Hiran de Melo, Brazil
El Niño's Impact on Rainwater Catchment in Brazil's Semiarid Northeast

Carlos Oliveira Galvão, Brazil
Potential Benefits of Tropical Seasonal Rainfall Forecasting for Rainwater Catchment Systems

Richard Heggen, USA
Drought Criteria

Nicholas Kiggundu, Kenya
Modelling of Rainwater Catchment and Utilization on Farmsteads in Sipili, Kenya

Masihollah Adibi, Iran
Anticipatory Conservation Based Drought Management of Water Supply Reservoirs

Carol Conway, Australia
Rainfall Harvesting for Indigenous Health in Australia

Auditório Idalino Bezerra
Theme: Rainwater Catchment in Urban Areas
Coordinator: Makato Murase
Secretary: Renato Bahia

Ichiro Kita, Japan
Local Governments' Financial Assistance for Rainwater Utilization in Japan

Donald Waller, Canada
Rainwater as a Source in an Innovative Urban Dwelling

Terry Thomas, UK
Affordable Roofwater Harvesting in the Humid Tropics

Johann Gnadlinger, Brazil
Technical Presentation of Various Types of Cisterns Built in the Rural Communities of the Semiarid Region of Brazil

Auditório Idalino Bezerra
Workshop I
Coordinator: Yu-Si Fok
Secretary: Ayodete O. Babatunde

Rob Dyer, South Africa
Promotion of Rainwater Catchment in Southern Africa

Henry H. Smith, USA
Considerations for Developing Guidelines for Rainwater Catchment Systems in the U.S. Virgin Islands

Zhu Qiang, China
Rainwater Catchment in the Loess Plateau of Gansu, China

Manuel Anaya Garduño, Mexico
Ancient and Contemporary Water Catchment Systems in Mexico

Zhang Wanjun Zhang, China
Rainwater Utilization and Its Prospect in Taihang Mountains, China

Datius Rutashobya, Tanzania
Experiences Gained in the Development of Rainwater Catchment in Tanzania

Auditório Idalino Bezerra
Theme: Technology of Rainwater Catchment Systems - Cisterns
Coordinator: Terry Thomas
Secretary: Gilberto Cordeiro

K. Devapriya Hapugoda, Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka's Experiences with Low Cost Extraction Hand Pump, Storage Cover, First Flush and Guttering in Domestic Rainwater Catchment Systems

Nasser Talebbeydokkhti, Iran
Abanbars as a Trustable Method of Water Harvesting

Elizabeth Szilassy, Brazil
Construction of Circular Rainwater Cisterns Using Metal Forms

Harald Schistek, Brazil
Caxio and Cacimba - Two Traditional Brazilian Rainwater Catchment Systems

Martin D. Mundo Molina, Mexico
Rain Collection as Water Source For Small Rural Communities in Chiapas, Mexico

Gholamreza Rahbar, Iran
An Assessment of the Damage Sustained by the Gareh Bygone Plain Artificial Recharge of Groundwater System in the Deluge of 1995

Luciano Cordoval de Barros, Brazil
Damming and Storing of Rainwater in Central Brazil

Subhra Chakravarty, India
Technologies for Enhancing Groundwater Recharge

Vinodlal N. Shroff, India
Micro-Minor Methods of Rainwater Conservation and Groundwater Recharge

Masoud Nejabat, Iran
Improving Environmental Characteristics in a Wide Area Around a Flood Water Spreading System, "A Case Study "

Auditório Idalino Bezerra
Theme: Political and Socio-Economic Aspects of Rainwater Catchment Systems
Coordinator: Datius Rutashobya
Secretary: Manoel Abílio de Queiroz

Assadollah Bakhtiar, Iran
Peasants Attitudes Towards Participation in Floodwater Spreading Systems Development - The Case of the Gareh Bygone Project Systems Developments--A Case Study

John Mbugua Kiongo, Kenya
Rainwater Harvesting and Poverty Alleviation, Laikipia Experience

Samar Husary, Palestine
Political and Socio-Economic Dimensions of Rainwater Catchment on the West Bank, Palestine

Greg Simmons, New Zealand
Assessing the Microbial Health Risks of Potable Water

Tanuja Ariyananda, Sri Lanka
Comparative Review of Drinking Water Quality from Different Rain Water Harvesting Systems in Sri Lanka

John Gould, New Zealand
Is Rainwater Safe to Drink? A Review of Recent Findings

Auditório Idalino Bezerra
Workshop II
Coordinator/Secretary: Elizabeth Szilassy

Fabrizio Cesaretti, Brazil
Alternative Loans for the Construction of Domestic Cisterns in the Semiarid Region of the State of Paraiba, Brazil

Jessica Calfoforo-Salas, Philippines
Women in Community Communication in the Watershed

