Monday June 1^st schedule

• 9 h 30 to 10 h 30
• 11 h 00 to 12 h 00
• 13 h 30 to 15 h 00
• 15 h 30 to 17 h 30

9 h 30 to 10 h 30 :

Maurice O'Bready : Word of Welcome

• Minister Line Beauchamp Honorary President of the Forum, Minister of Sustainable Development, Environment and Parks, Quebec, Canada
• Mrs. Nicole St-Martin, Oxfam-Quebec Former President

11 h 00 to 12 h 00

Maurice O'Bready : Integrated water resource management: fundamentals and progress

• Mr Jean-François Donzier President of the International network of basin organizations (INBO)
• Mr André Beauchamp, President of the Water management commission of Quebec (1998-2000)

13 h 30 to 15 h 00 : 5 workshop in simultaneous

• Characterisation & diagnosis tools: Control program for water quality
• Planning and governance tools: Water governance models
• Information and joint-action tools : Involving communities in IWRM
• Water management tools in agricultural settings : Partnership and joint action in the agricultural setting
• Intervention tools for major water-related issues : Actions to prevent proliferation of cyanobacteria

Small agora: Characterisation & diagnosis tools
Title of workshop: Control program for water quality

• Stream’s diagnosis for a better forecast (fr.)
  Paul Beaudoin, CHARMES, Canada
• The 2007 National Lakes Assessment – A Collaborative Evaluation of the Quality of Lakes across the United States
  Neil Kamman, United States Environmental Protection Agency, USA
• The challenges of water quality monitoring : context, practice and perspectives (fr.) Estelle Baurès, École des Hautes Etudes en Santé Publique (EHESP), Laboratoire d'Etude et de Recherche en Environnement et Santé (LERES), France

Maurice O'Bready: Planning and governance tools
Title of workshop: Water governance models

• Watershed management : governing by concensus of by law? (fr.)
  Jean-Maurice Latulippe, Ecotransition, Quebec, Canada
• Developing a First Nation Intergrated Watershed Management Tool: lessons learned to date
  Merrell-Ann Phare and Lisa Hardess Center for Indigenous Environmental resources (CIER), Manitoba, Canada
• The experience of developing a water and territory governance model in Brazil: the TSGA project (fr.)
  Daniel Jose Da Silva, Universidade federal de Santa-Catarina, Brésil

Agora STI : Information and joint-action tools
Title of workshop: Involving communities I

• The Quebec Volunteer Lake Monitoring Network : A program Assessment (fr.)
  Manon Ouellette, MDDEP, Canada
• The watershed diagnosis: Starting point to a successful approach (fr.)
  Dominic Poirier, coordinator, RAPPEL, Canada
• The Millenium development goals and the sustainable management of Rivers
  Tyhra Carolyn Kumasi, University of sciences and technology, Ghana

Bellevue Balcony : Water management tools in agricultural settings
Title of workshop: Partnership and joint action in the agricultural setting

• Partnership between New Brunswick and Quebec as part of the "diagnosis of erosion in two watersheds situated in Quebec and New Brunswick and technique of transfer of expertise to accelerate the adoption of the River Basin Management Plan (fr.)
  Caroline Bisson, UPA St-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada and Jean-Louis Daigle, Centre de conservation des sols et de l’eau de l’est du Canada, New-Brunswick, Canada
• Agri-environmental advisory clubs (AEAC) : a proven approach in Quebec for improving agri-environmental farming practices (Fr.)Chantal Foulds, Conseillor in organizational development, Clubs-conseils en environnement Coordination team, Canada
• The Concerted Action Plan in agro-environment and harmonious cohabiting 2007-2010: actions undertaken by the Quebec agricultural sector (fr.)
  Sylvain Tremblay, Ministry of Agriculture, Pêcheries and Alimentation, Quebec, Canada

Balcony Orford : Intervention tools for major water-related issues
Title of workshop: actions to prevent proliferation of cyanobacteria

• Pilot projects of restoration of lakes (Intervention plans on blue-green algae) (fr.)
  Lise Boudreau, MDDEP, Canada
• The validation and use of an in vivo fluoroprobe for the rapid detection of harmful cyanobacteria in natural waters
  Arash Zamyadi, Université de Montréal, Canada and Natasha McQuaid, École Polytechnique, Canada
• Cyanobacteria and cyanotoxin monitoring program on 25 lakes (fr.)
  José Audet-Lecouffe, BlueLeaf, Canada

15 h 30 to 17 h 30 : 5 simultaneous worshops

• Characterisation & diagnosis tools: Eastern Canadian Diatom Index
• Governance and planning tools: Planning IWRM
• Information and joint-action tools: Involving communities II
• Water management tools in agricultural settings: Hydrological modelling approaches in agricultural settings
• Intervention tools for major water-related issues : Ground water protection

Small agora : Characterisation & diagnosis tools
Title of workshop: Eastern Canadian Diatom Index

• Monitoring water quality of rivers with the Eastern Canadian Diatom Index (fr.)
  Stéphane Campeau, UQTR, Canada
• Environmental stream monitoring : Mixed approach, the Rivière-du-loup watershed case (fr.)
  Yann Boissonneault, Organisme de bassin versant de la Rivière-du-loup, Canada
• Predicting the effect of best management practices on biological integrity in a small agricultural watershed (rivière Beaurivage): an application of the Eastern Canadian diatom index (IDEC) and of The GIBSI watershed modeling system (fr.)
  Martine Grenier, INRS-ETE, Canada

Maurice O'Bready: Planning and governance tools
Title of workshop: Planning IWRM

• Water : A Central Issue for Urban Planning in Singapore (fr.)
  Julie Drolet, Université de Montréal, Canada
• Water Management of a Lake Catchment Area: Sustainable Development Challenges and Opportunities (fr.)
  Sylvain Arsenault, Genivar, Canada
• The state of water management in Brazil: diagnosis of a reality in motion (fr.)
  Oscar Cordeiro, Université de Brasilia, Brazil

Maurice O'Bready: Planning and governance tools
Title of workshop: Planning IWRM

Agora STI : Information and joint-action tools
Title of workshop: Involving communities II

• The Blue Book: a communication tool (fr.)
  Jean-Bosco Bazié, International Secretariat for Water, Burkina Faso
• Implementing community-based Social marketing program to improve well Stewardship and Groundwater protection: The Well Aware exemple
  Marisha Lamond, Green communities Canada, Ontario, Canada
• Can We Institutionalize Cooperation? (fr.)
  Nicolas Milot, Chaire d'étude sur les écosystèmes urbains (UQAM), Quebec, Canada

Balcony Bellevue : Water management tools in agricultural settings
Title of workshop: Hydrological modelling approaches in agricultural settings

• Development of the GIBSI integrated modelling framework (economic-hydrologic) and the Evaluation of Beneficial Management Practices (BMPs) at the Bras d’Henri and Beaurivage Watersheds, Quebec (fr.)
  Alain N Rousseau, INRS-ETE, Quebec, Canada
• Evaluation of the impact of the agricultural management practices on river water quality with SWAT (fr.)
  Santatra Rasolomanana, University Laval, Quebec, Canada

Balcony Orford : Intervention tools for major water-related issues
Title of workshop: Ground water protection

• Subsurface barrier to augment ground water reserve
  Lakshmanan Elango, Anna University et VP - IAHS International Commission on Water Quality, India
• Groundwater in Abitibi-Temiscamingue : a territorial consensus approach (fr.)
  Geneviève Godbout and Serge Bastien, Société de l'eau souterraine Abitibi Témiscamingue, Quebec, Canada