MEDIA INVITATION -- Launch of WHO Guidelines for the Safe Use of Wastewater, Excreta and Greywater in Agriculture and Aquaculture

MEDIA INVITATION -- Launch of WHO Guidelines for the Safe Use of Wastewater, Excreta and Greywater in Agriculture and Aquaculture

September 07, 2006

    Please find herein your invitation to attend the launch
of the World Health Organization (WHO) Guidelines for the
Safe Use of Wastewater, Excreta and Greywater in
Agriculture and Aquaculture, in Beijing on Tuesday
September 12.

    Please confirm your attendance by e-mail to
[e-mail] by 4:00 p.m. on Friday
September 8.

    As good quality water resources are becoming
increasingly scarce and the process of urbanization
proceeds relentlessly, wastewater is becoming a valued
resource for the urban and rural poor.  It will ensure a
continued vital input into crop production to support their
livelihoods.  Without effective risk management, however,
the use of untreated wastewater, excreta and greywater
carries serious health risks.

    The third edition of the WHO Guidelines for the Safe
Use of Wastewater, Excreta and Greywater in Agriculture and
Aquaculture provide a broad target audience with the
necessary know-how and good-practice information to carry
out risk assessment and management through the entire
re-use process.  They provide a basis for the protection
and promotion of well-being in the best of public health
traditions. 

     Date:   12 September 2006 
     Time:   13:00 hrs
     Venue:  Room 3 at level 3 of the Beijing International
Conference Centre 

    SPEAKERS

    -- Dr James Bartram, Coordinator, Water, Sanitation and
Health, Department 
       of Public Health and Environment, World Health
Organization, Geneva, 
       Switzerland
    -- Professor Thor-Axel Stenstroem, Swedish Institute
for Infectious 
       Disease Control and Stockholm Environment Institute,
Stockholm, Sweden
    -- Dr Peter Edwards, emeritus Professor, Asian
Institute of Technology, 
       Bangkok, Thailand
    -- Dr Blanca Jimenez Cisneros, National Autonomous
Institute of Mexico, 
       Mexico DF, Mexico

    For more information, please contact:

     Elizabeth Loughnan
     WHO China
     Mobile: [phone] 
     Email:  [e-mail]

SOURCE  World Health Organization