Tuesday June 2^nd schedule

• 8 h 30 to 10 h 00
• 10 h 30 to 12 h 00
• 13 h 30 to 15 h 30

8 h 30 to 10 h 00 : 5 simultaneous workshops

• Characterisation & diagnosis tools: Modeling tools
• Planning and governance tools: Evaluating IWRM
• Information and joint-action tools: Partnership and joint actions
• Water management tools in agricultural settings: Involving communities in the agricultural settings
• Intervention tools for major water-related issues: Adapting to climate change: solutions to change in the water balance status

Small agora : Characterisation & diagnosis tools
Title of worshop: Modeling tools

• Modeling the Growth of Aquatic Plants and their impact on dissolved oxygen in the Grand River
  Mark Anderson, Grand River Conservation Authority, Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
• Distributed Hydrological and Dynamic Coordinated Models for IWRM in Mexican River Basins (fr.)
  Armando Trelles, Mexican institute for water technologies(IMTA), Mexique
• Identification of sediment sources using spatio-temporal analysis of flood sedigrams (fr.)
  Taylor Olsen, Université du Quebec à Rismouski, Canada

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

• A first multi-scale representation of Integrated watershed management in Québec reveals the complexity of this approach (fr.)
  Caroline Anderson and Bruno Robert, Service de la gestion de l'eau, MDDEP, Canada
• Tool for evaluating the watershed management. The example of the watershed of Giffre (tributary of the River Arve, Haute Savoie, France) (fr.)
  Bérengère Charnay, Université de Savoie, France
• Effectiveness of a strategic water plan as a tool for resource managment (fr.)
  Brigitte Laberge, INRS-ETE, Canada

Agora STI : Information and joint-action tools
Title of worshop: Partnership and joint actions

• Urbanization of the territory and its impact on water quality and aquatic environments: contribution and limits of the Franco-Quebecois project IDEAUX (fr.)
  A joint presentation by Alexandre Brun, Invited researcher (Université Laval), France, Stéphane Ghiotti, Responsible of researches, CNRS, France et Frédéric Lasserre, Teacher,Université Laval, Québec
• Investigating the Potential of Public-Public Partnerships (PUPs) and Global Water Operator Partnerships (GWOPs) in Improving Water Services
  Gemma Boag, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Balcony Bellevue : Water management tools in agricultural settings
Title of worshop: Involving communities in rural projects

• Participatory watershed management for sustainable agriculture
  Shrikant Baldi, Government of Himashal Pradesh, India
• The La Guerre river watershed: involving producers for long-term positive results (fr.)
  Sylvie Thibaudeau, Club agroenvironnemental du Bassin laGuerre, Quebec, Canada

Balcony Orford : Intervention tools for major water-related issues
Title of worshop: Adapting to climate change : solutions to change in the water balance status

• Watershed integrated management in a context of climate changes (fr.)
  Luc Vescovi, Ouranos, Canada
• Climate Change and Water Management: Plan the Adaptation
  Jean-François Cyr, Centre d’expertise hydrique, MDDEP, Canada
• Impacts of Climate Change on the hydrological regime of the river Gambia: developing adaptation strategies (fr.)
  Lamine Konate, Organisation pour la mise en valeur du fleuve Gambie (OMVG), Dakar

10 h 30 to 12 h 00 : 5 simultaneous workshops

• Characterisation & diagnosis tools : Support capacity and pollution detection of water bodies
• Planning and governance tools : Legal tools I
• Information and joint-action tools : Transfer of training
• Water management tools in agricultural settings : Diagnosis of erosion and of water quality
• Intervention tools for major water-related issues: Adapting to climate change through land use planning and development

Small agora : Characterisation & diagnosis tools
Title of worshop: Support capacity and pollution detection of water bodies

• The use of Eutrophication and Phosphorus Loading Models for the Management of Québec Lakes: An Update (fr.)
  Louis Roy, MDDEP, Canada
• The characterization of septic systems as a means of controlling phosphorus (fr.)
  Christian Corbeil, Groupe Hémisphères, Canada
• Mapping landscape units that generate nitrate flow in the supplying basins of sixteen drinking water's catchment in Reunion island (Indian Ocean, France) (fr.)
  Anita Razafindrasoa,US 140 - ESPACE, Centre IRD de La Réunion

Maurice O'Bready : Planning and governance tools
Title of worshop: Legal tools I

• La nature juridique de l'eau au Canada : A res communis in civil and common law (fr./engl.)
  Madeleine Cantin Cumyn, member of the Barreau du Québec and Jane Matthews Glenn, member of the Institute of Comparative Law & McGill School of Environment, McGill, Canada
• Validity of the municipal regulation on riparian zones (fr.)
  Anne-Marie Robichaud, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
• Water quality: legal protection in foreign jurisdictions (fr.)
  Christel LeGall, Professional in Environment Law, Canada

