transboundary water management Articles
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Principles of international water law: creating effective transboundary water resources management
This article summarises the principles of international water law related to transboundary water resources management and analyses to what extent these principles are incorporated in recent international conventions and treaties. The study reveals that principle of equitable and reasonable utilisation, obligation not to cause significant harm, principles of cooperation, information exchange, ...
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Local stakeholder participation in transboundary water management: lessons from the Mexicali Valley, Mexico
We examine participation of stakeholders in transboundary water conflicts in the lower Colorado River basin. The analysis focuses on the impacts of institutional arrangements as they relate to two critical water issues in the Mexicali Valley: the salinity problem and the All-American Canal lining conflict. The results show that farmers lost economic, political and organisational power during the ...
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Conjunctive management of surface and groundwater in transboundary watercourses: a first assessment
Cooperative management of transboundary river basins is widely recognized as important. Emphasis on joint management of shared aquifers has also grown in recent years. Perhaps surprisingly, despite abundant focus on transboundary surface water and growing focus on shared groundwater, there is scant focus on their intersection. To address this knowledge limitation, this article reviews ...
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Improving governance in transboundary cooperation in water and climate change adaptation
Climate change adaptation in water management is a water governance issue. While neither climate change nor water respects national borders, adaptation in water management should be treated as a transboundary water governance issue. However, transboundary water management is, in essence, more complex than national water management because the water management regimes usually differ more ...
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Transboundary river basin organizations in Africa: assessing the secretariat
Secretariats are an increasingly common feature in Africa's transboundary river basin organizations (RBOs). Non-secretariat-based forms of transboundary RBOs nonetheless also exist, and such forms of cooperation have often functioned effectively. These realities drive questions about the rationale and role for secretariats. This paper employs two approaches to compare secretariat-based RBOs ...
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Seeking a consensus: water management principles from the monotheistic scriptures
Religious and cultural values related to water use and management are important motivation for many people of the world. Although much has been written related to water management and use in Islam, fewer authors have attempted to evaluate water management through the lens of other religions. The common thread of monotheism, specifically worship of the one God of Abraham, binds together the ...
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Adapting to Climate Change in Transboundary Water Management
Observational evidence from all continents and most oceans shows that many natural systems are being affected by anthropogenic climate changes. One of those affected systems is the hydrological cycle which encompasses water availability and water quality as well as water services (IPCC, 2007). Adaptation to climate change is, consequently, of urgent importance. The impacts will certainly vary ...
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Dynamic cooperation in international law and the shadow of state sovereignty in the context of transboundary waters (Part 2)
Introduction Part 1 International law and the duty to cooperate Origins of the duty to cooperate in international law Transboundary water resources management as a case study for the duty to cooperate: sovereignty as the grand challenge The global water challenge with a focus on transboundary water resources Sovereignty over water and the paradox of water security Overview of the ...
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World leading in five thematic areas by 2017
With its vision for a “water wise world”, the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) recently produced its 2013-2017 strategy, placeing its various programmes and activities within five thematic areas: Climate Change; Transboundary Water Management; Water Governance; Water, Energy and Food Nexus; and Water Economics. In the following two pages, we highlight why we work with ...
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Water information: what is it good for? The use of information in transboundary water management
Abstract Consistent and relevant information on the status of water systems is indispensable for rational and cost-effective water management. This statement has general validity for all types of river basins, but is particularly relevant for transboundary water regions. Information is used to support decision-making and to evaluate the effects of water resources management decisions. ...
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Regional water intelligence report: the Nile Basin and the Southern Sudan referendum
The Water Governance Facility published a new Regional Water Intelligence Report, providing updates on the political economy of transboundary water resource issues, management and developments in the Nile basin, assessing different scenarios in relation to the South Sudan independence referendum. The report looks at the socio-economic aspects of water management and highlight the links between ...
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Risk management of transboundary water resources: sustainable water management of the River Jordan basin area
The River Jordan basin suffers from regional water scarcity, wide economic discrepancies and a long-lasting dispute over land ownership. Prolonged, widespread unsustainable management has significantly decreased the water flow and aggravated water pollution. The river is now seriously at risk of drying up, with the loss of a unique ecosystem with important religious and cultural significance. ...
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Integrating water with climate change adaptation plans
This policy brief, published by the UK Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology, argues that water resource management should not be overlooked in plans for climate change adaptation in Africa. Africa is vulnerable to climate change impacts which are, in large part, connected by water. Rainfall is uneven and unpredictable across different parts of the continent and varies dramatically by ...
By SciDev.Net
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Risk-based integrated management of transboundary water resources: a general framework
Integrated management of transboundary surface waters and groundwater aquifers faces not only difficult problems and uncertainties at a national level, but also problems resulting from the fact that these water bodies cross international borders. After showing the importance of internationally shared waters at the global scale in terms of spatial extension, quantity and water uses, this paper ...
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Managing transboundary water resources in the Aral Sea Basin: in search of a solution
TThis paper examines the complex problems facing the Central Asian republics in the Aral Sea Basin. Confronted with unsustainable economic practices, environmental degradation and serious social problems, the Aral Sea Basin states seek to develop an effective legal and institutional framework for the cooperative management of scarce water resources. Up to date information on the environmental, ...
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The Yuma desalting plant and Cienega de Santa Clara dispute: a case study review of a workgroup process
Despite progress in international water management in recent decades, innovative methods for ongoing collaborative decision making are still needed to resolve and avoid disputes over transboundary waters. One such conflict is over the operation of the Yuma Desalting Plant (YDP) in Arizona, which has implications for the Cienega de Santa Clara, a recently formed downstream wetland in Mexico. ...
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Getting the water sector in the Western Balkans ready for EU membership
It would be my first time in Croatia, so naturally I was excited to be part of the team that organized a Danube Water Program workshop on EU Cross Support in the Water Sector in Zagreb September 28-29. Initially, the reasons behind the World Bank’s support of this workshop aimed at facilitating the alignment of national water legislations with the European Union (EU) acquis were not ...
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Why Eastern Himalayan countries should cooperate in transboundary water resource management
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, and Nepal in the Eastern Himalayas are interconnected by the common river systems of the Ganges, Brahmaputra, and Meghna (GBM). The GBM basin is home to approximately 700 million people, comprising over 10% of the world's population. The economy and environment of the region depend on water, but while the need for water is increasing, poor management and ...
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From monocentric ideal to polycentric pragmatism in the Syr Darya: searching for second best approaches
While best practice in water management typically calls for the use of a basinlevel approach, specific guidance in the absence of basinlevel management is fairly scant. This paper reviews the experience of the Syr Darya basin to identify insights related to second best practices for water management at scales below the basin level. This paper first presents the causes for the disintegration of ...
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Of transboundary basins, integrated water resources management (IWRM) and second best solutions: the case of groundwater banking in Central Asia
This paper tells the story of trade-off between hydropower and irrigation and its implications for groundwater use in Syrdarya basin in Central Asia. With the independence of the central Asian republics, this trade-off has become a transboundary issue. Efforts to coordinate bilateral action using integrated water resources management (IWRM) principles of basin-wide cooperation have not yet ...
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