昨天，东南亚地区的水资源管理专家齐聚泰国曼谷，互相交流看法，并听取该国在调动社会各方面的力量开展水务管理方面具有重大意义的成功经验。
亚行水资源部门首席专家Wouter Lincklaen Arriens表示，"泰国已经成为了水资源管理领域的先行者。该国的水资源政策和相关程序为本地区其它国家提供了非常有用的借鉴。"
本次针对流域管理人员的，为期两周的水资源综合管理培训计划这周将在曼谷举行，下一周则将移师清迈继续进行。参训人员来自柬埔寨、印尼、日本、韩国、老挝、菲律宾和越南。
培训将对来自多个国家的案例进行研究，并详细分析泰国是如何运用其独特的参与式方法来进行水资源管理的--该国已经正式设立了一套程序，使得流域内的村民和其他水用户能够直接参与当地的水资源管理决策。
参训人员将参观泰国北部比较成功的社区性水资源管理项目和小流域管理活动。他们将亲身感受这些地方多元化的水用户们，例如传统集团、工业企业、农场和居民社区等，是如何设立一套可以尽可能避免冲突和通过对话来解决问题的水资源分享体系的。
本次培训的核心主题--水资源综合管理（IWRM），是一种通过所有利益干系人的协商来决定从经济和生态角度而言均是最佳的流域水资源管理方法的规划和实施流程。在2002年在南非约翰内斯堡举行的可持续发展世界峰会上，参会各方呼吁所有国家最迟在2005年采纳水资源综合管理计划。
作为本次培训的组织者之一，泰国水资源协会会长Apichart Anukularmphai指出，本次培训将不仅仅涉及如何制订水资源综合管理规划的问题。培训的重点将是如何在各国互不相同的环境中把制订这种规划所需的流程制度化。
他指出，"水资源综合管理不是一个规划，而是一套流程。培训的作用主要是就如何最好地在流域和地方层面实施这一流程进行对话。"
Arriens先生也表示，亚行对该培训计划非常热心。亚行及其研究机构亚行学院，还有日本水资源机构，和亚洲江河流域组织网络（NARBO）一道，共同组织了本次培训。
Arriens先生还说，"水资源综合管理是亚行水部门政策的基石。流域组织是协助规划和实施水资源综合管理的关键工具。亚行的许多水部门项目现在都涉及到流域组织，比如在中国、老挝和越南的项目。"
Arriens先生指出，江河流域组织的网络化正在成为亚太地区水资源管理的未来发展方向，而他也是亚行水部门合作基金的负责人。本次培训有望塑造一批新的，熟练掌握水资源综合管理的管理人员。
他最后表示，"亚洲江河流域组织网络将改变相关的个人和组织。水资源管理首先要改变人们对水资源的观念。"
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ADB and Japan-Sponsored Water Management Training Set to Begin
Water management experts from Southeast Asia will gather here today to compare notes and hear the story of Thailand's landmark efforts to bring all elements of society into the way it manages the use of water.
"Thailand has established itself as a leader in water resource management," said Wouter Lincklaen Arriens, Lead Water Resources Specialist for ADB. "Thailand's water policy and procedures offer a useful example for other countries in the region."
The two-week Integrated Water Resources Management training program for river basin professionals will be held this week in Bangkok and next week in Chiang Mai. It will include participants from Cambodia, Indonesia, Japan, Republic of Korea, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Philippines, and Viet Nam.
The training sessions will present case studies from various countries and will examine in detail how Thailand uses a unique participatory approach toward water resource management. The country has institutionalized a process whereby villagers and other users of river basins have a direct say in the way water is managed in their area.
The participants will visit successful community-based water management projects, as well as a small watershed management activity, in northern Thailand. They are expected to see firsthand how diverse users, such as traditional groups, industries, farms and residential communities have developed systems to share water with minimal conflict and an eye toward conservation.
The fundamental topic of the training, Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), is a planning and implementation process that brings together all stakeholders to determine how to best manage a river basin's water resources from both economic and ecological perspectives. At the World Summit on Sustainable Development, held in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 2002, participants called for all nations to adopt an IWRM plan by 2005.
Apichart Anukularmphai, President of the Thailand Water Resources Association and an organizer of the event, noted that the training will cover more than simply making an IWRM plan. It will focus on how to institutionalize the processes needed to make such a plan function in the unique circumstances of each country.
"IWRM is not a plan. It's a process," Dr. Apichart said. "The training will function as a dialogue on how best to implement this process at the river basin and local level."
Mr. Lincklaen Arriens noted that the ADB is enthusiastic about supporting the training program. ADB, along with its research arm, the Asian Development Bank Institute, and the Japan Water Agency, is working with the Network of Asian River Basin Organizations (NARBO), to help organize the training.
"Integrated Water Resource Management is a cornerstone of ADB's water policy," said Mr. Lincklaen Arriens. "River basin organizations are essential instruments to help plan and implement IWRM. Many of ADB's water projects now involve river basin organizations, such as in People's Republic of China, Lao PDR, and Viet Nam."
Networking among river basin organizations is shaping the future of water management in the Asia-Pacific region, said Mr. Lincklaen Arriens, who oversees ADB's Cooperation Fund for the Water Sector. The training is expected to help develop a new generation of water managers skilled in IWRM.
"The Network of Asian River Basin Organizations is about changing people and organizations," he said. "Water management starts with changing the way people think about water."
