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| Nov 29, 2011 |
Project Report by White and Case Published on UNDP Website!
To see the whole report on the UNDP site, click here: http://www.beta.undp.org/undp/en/home/librarypage/environment-energy/water_governance/international-waters-review-of-legal-and-institutional-frameworks.html
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| Nov 22, 2011 |
Unquenchable thirst threat to peace in South Asia
Unquenchable thirst A growing rivalry between India, Pakistan and China over the region’s great rivers may be threatening South Asia’s peace is documented in a new article in the Economist. See http://www.economist.com/node/21538687 SONAULLAH PHAPHO has spent half a century picking a living from Wular lake high in Indian-controlled Kashmir. Today he is lucky if he [...]
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| Oct 15, 2011 |
CLIMATE INDUCED WATER STRESS IN CANADA
A recent report by Bob Sandford, lead author of Climate Change Adaptation and Water Governance, links that scarcity to climate induced-water stress on Canada’s fresh water resources. According to Sandford that stress includes “substantial reduction in summer stream flows, increased likelihood of severe droughts, increased aridity in semi-arid regions, saline intrusion into coastal aquifers and [...]
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| Sep 19, 2011 |
IWC6 Coming Soon!
October 17 to 20 in Croatia – UBC Project presenting 4 workshop sessions. See details at http://iwlearn.net/abt_iwlearn/events/iwc6
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| Sep 19, 2011 |
Controversy over Canada – US Water Deal
Osoyoos Lake on the border of B.C and Washington State has a water-sharing agreement with the U.S. under the 1909 Boundary Water Treaty. The agreement is up for renewal, and a proposal to guarantee water flows to the U.S. is drawing fire from Okanagan residents. Fears are surfacing in British Columbia over a call to [...]
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| Aug 10, 2011 |
More news on the Nile Basin
Nile Basin Countries to Hold Exceptional Meeting on Entebbe TreatyCAIRO, EGYPT (OOSKAnews Correspondent)— 1 August 2011 – 09:00 – Nile Basin countries will hold an exceptional meeting in October to discuss the ramifications of the Entebbe agreement signed by six member countries last year. The decision, made during the Nile Basin Ministerial Meeting that concluded [...]
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| Aug 10, 2011 |
Weekly water report on international water and development
Water news. Water knowledge. Water insight – OOSKA News. See website for weekly global news on international water issues: http://www.ooskanews.com/
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| Aug 10, 2011 |
South Sudan – What will it mean for the Nile’s Hydropolitical Crossroads
On the 9th of July, 2011 the Republic of South Sudan became the newest country in the world and the 55th independent state in Africa, after a complex political process that started when the continent was experiencing its first waves of independence and lasted more than half a century. SIWI’s Ana Cascao reflects on the [...]
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| Aug 10, 2011 |
China – Three Gorges and a Remedy
The Changjiang Water Resources Commission supported by the EU China River Basin Management Program will give a presentation on the Three Gorges Dam and the South-to-North Water Transfer Project at the 2011 World Water Week. In this article Deputy Team Leader Lars Skov Andersen relates his experience on six years of work on the Yangtze [...]
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| Aug 07, 2011 |
Everything you need to know about the UN Watercourses Convention
Since the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational uses of International Watercourses was adopted in 1997, water pollution and overuse have worsened in many places, and the world’s poorest people are already facing shrinking supplies. The scale of the freshwater challenge is enormous, especially with climate change making water availability more unpredictable [...]
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| Jul 31, 2011 |
2nd Annual International Law & Transboundary Freshwaters Workshop 2011
Susan Bazilli, Project Manager, is currently attending this event in Dundee, Scotland. http://www.dundee.ac.uk/water/workshop/
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| Jul 30, 2011 |
IUCN Report Emphasizes Transboundary Conservation as Critical
20 July 2011: The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has published “Crossing Borders for Nature: European examples of transboundary conservation” as part of a project led by IUCN and the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) aiming to improve transboundary conservation in the mountainous border zone between Albania, Macedonia and the UN [...]
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| Jul 29, 2011 |
South China Sea Draft Agreement
D raft agreement between China and ASEAN, see http://www.voanews.com/english/news/asia/Clinton-Welcomes-South-China-Sea-Guidelines-126002064.html
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| Jul 29, 2011 |
IWC6
UBC project to deliver three workshops at IWC6 in Dubrovnik in October! See http://iwlearn.net/abt_iwlearn/events/iwc6.
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| Jul 29, 2011 |
Stockholm Workshop Report Available
Final Report
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| Jul 06, 2011 |
Water for Life – UN Best Practices Award Nominations open now
Nominations are now open for the second edition of the ‘Water for Life’ UN-Water Best Practices Award. The nomination period is open from 30 June to 30 September 2011. See http://www.un.org/waterforlifedecade/waterforlifeaward.html
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| Jun 23, 2011 |
New report now available on our website – Coastal Resource Management
From our UNDP-GEF Governance of International Waters through Experiential Learning workshop in Stockholm May 2011, there is a new report under Workshops available on our website by Dr Hans Hartmann and others – University of Costa Rica and La Rochelle University – Develop universal tools for coastal and transboundary resource management under variable cultural conditions
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| Jun 16, 2011 |
Expert meeting on harmonizing national legislation and institutions with ICZM Protocol – Croatia
The Expert group meeting on harmonizing the national legal and institutional framework with ICZM Protocol took place during 18 and 19 May in the PAP/RAC premises in Split, Croatia. The first day of the Meeting was dedicated to the analysis of the content and legal scope of the ICZM Protocol. The findings of the ProtoGIZC [...]
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| Jun 16, 2011 |
IWLEARN 3 First ICT Workshop in Thailand
For more details go to http://iwlearn.net/news/a-successful-conclusion-to-the-first-iw-learn-ict-workshop
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| Jun 15, 2011 |
Towards Marine Eco-system Based Management in the Wider Caribbean
New publication – see more at http://iwlearn.net/news/towards-marine-ecosystembased-management-in-the-wider-caribbean
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