Organizing Committee:
With the participation/ support of FAH
Cyriaque Rufin NGUIMALET (LACCEG), Mathurin SONGOSSAYE (FLSH), Sylvain GUEBANDA (PNE-RCA), Bertrand DOUKPOLO (C/CEMAC), Silla SEMBELLA (FS), André MOLOLI (ILA), Apollinaire SELEZILO (C/CEMAC),
UNIVERSITY OF BANGUI
LACCEG
Alain LARAQUE (France), Didier ORANGE (France), Gil MAHE (France), Anas EMRAN (CRASTE-LF).
Organize an Scientific Committee: David BLANCHON (France), Cyriaque Rufin NGUIMALET (CAR), Alain LARAQUE (France), Didier ORANGE (France), Gil MAHE (France), Guy MOUKANDJI (Congo), Raphael TSHIMANGA (DRC), Abou AMANI (UNESCO), Douglas ALSDORF (USA), Luc SIGHA-NKAMDJOU (Cameroon), José SANCHEZ-PEREZ (France), Sabine SAUVAGE (France), Zoubeida BARGAOUI (Tunisia), Oscar ALLHADIN (CAR), Mohamed MEDDI (Algeria), Céline Yolande KOFFIE BIKPO (Ivory Coast), Anas EMRAN (Morocco), Jean Jacques BRAUN (Cameroon), Gaston SAMBA (Congo), Nicaise RABENKOGO (Gabon), Cyr Gervais ETENE (Benin), Ngolona GOUNDOUL (CHAD), David WILLIAMSON (Kenya), Daniel SIGHOMNOU (WMO), Jacques GARDON (France), Narcisse Patrice KOMAS (CAR).
International Conference on
Water resources Quality and Uses in Central and Eastern Africa: The Impacts over Ecosystems and Health Palais de la CEMAC, Avenue des Martyrs
Useful Address:
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12-17 December 2017, Bangui, Central African Republic
Water resources Quality and Uses in Central and Eastern Africa: The Impacts over Ecosystems and Health Guidelines In Central Africa, the quantitative degradation of water resources goes up to climatic breaking in 1970. The exceptional duration of this rainfall decline and the actual planetary rise make fear a quantitative and qualitative scarcity of water with great implications on the ecosystems, agricultural production, inland navigation and peoples’ health. These risks are to be taken into account today and in the near future on the base of recent scientific works done in Central and Eastern Africa. Important volumes of flowing waters and waste waters are potentials to be developed in Africa. Unfortunately, no strategies and political actions are known to take into account the provisioning of clean and sane water for households. How to do to put the water quality as the focal point of strategies that improves the water resource availability and that reduce the waterborne disease impact? In dry areas than elsewhere, the development of mineral and industrial activity brings out ordinary conflicts over water resource as well as it participates to the degradation of the quality. In theses contexts, the anthropization of the milieu associates to infectious pollutions of chemical risks linked to non organic components and synthetic components. These emergent’s risks, hard to documented without making expensive analytic platforms, bring out sanitary risks not yet evaluated. One of the ODD target is to improve the quality of water by reducing pollution, by eliminating the immersion of wastes and by reducing minimally, the uses and rejects of chemical products (i.e. fertilizers), and dangerous products… to enhance the recycling and the non harmful re-use for water quality and soils, thus for environment and populations. Also, in rural and/or urban area, women and children are the main water providers. But in times of armed conflicts or crises, do they play the major role? Which is the effect of insufficient qualitative resource on these human groups? Beyond, the cross-border aspect is also important because numerous rivers flow over many countries and it is essential that these countries collaborate in order to insure a shared management of resources that respect everybody’s need.
Objectives To invite universities, managers on water resources, users, and future doctors for sharing regards over water availability and quality, its agricultural use, water supply in urban and rural communities, impact of these activities on surface and ground water, and health linking to climate change, and the transversal themes about the impact of conflicts and crisis anthropic over these variables.
Conference themes 1. Quality and quantity of water resources and uses : access, lack, abundance, drawings, evaluation, pollution, food and health security, agricultural and industrial production, ground waters, irrigations, dams, and so on; 2. Variability or climate change : events, vulnerability, multiform impacts according to studied areas; 3. Impacts of the quality and the uses of water over ecosystems (soil, biodiversity) and human health; 4. Impact of the reduction of resources over inland coastal navigation; 5. Women and children’s role as water providers in peace time, and during shortage period or crisis; 6. Transversal themes to adaptation, to governance, to politics, to hunger struggle, to health, to science and to modeling activities; 7. Training in hydrology from elementary level to the university: measures in hydrology, hydrological modelling, water management, eco-hydrology and sharing information.
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Collection of works/knowledge on water availability and its quality, on its agricultural use, on water supply in urban and rural communities, on the impact of these activities upon surface and ground water resources, linked with the climate change, and on transversal themes concerning the impact of conflicts and anthropic crisis on these variables; Characterization of the evolution of the quantity and the quality of the water resource related to anthropic uses and climate change, focusing on their interactions; Broadcasting main results to take into account a strategic vision of water resource management ;
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Underbidding best papers in an indexed loan newspaper.
Associated trainings At the end of the conference, there will be trainings for all through participation. A detail will be given in a newsletter to come, but the themes will be: 1. Gauging by ADCP on the Ubangui River (A. Laraque and L. Ayissou); 2. Ecosystemic services adapted hydrosystems (D. Orange);
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3. Bibliometrics and bibliography on the web (G. Mahe); 4. ‘Radar satellites Data for mapping and its thematic applications’ (A. Emras); 5. Installation to gauging station on river (J.-P. Bricquet).
Calendar/ Important Dates 13 August
2017
31 August 11-17 September 18-25 September 16 October 13 November 12 December 13-15 December 16-17 December
4th Circular of the Abstracts Call of 300 to 500 words (including problem, objective, methods, main results, discussion and/or conclusion) End of Abstract submission Assessment of the submitted abstracts by a Scientific Committee Notification of the Abstracts acceptation to authors for either an oral presentation, or a poster Submission of a 4-5 pages Extended Abstract Last Circular with the definitive/final Program Registration to the Conference and Trainings Conference tenue Trainings
Conference registration Fees: Seniors Participants: FCFA 65,000/€100 Juniors Participants: FCFA 40,000/€61
