The FAO Biotechnology Forum is devoting its next e-mail conference to the role that biotechnologies can play in helping developing countries cope with water scarcity.

Organised in collaboration with FAO's Water Resources, Development and Management Service, the conference will cover issues such as the use of biotechnologies to increase the efficiency of water use in agriculture and the use of micro-organisms in wastewater treatment.

To discuss and exchange experiences on this subject, we invite you to join the conference. This will be the 14th conference hosted by the Forum since it was launched in 2000.

The conference, as usual, is open to everyone, is free and will be moderated. It begins on 5 March and finishes on 30 March 2007.

All e-mail messages posted during the conference will also be placed on the Forum website (http://www.fao.org/biotech/forum.asp).

To join the Forum (and also register for the conference), send an e-mail to mailserv@mailserv.fao.org, leaving the subject blank and entering the following text on two lines:
subscribe BIOTECH-L
subscribe biotech-room2

Those who are already Forum members should leave out the first line of the above message, to register for the conference.

For more information, contact biotech-mod2@fao.org.