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KnowledgeHubs
Water Knowledge Hubs

Knowledge hubs are centers of excellence promoting knowledge exchange and capacity development on priority water topics Confirmed Water Knowledge Hubs Other Candidate Hub Contact

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APWF’s KnowledgeHubs facilitates regional knowledge networking among the hubs and their clients and partners. All water organizations in the region are encouraged to join the hubs’ knowledge networks as partners and clients, in the process benefiting from better knowledge or contributing their own. As of June 2008, 12 APWF water knowledge hubs have been confirmed.

	Decision Support Systems for River Basin Management (Hydroinformatics) Center for Hydroinformatics in River Basins (CHIRB), People’s Republic of China www.yellowriver.gov.cn/eng
	Disaster Risk Reduction and Flood Management: International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management (ICHARM), Japan www.icharm.pwri.go.jp
	Erosion and Sedimentation in River Basins International Research and Training Center on Erosion and Sedimentation (IRTCES), People’s Republic of China www.irtces.org
	Healthy Rivers and Aquatic Ecosystems International WaterCentre (IWC), Australia www.watercentre.org
	Integrated Water Resources Management in Central Asia Central Asia IWRM Resource Center, Uzbekistan http://www.icwc-aral.uz/
	Integrated Water Resources Management in the Pacific Pacific IWRM Resource Centre, Fiji Islands www.pacificwater.org
	Irrigation Service Reform International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Sri Lanka www.iwmi.org
	River Basin Organizations and Management Center for River Basin Organizations and Management (CRBOM), Indonesia www.crbom.org
	Urban Water Management PUB WaterHub, Singapore www.pub.gov.sg
	Water and Climate Change Adaptation in Southeast Asia National Hydraulic Research Institute of Malaysia (NAHRIM), Malaysia www.nahrim.gov.my
	Water Governance Institute of Water Policy (IWP) at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKYSPP), Singapore www.spp.nus.edu.sg
	Water Quality Management in River Basins Korea Water Resources Corporation (K-Water), Republic of Korea http://english.kwater.or.kr

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Organizations can become hubs through a peer-review process that considers the relevance of their proposed topic, their expertise, and their leadership and capacity in their knowledge domain. Candidate hubs are presently being considered for the following topics:

	Groundwater Management Candidate hub to be identified.
	Sanitation Candidate hub to be identified.
	Transboundary Water Resources Management Mekong River Commission Secretariat (MRCS), Lao People’s Democratic Republic www.mrcmekong.org
	Water and Climate Change Adaptation in South Asia The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), India http://teriin.org
	Water and Energy Candidate hub to be identified.
	Water Supply for Rural Areas and Small Towns Candidate hub to be identified.

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Wouter Lincklaen Arriens
Lead Water Resources Specialist, ADB
Email:water@adb.org

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