Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Summer Program 8.3(Mon.)@Japan Water Agency, Saitama city and the Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel, Kasukabe-city, Saitama Pref.

Hi. Genki's writing. This day the participants went to a facility in Kasukabe, which is my hometown. 

The latter part of the summer program was held by ICHARM in Tsukuba.

This was the moving day from Tokyo to Tsukuba, including an excursion to Japan Water Agency, Saitama-city and the Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel, Kasukabe-city, Saitama Pref.

In the morning, the participants had a lecture on Integrated Water Resources Management from the staff of JWA (Japan Water Agency) and NARBO (Network of Asian River Basin Organization). 




Mr. Ichihara lectured on Water Resource Utilization in Japan and Outline of IWRM. Mr. Kawasaki explained IWRM in Asia focusing on what was achieved by NARBO.



Then, they went to Kasukabe-city in order to see one of the cutting-edge flood control facilities in Japan. The facility which lets water from smaller rivers to larger river through huge underground channel in order to prevent flood was constructed in 2006. The participants had a small lecture on the facility and went inside the channel.





After seeing the facility, they took a bus for Tsukuba.

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