Hysen Cobani, Albania
Rainwater Collection—a Fast Way to Overcome the Chronic and Growing Shortage of Water of the Albanian Rural Family

Sipiwe Dewa, Zimbabwe
Rainwater Catchment: Women and Gender Participation in Zimbabwe

Shaibu H. Geugeu, Tanzania
Ask the People: Experience Makong’endela: Rock Catchment Dam in the Masasi District, Tanzania

Millie Ouma, Kenya
The Role of Women in Water Development

Johann Gnadlinger, Brazil
Rainwater Catchment in Brazil’s Rural Semiarid Tropics: A Grassroots' Approach

Sudhirendar Sharma, India
Food Security Through Rainwater Catchment

Khosrow Movahed, Iran
Rural People and Water Resource Management

Auditório Idalino Bezerra
Theme: Rainwater Catchment in Agriculture
Coordinator: Qiang Zhu
Secretary: Manoel Abílio de Queiroz

G. K. Bambrah, Kenya
Strategic Water Development in Rural Kenya-- The Importance of Rainwater Catchments

Abdulaziz S. Al-Turbak, Saudi Arabia
Efficient Use of Rainwater in Irrigation in Southwestern Saudi Arabia

Leopold Some Inera, Burkina Faso
Rainwater Catchment Techniques in Burkina Faso: Researches Status and Development Priorities

Show-Chyuan Chu, Taiwan
The Assessment of Agricultural Rainwater Catchment Systems in Mudstone Areas

José Barbosa dos Anjos, Brazil
Methods of "in situ" Rainwater Catchment

Haisheng Mou, China
Division Study of Rainwater Utilization in China

Yu-Si Fok, USA
Hawaii Rainwater Catchment Systems Development: Draft Guidelines Development

Rajindra de Silva Ariyabandu, Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka: Problems and Prospects of Rainwater Catchment for the 21^st Century

Julius Masika Wanyonyi, Kenya
Rainwater Harvesting Possibilities and Challenges in Kenya

Ramesh C. Bohara, Nepal
Rainwater Catchment in Nepal: An Answer to the Water Scarcity of the Next Millennium

Massoud Goodarzi, Iran
Sustainable Water Resources Management in Arid and Semiarid Regions

Auditório Idalino Bezerra
Theme - Technology of Rainwater Catchment Systems - Special RCSs Designs, Sizing and Devices
Coordinator: Andrew Lo
Secretary: Abelardo Montenegro

Leroy Heitz, USA (Guam)
Development of Rooftop Rainwater Catchment System Design Criteria for Pohnpei State, Federated States of Micronesia

David W. Waweru, Kenya
Influence of Rainfall Amount and Distribution on Rainwater Catchment System Design

Stephen N. Ngigi, Kenya
Optimization of Rainwater Catchment Systems Design Parameters in the Arid and Semiarid Lands of Kenya

Alan Fewkes, UK
The Sizing of Rainwater Stores Using Behavioral Models

David Garces, Colombia
Determination of the Optimum Volume of a Cistern Applied to San Andrés Island, Colombia

Mahinda Kurukulasuriya, Sri Lanka
Effective Application of First Flush Device to Improve RainwaterQuality for Drinking

Abelardo A. Montenegro, Brazil
Hydrological Regularization in Alluvial Areas—A Case Study in Brazil’s Semiarid Northeast

José Almir Cirilo, Brazil
Underground Dams: A Pernambuco (Brazil) Experience

Auditório Idalino Bezerra
Workshop III:
Coordinator: John Gould
Secretary: Ricardo Brito

Johnson Akoko Ouko, Kenya
Community Management of Rainwater Harvesting Structures

Wim P. Spaan, Netherlands
Estimation of Water Use by Vegetation Barriers Based on Climatological Factors and Soil Moisture Levels

Qiangguo Cai, China
Rainfall Runoff and Sediment Reduction Effect of Hedgerow Plants on Purple Soil Slopeland

Yaghoub Norouzi Banis, Iran
The Effect of Spatial Averaging of Rainfall on Erosion at the Catchment Scale

Andrew Lo, Taiwan
A Simulation Model of Flood Runoff Utilization in Taiwan

Flávio Hugo Barreto Batista, Brazil
Practical Soil Science Applications for Estimating Runoff in Semiarid Regions

Auditório Idalino Bezerra
Theme: Other Hydro-Related Topics
Coordinator: Manuel Anaya Garduño
Secretary: Almir Cirilo

Mehmet Aydin, Turkey
Water As A Means of Reconciliation in the Middle East

Bahri Cevik, Turkey
Eastern Anatolia Watershed Rehabilitation Project

Abolghasem Tavassoli, Iran
Contamination of Water Resources Due to the Gulf War

Antônio Heriberto de Castro Teixeira, Brazil
Serial Water Balance of Petrolina, Pernambuco—Brazil