This conference, organized by the River Water User Association (India), will convene under the theme, 'Global Threat to Water Security and Biodiversity'. The conference will address: strategies and solutions for water management and conservation, drought and flood mitigation, crop production in a changing climate, and improvement of urban and rural water quality and river flows. The conference will focus on five sub-themes: water demand and storage potential in river basins; climate change impacts on hydrology, water resources and agriculture; threats to world's rivers, lakes, wetlands and freshwater systems; sustainable watershed planning for regeneration of river flows; and river biodiversity and ecosystem sustainability and restoration. Scientists, researchers, government officials, businesses, NGOs and students from a variety of relevant fields will participate in the conference. Abstracts may be submitted to the scientific committee until 1 September 2016.  

dates: 24-26 November 2016  
location: Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India  
contact: Rajendra Kumar Isaac, Chair of Organizing Committee  
e-mail: riversummit2016@gmail.com  
www: http://iribaf.org/Internationalriversummit2016/
 http://iribaf.org/Internationalriversummit2016/themes/theme_bI.html