Subject(s): Water - Distribution - Planning - Handbooks, manuals, etc. -- Water- supply engineering - Handbooks, manuals, etc -- Adaptive natural resource management - Handbooks, manuals, etc. -- Challenges of rivers basin management, integrated water resources management IWRM, adaptive water management in terms of development and application within IWRM, AWM concept in terms of training and capacity building -- Working towards AWM : summary of outcomes form Ne Water case river basins -- Tools and instruments for adaptive management : Management of participatory process, participatory modelling, uncertainty and policy making, indicators and monitoring to support AWM, introduction to analyzing dynamic vulnerability, integrated assessment tools and decision support systems, climate change impacts on water resources and adaptation, management and transition framework, internet portals and services for knowledge transfer -- Capacity building and knowledge transfer -- Case studies