EMWIS National Information Seminar in Egypt, 10 February 2007

EMWIS National Focal Point in Egypt, the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation –MWRI-, organised, in Cairo last 10th February 2007, a national workshop to launch EMWIS National website project in Egypt. Dr. Mahmoud Abu Zeid, Minister of Water resources and Irrigation, opened the workshop stressing the importance of sharing water information within and outside the MWRI for the water stakeholders but also to use EMWIS to inform the general public. H.E. Dr Abu Zeid who took part in the creation of EMWIS at the Ministerial conference of Marseilles in 1996, foresees 2 main routes for EMWIS in the future: i) the organisation of data-flows within the countries (a priority of the Egyptian Water Master Plan) and ii) the exchange of information and know-how between countries.
The development of the Egyptian EMWIS website is supported by the Italian cooperation.

 Photo: From left to right: representative from the Italian Ambassy and H. E. Dr. Mahmoud Abu Zeid, Ministerof Water Resources and Irrigation, Egypt.

	Agenda of EMWIS National Information Seminar in Egypt, 10/02/2007
	List of Participants - Cairo EMWIS workshop
	EMWIS TU. presentation
	Center Information Systems at the Ministry of Water Resources & Irrigation (MWRI)
	Strengthening of Main Information Center (MIC) of the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation (MWRI) in its capacity of National Focal Point (NPF) for the Euro-Mediterranean Water Information System (EMWIS)
	Progress on Project and Future Prospectives for Egypt: 1st Draft of the National EMWIS Website
	Photos
	Cairo Workshop press book
	EMWIS National Information Seminar in Egypt, 10 February 2007