Groundwater and Soil Resources Use for Sustainable Development in the Arab Region
	Location:	Damascus, Syria
	Date:	1-3 March 2004
	Host:	ACSAD
	Participants:	54
	Countries:	(13) Jordan, Libya, Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Morocco, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Yemen
	Organisations:	ICARDA, UNESCO, UNEP, ACSAD, BGR

Key presentations:		by:	Organisation:
1.	An overview of the activities achieved during the second phase of the project	Droubi, Hobler	ACSAD
2.	Groundwater Monitoring activities in the Arab Region	Droubi	ACSAD
3.	Use of treated sewage water for irrigation - importance and drawbacks of its use in the Arab States	Gilani	ACSAD
4.	Soil monitoring and quality indicators, the German perspective	Utermann	BGR
5.	Estimating sustainable groundwater abstractions for irrigaton in a water scarce area of Northern Syria on the basis of Water use	Schweers , Rieser,  Bruggemann	ICARDA
6.	Guidelines for vulnerability mapping, groundwater protection and risk assessment	Margane, Hobler	BGR
7.	Guidelines for Soil Protection - concepts for the assessment of soil pollution	Arslan	ACSAD
8.	Guideline for Soil Protection - soil quality sampling with reference to international norms	Muller, Darwish	BGR - NCRS
9.	Heavy Metal analysis in soil, comparability of analytical results	Harazim, Muller	BGR
10.	Guidelines for groundwater monitoring and sustainable use of groundwater resources	Margane, Hobler	BGR
11.	Guideline for Sustainable Nitrogen Management in agricultural practices in the Arab Region	Darwish	NCRS-BGR
12.	Environmental Impact Assessment for Soil protection	Abdallah	ACSAD
13.	From Groundwater Flow to contaminant transport - geohydraulic Modeling in the ACSAD-BGR-Cooperation	Schelkes, Sibai	ACSAD - BGR
14.	Institutional aspects and legislation related to groundwater protection in the Arab Countries	Abdulrazzak	UNESCO
15.	Sewage Sludge utilization - chances and limits	Muller	BGR
16.	Origin and bioavailability of heavy metals in Lebanese Soils	Darwish, Jomaa, Khawli	NCRS
17.	Decision Support System as an efficient tool for sustainable use of groundwater and soil	Kheireldin	Egypt
18.	Hydrological Atlas of Germany as a tool for IWRM	Ploethner	BGR
19.	Modelling activities in ACSAD	Sibai, Zahra	ACSAD
Country Papers:
	Jordan, Egypt, Algeria(2), Tunisia, Syria (2), Lebanon, Palestine, Morocco, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Yemen(2), Qatar
Papers by International Organisations
	ICARDA, UNEP/ROWA, UNESCO