transboundary river

For instance, 148 countries share at least one transboundary river basin.

Watershed management is a challenge in the approximately 70 major transboundary river basins shared by the countries of the region.

Given the importance of transboundary river basins in the country, improvements to international coordination are urgently needed.

It will also require these countries to cooperatively manage and share the benefits of these transboundary river basins.

Activities include working with donor countries interested in supporting riparian-led initiatives to improve transboundary river basin management.

A transboundary river is a river that crosses at least one political border, either a border within a nation or an international boundary.

This project will explore alternative institutional arrangements for joint management of the transboundary river in such a way as to promote sustainable land and water use.

A treaty on transboundary rivers, clarifying issues regarding the use of such rivers, was signed and affirmed in 1912.

Fostering co-operation on transboundary river basins.

In the Economic Dimension, work continued on transboundary rivers and water management issues along with small business development projects in the regions of Georgia.

Accordingly, since the 1990s, the increasing use of the two transboundary rivers' water in China has been of concern for Kazakhstan's environmentalists and politicians.

• Both northern and transboundary issues will benefit from the creation of the new Transboundary Rivers Panel.

Transboundary river basin agreements in the Mekong and Zambezi basins: enhancing environmental security or securitizing the environment?

In addition, the provincial government has foregone billions of dollars in hydro-electric projects, from major river systems such as the Fraser to the northern transboundary rivers.

The EU provides nearly € 40 M to support regional water resource management and development in 7 transboundary river basins in Africa.

Other chinook returns to the Transboundary rivers are expected to be average, except those to the Alsek River, which are forecast to be strong.

The water wars hypothesis had its roots in earlier research carried out on a small number of transboundary rivers such as the Indus, Jordan and Nile.

Unfortunately, private data are proprietary; and even national or institutional data, which Dr. Peterson relies on, are sometimes withheld, particularly along transboundary river basins.

Cache Creek is not a transboundary river but since it completes the western part of the Big Fish River System it was included.

Transboundary water management is not covered by a formal policy framework in Botswana, although Botswana has ratified international agreements on management of transboundary rivers.

• Canada and the US will create a Transboundary Rivers Panel to address transboundary river issues.

Good returns of coho and chinook to the Transboundary River systems are forecast and normal opportunities for recreational and First Nations are expected.

During the audit, control weaknesses were identified in the Yukon Transboundary Rivers Area Office (YTRAO).

Particular attention should be paid to transboundary river basin management in African river basins including the Niger, Senegal, Nile, Okavango and Congo.

Fisheries Management functions take place in Canadian oceans (within and adjacent to 200-mile fisheries zones), inland river systems and transboundary rivers in all provinces and territories.