Following the World Day for Water in the International Year of Freshwater, the fifth ICEF will assess threats to resilience and likely changes in 21 major aquatic systems over the next 25 years.  

dates: 23-27 March 2003  
location: Zurich, Switzerland  
contact: Christiane Rapin Nussbaumer, Swiss Federal Institute for Environmental Science and Technology  
phone: 41-1-823-5336  
fax: 41-1-823-5315  
e-mail: icef@eawag.ch  
www: http://www.icef.eawag.ch/