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2006-11-21 10:10:00
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Embassy Ankara
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CSIS-SANDIA IN TURKEY FOR GLOBAL WATER PROJECT

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TAGS: ENGR SENV EAGR TU
SUBJECT: CSIS-SANDIA IN TURKEY FOR GLOBAL WATER PROJECT


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USDOE FOR CHARLES WASHINGTON
USDOC FOR 4212/ITA/MAC/CPD/CRUSNAK

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E.O. 12958:N/A
TAGS: ENGR SENV EAGR TU
SUBJECT: CSIS-SANDIA IN TURKEY FOR GLOBAL WATER PROJECT



1. Summary: Collaborating on policy and technology aspects of their
"Global Water Futures" project, CSIS (Center for Strategic Studies)
and Sandia National Laboratories sent a joint delegation to Turkey
as one of five countries of focus in the second phase of the
project. The Delegation met with the Embassy, the Water
Administration (DSI),the GAP administration, and the Minister of
Agriculture, and participated in a roundtable on global water
challenges at a local think tank. End Summary.


2. CSIS and Sandia Labs have collaborated on a "Global Water
Futures" project whose first phase produced a broad range of policy
and technology solutions on global water challenges. The current
second phase aims to identify in more specific terms how water
availability, water quality, and water management affect economic
development, public health, stability, and security at a regional
level. Selecting Turkey as one of five countries facing a variety
of water challenges, the project aims to complete a field study
focusing on diverse water issues such as the role of agriculture in
the economy, the development of irrigation to support agriculture,
trends in water and sanitation management, transboundary rivers and
prospects for integrated water resource management, the development
of water infrastructure and its effects on economic development, the
ongoing efforts of the Southeast Anatolia Project (GAP) and water
basin management.


3. The seven person delegation was led by Erik Pederson, Senior VP,
CSIS and Peter Davies, Director, Sandia Labs Geoscience and
Environment Center. The Embassy briefed the team on November 13 on
Turkey's trans-boundary issues, dialogue wih neighbors, long
process on the water portionof the environment chapter for EU
accession, and Ilisu Dam (determination to move forward, with or
without European financing). Sandia's Howard Passell briefed on the
successful hydrographic modeling workshop held just before in Amman
with participants from Turkish and Syrian NGOs and Iraqi government
officials, noting that it had contributed to technical confidence
building. The CSIS-Sandia team also met with MFA, DSI (water
administration),GAP, and the Minister of Agriculture, and
participated in a water roundtable at a local think-tank on
approaches to global water problems. Part of the team was going to
continue on to Istanbul to focus on water and sanitation management
in that "mega-city".

WILSON