CIWEM
Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management
Contact Details
Paul Horton
15 John Street
WC1N 2EB London
UK
Phone: +44-20 7831 3110
Fax: +44-20 7405 4967
E-mail: paul@ciwem.org
Web: www.ciwem.org
Main activities of the association
CIWEM believes that better environmental education is the key to a sustainable future and a vital charitable aim of the institution. To this end the institution organises a number of events each year where CIWEM acts as an ‘honest broker’ to bring diverse sectors together to make progress on key environment sector issues. Examples include Integrated Urban Drainage Management, Sustainable Regulation, Water Framework Directive, land use and water, wetlands, sustainability and environmental management.
The institution focuses some of outputs via the various technical panels, groups and networks
The technical panels are:
- Natural Capital (formerly Conservation and Recreation)
- Water Resources
- Water Supply and Quality
- Air
- Wastewater Management
- Waste Management
- Sustainability and Environmental Management
Groups：
- Rivers and Coastal
- WaPug – CIWEM Urban Drainage Group
Networks:
- Faiths and Environment
- Climate Change
- Contaminated Land
- Arts and Environment
CIWEM also produces WEM magazine, the Water & Environment Journal (WEJ) - http://www.ciwem.org/publications/journal/ and the online Journal of Flood Risk Management - http://www.ciwem.org/publications/flood/ .
The institution runs a series of awards such the Environmental Parliamentarian of the Year award and competitions for example Tomorrow’s Water, which has an international focus, the winner going to Stockholm during World Water Week to represent the UK in an international competition – see www.tomorrowswater.co.uk
The institution also runs the Environmental Photographer of the Year event. This year beat all records with over 4,500 entries from 98 countries and if you look at the following link http://www.ciwem.org/competition-and-awards/environmental-photographer.aspx you will find more details plus links to the newspapers and publications that featured the winning pictures. For the first time in the events history, a book was also produced. Some of the pictures were on display last night.
For more details about CIWEM at www.ciwem.org
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