World Lake Conference (WLC)

The World Lake Conference was first held in 1984 at Lake Biwa in Shiga Prefecture, Japan. Since then, it has been held biennially in wide-ranging locations including the United States, Hungary, China, Italy, Japan, Argentina, Denmark and Kenya. Established in 1986 as an international NGO collaborating with UNEP, ILEC has worked with host organizations in these countries and has been able to make important contributions to promoting scientific approaches in lake basin management, particularly for improving the state of lake environments in developing countries. The 12th World Lake Conference is scheduled from October 28 to November 2, 2007, in Jaipur, India, and it is hosted by the Ministry of Environment and Forests, India and ILEC. It will be the first World Lake Conference to be held in South Asia.