Technical Training Workshop: Water Quality Impact Mitigation and Strengthening Hydropower Cascade Dam Management for Nam Ngum River Basin, Lao PDR

SIP is working in close consultation with NNRBCS, MoNRE, MEM, international aid agencies, multilateral organizations, research institutions, development implementer organizations, and expert partners to organize and facilitate a Technical Training Workshop on Water Quality Impact Mitigation and Strengthening Hydropower Cascade Dam Management for Nam Ngum River Basin. This training workshop is hoped to be the beginning of a sustainable capacity building intervention on water quality impact mitigation and hydropower cascade coordination for the responsible Lao agencies, NN dam operators and concerned stakeholders. It is planned to be held on January 22nd-24th, 2018 in Thalad District, Vientiane Province. Lao PDR. The objectives and expected key outputs can be clearly identified as the following: 

Objectives and Expected Key Outputs 

1. Facilitate a meeting and consultation platform for the responsible agencies, dam operators, and concerned stakeholders on the water pollution problem in the Nam Ngum River Basin. 

2. Develop shared understanding of the current state of the water pollution problem, and share potential solutions and successful case studies that could be adopted to mitigate the water pollution problem. 

3. Facilitate a long-term approach and future work plan indicators for the responsible agencies and concerned stakeholders to coordinate, mitigate and solve the water pollution problem in the Nam Ngum River. 

4. Demonstrate a training intervention that can be presented as a relevant case study for the other Lower Mekong governments, Friends of the Lower Mekong and for other stakeholders who have planned for hydropower cascade research, investments and developments. 

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