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).