International conference On African Large River Basins Hydrology

Dakar (Senegal) 26th November - 03rd December 2016

The aim of this Conference is to bring hydrologists experts from the international scientific community, and in particular FRIEND community, to present their work on watershed hydrology of African Large Rivers and on water resources management problems of these basins related to human activities and climate change, with expected overview from the other
large basins in the World.

- Global change, climate, hydrological regimes, extreme events, databases and observatories
- Erosion, sediment transport, water quality, water treatment
- Coastal ecohydrology, integrated management of the ocean-continent balance
- Water, health and biodiversity in watersheds
- Transboundary management of water resources, integrated management of water resources
- Water, energy and transport
- Models and hydrological modeling, water resource management scenarios
- Human-environment relationships and impacts on water resources and socio-economic   activities (agriculture, livestock, fisheries, mining, water supply, ...)
- Ecohydrology and pedo-transfers: modeling and management of water from the agro-ecosystems to large watersheds.
- Low flows, groundwater / surface water relationships, karstic hydrogeology

Even if a particular attention is paid to presentation focusing on the hydrology of African Large River basins, an opening is provided to work on large river basins around of the world. This promotes the exchange of experience in the approaches used in the general problem of large river basins.

The organizing committee will contact journals for publishing set of paper in regular or special issues. Languages of the Conference are French and English.

The Conference will be also the opportunity to set-up some side events:
- Side-event 1 : 3-days training on “SWAT model for initial users : hydrological modelling of solid and dissolved river transport in a large basin”, by Jos Sanchz-Prez(CNRS), Sabine SAUVAGE CNRS) and Didier ORANGE(IRD)
- Side-event 2 : workshop on “Hydrological indicators and standards”, by Abou AMANI (UNESCO)