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New Handbook for Integrated Water Resources Management in the Basins of Transboundary Rivers, Lakes and Aquifers

20 Mar 2012 | by gwp.org
New Handbook for Integrated Water Resources Management in the Basins of Transboundary Rivers, Lakes and Aquifers This publication was launched at the 6thWorld Water Forum in Marseille by the International Network of Basin Organizations (INBO), the Global Water Partnership (GWP), UNECE, UNESCO, GEF, EVREN and AFD who worked together to produce it.

More than half of the world population daily lives in the basins of 276 transboundary rivers and lakes or nearly 300 aquifers. Cooperation among the riparian countries to better manage water resources and the environments in these basins, in the interest of all users and all sectors, is becoming imperative as the pressure on water resources is increasing because of the global changes which are intensifying.