Activities

1. Paris, March 2006:  Founding meeting of the IGWCO/GARS/UNESCO Groundwater Working Group
2. Washington DC, March 2007:  Launching a Global Groundwater Monitoring Network initiative (IGRAC) and a decision of the Groundwater Working Group to organize a workshop in Utrecht
3. Utrecht, October 2007:  Workshop on Global Monitoring of Groundwater Resources.  A short one-page workshop report can be downloaded here (pdf)
4. Presentations at conference on Groundwater and Climate in Africa (kampala, June 2008), at WWF5 in the session on 'data for all' (Istanbul, March 2009) , at IAH/IAHS Joint International Convention (Hyderabad, september 2009) and  publication of article.
5. 2009; release of updated version of GGMN web-based application

Details about the events listed above can be found in the collaborative environment.

• Update of the GGMN founding documents (describing purpose, procedure, priorities, deliverables, etc.)
• Completion of endorsement from international organisations
• Preparing and sending requests for cooperation (to establish country/organizationalfocal points)
• Update of the inventory on groundwater related datasets ready to be used in GGMN and implementation of these aggregated data in GGMN
• Strengthening collaboration with remote sensing and global modeling communities
• Strengthening collaboration with complementary initiatives and programmes (GEO, Whymap, WWAP etc...)
• Looking for extra funding for first regional workshops for national experts and for overall support of GGMN.