Abstract
This issue of Water and Environment Newsletter is being released to coincide with World Water Day on 22 March 2002. The UN General Assembly in 1992 resolved to observe 22 March of each year as the World Water Day to raise public awareness of freshwater issues. The theme for the WWD this year is 'Water for Development' and the IAEA, for the first time, is the lead agency for coordinating UN system's activities for this day. By being the lead agency, a greater awareness is also being achieved on the role of IAEA in the water sector and on the role of isotopes in hydrology. The IAEA has played a pivotal role in promoting and expanding the field of isotope hydrology over the last four decades. Isotope hydrology today is practiced in most countries although the field began nearly 50 years ago with a few research centres in the developed countries involved in understanding the distribution of isotopes in natural waters. The number of analytical facilities has increased steadily as indicated by the increasing number of laboratories participating in IAEA's inter-laboratory comparisons. A significant number of these laboratories in the developing countries have been established with IAEA's support. In addition
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title = {Water and environment news. No. 15}
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abstractNote = {This issue of Water and Environment Newsletter is being released to coincide with World Water Day on 22 March 2002. The UN General Assembly in 1992 resolved to observe 22 March of each year as the World Water Day to raise public awareness of freshwater issues. The theme for the WWD this year is 'Water for Development' and the IAEA, for the first time, is the lead agency for coordinating UN system's activities for this day. By being the lead agency, a greater awareness is also being achieved on the role of IAEA in the water sector and on the role of isotopes in hydrology. The IAEA has played a pivotal role in promoting and expanding the field of isotope hydrology over the last four decades. Isotope hydrology today is practiced in most countries although the field began nearly 50 years ago with a few research centres in the developed countries involved in understanding the distribution of isotopes in natural waters. The number of analytical facilities has increased steadily as indicated by the increasing number of laboratories participating in IAEA's inter-laboratory comparisons. A significant number of these laboratories in the developing countries have been established with IAEA's support. In addition to geographical spread, the sheer number of hydrological studies with isotopes has shown a substantial increase. Isotopes were used in less than 100 reports of hydrological research and applications in major scientific journals in the period 1960 to 1954. During 1995-2000, however, more than 7000 such reports were published. The primary field of application in the early reports was related to groundwater, but applications in climate change studies, that were nearly nonexistent in 1960, grew to nearly equal to groundwater applications in 1995-2000.}
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title = {Water and environment news. No. 15}
author = {None}
abstractNote = {This issue of Water and Environment Newsletter is being released to coincide with World Water Day on 22 March 2002. The UN General Assembly in 1992 resolved to observe 22 March of each year as the World Water Day to raise public awareness of freshwater issues. The theme for the WWD this year is 'Water for Development' and the IAEA, for the first time, is the lead agency for coordinating UN system's activities for this day. By being the lead agency, a greater awareness is also being achieved on the role of IAEA in the water sector and on the role of isotopes in hydrology. The IAEA has played a pivotal role in promoting and expanding the field of isotope hydrology over the last four decades. Isotope hydrology today is practiced in most countries although the field began nearly 50 years ago with a few research centres in the developed countries involved in understanding the distribution of isotopes in natural waters. The number of analytical facilities has increased steadily as indicated by the increasing number of laboratories participating in IAEA's inter-laboratory comparisons. A significant number of these laboratories in the developing countries have been established with IAEA's support. In addition to geographical spread, the sheer number of hydrological studies with isotopes has shown a substantial increase. Isotopes were used in less than 100 reports of hydrological research and applications in major scientific journals in the period 1960 to 1954. During 1995-2000, however, more than 7000 such reports were published. The primary field of application in the early reports was related to groundwater, but applications in climate change studies, that were nearly nonexistent in 1960, grew to nearly equal to groundwater applications in 1995-2000.}
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