The commission shall also study measures on river basin management, including the management of the Zarumilla river basin.

Action by States in the Mano River basin

Assisting Governments to operate collectively in the management and sustainable use of integrated transboundary river basin, wetland, coastal zone and large marine ecosystems.

11. Financial Fund for the Dev. of River Plate Basin (FONPLATA)

Another project involves landslide mapping using SAR in the Al Zarqa river basin.

Arrangements have been established for aquifers, such as the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System, the Carpathians in Eastern Europe, the Danube River, the Sava River Basin in the Balkans and the Lake Victoria Basin.

UNDP Georgia secured over 650,000 from Sweden (SIDA) for a gender study to incorporate recommendations on gender issues in the Kura Aras integrated river basin management programme.

This commission will also consider ways to manage river basins, including the Zarumilla basin.

It also identified several priority areas for regional, subregional or bilateral cooperation in water resources management, as appropriate, such as river basin management and water allocation among competing water uses for sustainable socio economic growth.

Cooperation could also be enhanced through the strengthening of existing river basin organizations and agreements.

The first phase includes the updating of surveys on land based activities, a pilot study on POPs, a river basin management programme and the development of standards and criteria for the management of land based activities.

55 The case studies are the Dnipro River Basin, Caspian Sea, South China Sea, Lake Tanganyika, Benguela Current and Bermejo River strategic action programmes.

(i) Article 9 of the Framework Agreement on the Sava River Basin, 2002, No harm rule

Through a directive from OSTP, an interdisciplinary, interagency Scientific Assessment and Strategy Team formed to provide scientific advice to Federal officials making decisions about recovery and river basin management following the severe flooding of the Upper Mississippi and Missouri River basins in 1993.

In Europe and the NIS, a strategic action programme is under preparation for the Dnieper River Basin.

76. A medium sized project, to be funded by GEF, for the implementation of a river basin information system to support water resources management (Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay) is currently under discussion.

(b) Large, complex project administration (e.g., the Nile River Basin Initiative and other water resource management programmes) where UNOPS assumption of administrative and financial management, human resource administration and procurement services enables clients to focus on achievement of operational goals

In that regard, there was a request that the report discuss how the UNDP shared river basin management initiative could serve as a vehicle to support work on transboundary waters in the region.

Links will also be developed with the ongoing and future Global Environment Facility (GEF) regional projects under the international waters component, relating to the Danube River (pollution reduction and environmental management), the Black Sea (strategic action plan and environmental management), the Dnieper River Basin (strategic action programme), and the Caspian Sea (Caspian Sea Environment Programme).

And third is that we need to look at ocean basin wide management.

And in order to do that, you also need ocean basin management regimes.

Nile Basin Initiative Safe Navigation of Lake Tanganyika Malawi Transfer of Oubangui waters to augment Lake Chad through River Chari

Some key stations in the Zambezi river basin will be equipped with DCPs using the Meteosat system for collecting data.

Basin States shall cooperate in good faith in the management of waters of an international drainage basin for the mutual benefit of the participating States.

It also looked at integrated coastal area and river basin management, which links freshwater and coastal and marine systems, highlighting land based sources of activities affecting the quality and uses of the coastal and marine environment.

(f) Operational information and management system of hydrous resources in the Nile Basin countries

CLIRUN is a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet based integrated water balance model developed for climate change impact assessment of river basin runoff.

In West Africa, and especially in the Mano River basin, hopes for peace are gradually growing after years of turbulence and tragedy.

Some key stations in the Zambezi river basin will be equipped with data collection platforms using the Meteosat system for collecting data.

These draft legislation were in line with European Union standards and principles and with all relevant international conventions and the Framework Directive for Water, especially through introduction of the principle of integral environment approach to river basin management.

Its new thematic structure covers water basin management land, water and livelihoods agriculture, water and cities and water management and environment.

Integrated management of international river, lake and hydrogeological basins

The two sides noted that an early settlement of the dispute was vital for promoting peace and stability in the Mano River basin.

18. Stresses the importance of the restoration of river traffic, welcomes in this regard the reopening of the Congo and Oubangui Rivers, and expresses its support for the establishment of a Congo River Basin Commission

It would be important to develop water legislation and regulations to manage competing water demands at the river basin, catchment, aquifer and local levels.

Emphasis has been placed on integrating specific policies for groundwater management into policies at the basin level.

7. Also stresses the importance of the restoration of river traffic, welcomes in this regard the reopening of the Congo and the Oubangi Rivers, and expresses its support for the establishment of the Congo River Basin Commission

Through both visible and infrared imagery, it is now possible to make reasonable estimates of the precipitation that has fallen in a particular river basin, and thus to estimate the run off and change in the river flow.

Civil Basin

(3) The Contracting Parties shall establish, on the basis of a harmonized methodology, domestic water balances, as well as the general water balance of the Danube River Basin.

The data, combined with the digital elevation models and river basin layers, significantly enhance the capability of UNEP to assess environmental effects in relation to major ecosystem boundaries.

(d) Strengthen cooperation with key regional and international partners. These include the Mano River Union, the International Contact Group for the Mano River Basin, the European union and the Bretton Woods institutions, as well as civil society organizations and the private sector.

Broad depressions are to be found on the edges of the plateau, which form lakes Tanganyika, Mweru and Bangweulu in the north, the Luangwa River in the east, Kafue Basin and the alluvial plains of the Zambezi River in the south and west.

The Parties shall, in utilizing waters of the Sava River Basin in their territories, cooperate and take all appropriate measures to prevent causing significant harm to other Party(ies).

The UNOSAT service continues to provide satellite imagery for risk assessments in the Matagalpa river basin of Nicaragua, for improved planning to minimize the risk of damage from landslides.