Agora STI : Information and joint-action tools
Title of worshop: Transfer of training

• Water Connections: key tool for integrated water management
  Bob Sneyd, Centre for Sustainable Watersheds, Ontario, Canada
• Conservation Authority Watershed Report Cards: Turning Information Into Action
  Karen Maaskant, Upper Thames River Conservation Authority, Ontario, Canada
• The role of the scientific knowledge in administrator's representation of the IWRM (fr.)
  Marie Poupier, UQAM, Québec, Canada

Balcony Bellevue : Water management tools in agricultural settings
Title of worshop: Diagnosis of erosion and of water quality (Part I)

• Diagnosis of erosion in the catchment area of the Yamaska: from macro-scale planning to action in the field (fr.)
  Aubert R.Michaud, Researcher, Institut de recherche et de développement de l'agriculture, Canada
• The ODEP; A new tool for the diagnosis of exports of phosphorus in agriculture (fr.)
  Isabelle Beaudin, Institut de recherche et développement de l'agriculture, Canada

Title of workshop : Actions in the forest setting (PART II)

• FSC certification of private woodlots in the Eastern Townships and protection of the water resource (fr.)
  Dominic Besner, Syndicat des producteurs de bois de l'Estrie, Canada

Balcony Orford : Intervention tools for major water-related issues
Title of worshop: Adapting to climate change through land use planning and development

• Impacts of climate variability on water resources management in Côte d'Ivoire (fr.)
  Koffi Fernand Kouamé, Université de Cocody-Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
• Water management and physical planning, within and beyond the watersheds
  Rosendo Pujol, Universidad de Costa Rica, Research Program on Sustainable Urban Development (ProDUS), Costa Rica

13 h 30 to 15 h 30 : 5 simultaneous workshops

• Planning and governance tools : Financial aspects
• Planning and governance tools : Legal tools II
• Planning and governance tools : Implementing IWRM I
• Water management tools in agricultural settings : Monitoring the water quality of watersheds
• Intervention tools for major water-related issues: Climate change and community vulnerability

Small agora : Planning and governance tools :
Title of worshop: Financial aspects

Chair: Raymond Jost, International water secretariat
Introducing word: update on decentralized funding: learnings from the 5th World Water Forum (Istanbul, 2009)(fr.)

• Watershed financial solidarity : a central element to territorial water politics (fr.)
  Alexandre Brun, CNRS, France
• Efficiency of economic tools to control water demand in Mediterranean countries (fr.)
  Ferihane Karma, École nationale des ingénieurs de Sfax, Tunisie

Maurice O'Bready : Planning and governance tools
Title of worshop: Legald tools II

• Social indicators to assess the democratic performance of the deliberative process of the National Water Policy (Politique nationale de l'eau du Québec) (fr.)
  Catherine Choquette Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
• Source Water Protection: The Ontario Experience
  Christopher Waffle ,Canadian Environmental Law Association, Ontario, Canada
• Synergy of sustainable development laws as a tool for water governance (fr.)
  Julia Santos, student, Master of environmental engineering, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil

Agora STI : Planning and governance tools
Title of worshop: Implementing IWRM

• Presentation of a French concept: établissements publics territoriaux de bassins (EPTB) (fr.)
  Guy Pustelnik, general delegate of the Association francaise des établissements publics territoriaux de bassin, France
• The Application of Integrated Watershed Management to Municipal Master Planning in Ontario
  Hazel Breton, Conservation Ontario, Ontario, Canada
• A comparative study of the governance of waters in three regions of North America: (Quebec (Canada), Baja California (Mexico) and California ( United States) (fr.)
  Yenny Vega, Université de Montréal and president of the Association québécoise pour le contrat mondial de l'eau

Balcony Bellevue : Water management tools in agricultural settings
Title of worshop: Monitoring the water quality of watersheds

• Management of water resources in a strongly humanized small rural catchment (fr.)
  Julien Tournebize, Cemagref, France
• Sampling water in watersheds: what error for what strategy?
  François Birgand, North Carolina State University, USA

Balcony Orford : Intervention tools for major water-related issues
Title of worshop: Climate change and community vulnerability

Chair : Fernando Daniels, College of the Americas (COLAM)
The networking and social management of water: the experience of UNIAGUAS - Round Table

• Governance and rural community vulnerability to climate-induced water problems
  Harry Diaz, director, Canadian plains research center, University of Régina, Canada
• Mapping Differential Vulnerabilities to Climate Change of Farmers from the Central-Western Argentina Dryland
  Elma Montana, INCIHUSA, Argentina
• Watershed, communities and conservancy: an integrated management case in northern Mexico
  José Maria Martinez, CONANP, COLSON, Mexique