Recognizing the seriousness of threat to water resources in OIC member states, Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) held a ministerial meeting on the sidelines of the 5th World Water Forum in Istanbul, Republic of Turkey. The meeting suggested a balance between water consumption and its conservation in OIC member states. COMSTECH was represented by its Coordinator General, Prof. Atta-ur-Rahman.
Islamic Conference of the Water Ministers and experts highlighted the importance of serious approach towards solving water problems in the OIC member states. They declared the issue of water the most important and sensitive matter for the Islamic world and suggested mutual and international cooperation as a reliable approach towards solution.
Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, the secretary general of the OIC also chaired a session in the international water forum and he also headed the ministerial meeting of the OIC member states. The theme of the OIC ministerial meeting was "water vision for OIC."
The OIC Secretary General called for developing sustainable proposals aiming to address water problems. He said clean water is a requisite for good health and therefore the problem of water pollution should figure out more important among the proposals and action plans to address water problems.
Ihsanoglu also called on the ministers in charge of water issues in the OIC member states to develop feasible proposals that would ensure a balance between water consumption and its conservation.
He pointed up the ramifications that might arise out of water scarcity that may aggravate the food problem in the OIC member states. He explained that the OIC member states face shortage in food, inducing most of them who import food staples from other countries. He emphasized that the global hike in food prices, coupled with drought in some OIC member states, requires urgent action on food security issue.
Serving as stepping-stones towards global collaboration on water problems, the World Water Forum is a unique platform where the water community and the policy and decision-makers from all regions of the world can link together, debate and attempt to find solutions to achieve water security.
World Water Forum by the World Water Council is organized every three years in close collaboration with the authorities of the hosting country and is the largest international event in the field of water. The forum was held in Morocco in 1997, the Netherlands in 2000, Japan in 2003 and Mexico in 2006. More than twenty-five thousand participants took part in the fifth forum held in Turkey. However, the OIC ministerial meeting was the first such event to dwell on water issues in the Muslim world.
The OIC ministerial meeting was earleir recommended during a special session arranged by COMSTECH Inter-Islamic Network on Water Resources Development and Management (INWRDAM), in cooperation with OIC General Secretariat and Islamic Development Bank during October 18-19, 2008. The session was called to launch the OIC Water Vision process.
It was attended by H.E. Professor Atta-ur-Rahman, Coordinator General of COMSTECH and H.E. Professor Anwar Battikhi, Secretary General of the Higher Council for Science and Technology, Amman, Jordan (HCST) in addition to more than twelve esteemed water scientists from OIC member states’ institutions.
Reported By: Ameen Amjad
Islamic Conference of the Water Ministers and experts highlighted the importance of serious approach towards solving water problems in the OIC member states. They declared the issue of water the most important and sensitive matter for the Islamic world and suggested mutual and international cooperation as a reliable approach towards solution.
Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, the secretary general of the OIC also chaired a session in the international water forum and he also headed the ministerial meeting of the OIC member states. The theme of the OIC ministerial meeting was "water vision for OIC."
The OIC Secretary General called for developing sustainable proposals aiming to address water problems. He said clean water is a requisite for good health and therefore the problem of water pollution should figure out more important among the proposals and action plans to address water problems.
Ihsanoglu also called on the ministers in charge of water issues in the OIC member states to develop feasible proposals that would ensure a balance between water consumption and its conservation.
He pointed up the ramifications that might arise out of water scarcity that may aggravate the food problem in the OIC member states. He explained that the OIC member states face shortage in food, inducing most of them who import food staples from other countries. He emphasized that the global hike in food prices, coupled with drought in some OIC member states, requires urgent action on food security issue.
Serving as stepping-stones towards global collaboration on water problems, the World Water Forum is a unique platform where the water community and the policy and decision-makers from all regions of the world can link together, debate and attempt to find solutions to achieve water security.
World Water Forum by the World Water Council is organized every three years in close collaboration with the authorities of the hosting country and is the largest international event in the field of water. The forum was held in Morocco in 1997, the Netherlands in 2000, Japan in 2003 and Mexico in 2006. More than twenty-five thousand participants took part in the fifth forum held in Turkey. However, the OIC ministerial meeting was the first such event to dwell on water issues in the Muslim world.
The OIC ministerial meeting was earleir recommended during a special session arranged by COMSTECH Inter-Islamic Network on Water Resources Development and Management (INWRDAM), in cooperation with OIC General Secretariat and Islamic Development Bank during October 18-19, 2008. The session was called to launch the OIC Water Vision process.
It was attended by H.E. Professor Atta-ur-Rahman, Coordinator General of COMSTECH and H.E. Professor Anwar Battikhi, Secretary General of the Higher Council for Science and Technology, Amman, Jordan (HCST) in addition to more than twelve esteemed water scientists from OIC member states’ institutions.
Reported By: Ameen Amjad
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