"Good Water Neighbors" Conference 2013

FoEME's annual "Good Water Neighbors" (GWN) conference, held this year on the occasion of the UN International Year of Water Cooperation, brought together more than 300 Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian political officials, municipal representatives, water experts, local residents and civil society representatives in Herzliya, Israel, on November 13-14, 2013. Against the background of the renewed Israeli / Palestinian peace talks, the conference was designed to highlight the urgency and opportunities for all sides of addressing the unresolved cross-border water and sanitation issues.

Conference panels gave stage to high officials from Israel, the PA and Jordan as well as representatives of the international community. A live video link up between the GWN conference in Tel Aviv and The Hague Institute for Global Justice conference also being held on the occasion of the UN International Year of Water Cooperation in The Hague, Netherlands closed the 2nd day of the conference.

FoEME staff also gave updates on advances made on last year’s selection of concrete cross border projects called ‘Priority Projects’ and following community level participation released a new publication entitled "Community Based Problem Solving on Water Issues - Cross Border Priority Initiatives of the Good Water Neighbors Project" that details a new set of target water and sanitation priority projects.

Click on our website's EVENTS PAGE for this conference: http://foeme.org/www/?module=events&record_id=120  for more information.