ESCWA Marks World Water Day 2014

To mark World Water Day 2014, ESCWA cooperated with the Association of the Friends of Ibrahim Abdel Al, the Association of Lebanese Industrialists (ALI) and the UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in holding a seminar entitled "The Water-Energy Nexus: Issues and Challenges", on 21 March, at the Order of the Press in Beirut. The seminar was under the patronage of Lebanese Minister of Water and Energy Arthur Nazarian, and was attended by Chairman of the Water and Energy Parliamentary Committee Member of Parliament Mohammed Qabbani, Member of Parliament Jamal Jarrah, Director of the ESCWA Sustainable Development and Productivity Division Roula Majdalani, representative of the President of the Lebanese Order of the Press Muhammad Baalbaki, Fouad Harakeh, Director General of the Ministry of Environment Berj Hatchjian, Head of the Association of the Friends of Ibrahim Abdel Al Nasser Nasrallah, Representative of ALI Ziad Bekdash, and Coordinator of the Environment Program at UNIDO, Nada Sabra. World Water Day is celebrated annually on 22 March of every year, to place focus on the importance of water and the sustainable management of freshwater resources. An international day to celebrate freshwater was recommended at the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro. The UN General Assembly responded by designating 22 March 1993 as the first World Water Day. For more information: http://www.escwa.un.org/information/meetingdetails.asp?referenceNUM=3447e