Events
OSCE supports regional dam safety conference
When
3 December 2015 (All day) - 4 December 2015 (All day)
Where
Almaty, Kazakhstan
Organized by
The OSCE Programme Office in Astana, the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea Executive Directorate in the Republic of Kazakhstan (IFAS-KZ); the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
This two-day event aims to strengthen regional co-operation among the Central Asian countries, improve the legal bases for the safety of large dams and other hydraulic structures through the unification of methods for joint monitoring of the dams condition and other hydraulic structures and provide an in-time adequate response in the event of flooding and structural failure.
The event is part of the Office’s work in the sphere of prevention, damage limitation, recovery from specific natural and manmade disasters and transboundary water management in support to the priorities of Swiss and Serbian Chairmanship in the OSCE in 2014 and 2015 respectively.