1. Recent Water-related News
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1-1 Flood in South America
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2015.12.26 BBC NEWS "Paraguay, Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay flooding displaces 150,000"
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2016.1.17 NASA "El Niño Fueled Rains Swamp South America"
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1-2 Flood in USA (Mississippi River)
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2015.12.25 AccuWeather.com "Post-Christmas storm to slam central US with flooding, severe weather and snow"
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2016.1.10 THE ADVOCATE "Corps of Engineers opens Bonnet Carre' Spillway Sunday in response to early flood conditions"
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1-3 Flood in UK
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2015.12.27 BBC NEWS "UK floods: Homes evacuated amid heavy rain"
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2016.1.6 the guardian "Flood warnings remain across most of UK as MPs quiz Environment Agency chiefs"
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1-4 Flood in USA (East Coast)
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2016.1.23 The Weather Channel "Winter Storm Jonas: Record Coastal Flooding Strikes New Jersey"
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1-5 Floods and Droughts in southern Africa
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2016.2.8 THE WATCHERS "Persistent droughts and heightened risk of floods in southern Africa"
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2. International Conference and Forum
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2-1 Vietnam-Japan Workshop: Re-structure of Water Resources Sector
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Vietnam-Japan Technical Workshop on Re-structure of Water Resources Sector was held in Ha Noi, Vietnam on December 18, 2015.
The workshop was based on the MOU (Memorandum on Cooperation in the field of Water-Related Disaster Management and Climate Change Adaptation)
between Vietnam's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) and Japan' s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) in Sep. 2013.
About 150 people from the two governments and private organizations attended.
Vice Minister Hoang Van Thang of MARD and Vice Minister Toru Doi
of MLIT gave the opening addresses.
Water resources management in Japan as well as problems and countermeasures of sand beach erosion were explained and discussed.
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3. Others
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