Historical Background of  (RCWE)

By the year 2001, “Global Research and Ethical Network Embracing Water”  (RENEW) had been created as part of UNESCO’s World Commission on Ethics of Science and Technology (COMEST).  These node points of RENEW started to take shape in the three geographic regions:  Bergen for the Scandinavian region, Canberra for Southeast Asia and the Pacific. 

The program of these nodes would embrace all aspects of water, and have “Bottom-Up” education/communication functions, as well as “Top-Down” high level research aspects with industry participation. 

RENEW is also expected to work in tandem with the parallel UNESCO International Hydrological Program (IHP) proposal to create a Global Organization of University for Teaching and Training on Ethics of Water (GOUTTE).