On behalf of UNECE and UNESCO, coordinators of the UN-Water Thematic Priority Area (TPA) on Transboundary Waters, I am pleased to send you below and attached a call for contributions of Good practices in Transboundary Water Cooperation. You are…
10th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE« EUROPE INBO 2012 »
ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE
European Group of Basin Organizations EUROPE-INBO
Istanbul – Turkey – 17 to 19 October 2012
at the Istanbul…
Geneva, 17 March 2012 – The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (UNECE Water Convention), adopted in Helsinki, Finland on 17 March 1992, celebrates…
In July 2010, the United Nations recognized the right to universal access to water. Currently, nearly 900 million people worldwide lack access to improved water sources, over 300 million of whom live in sub-Saharan Africa.
As it did…
The UNESCO International Hydrological Programme (IHP) together with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH) has initiated a new Project on "Groundwater Governance" financed by the…
The International Conference on “Transboundary Aquifers: Challenges and New Directions” took place from 6 to 8 December 2010 at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris.
The International Conference on "Transboundary Aquifers: Challenges and New Directions" took place from 6 to 8 December 2010 at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris.
Objective
Most of the first WFD River Basin Management Plans (RBMP) have now been submitted to the EC in Brussels, and are at an early stage of implementation, but it is clear that we need different approaches for the 2nd round of RBMP, to be…
Project overview International Office for Water (Oieau, as Secretariat of the International Network of Basin Organisations), the African Network of Basin Organisations (ANBO), Ecologic and various African transboundary basins have developed,…