wastewater management from various sectors (government, non-government and private).