Interventions to increase agricultural productivity to reduce poverty and hunger through greater extraction of water must be balanced with water conservation measures.

Making Water Conservation Pay

The Contracting Parties shall, in view of the role of water in the functioning of natural ecosystems, take all appropriate measures towards the conservation of their underground and surface water resources.

The Contracting Parties shall, in view of the role of water in the functioning of natural ecosystems, take all appropriate measures towards the conservation of their underground and surface water resources.

Regarding soil and water conservation, improved irrigation techniques, introduction of water use policies and monitoring of competing uses and demands for water, soil and water conservation techniques, and flood controls were seen as important.

Reforming subsidies that encourage unsustainable water use could encourage water conservation and investments in water saving technologies and practices.

f. Conservation, protection, development, and economy of use of the water resources of the international drainage basin and the costs of measures taken to achieve these purposes

Adaptation measures should be focused on efficiency and conservation.

Other options included restructuring and construction of water infrastructure and reduction of leakage and construction of solar desalination systems despite high initial cost, and the implementation of nature and forest conservation measures to stabilize watersheds, and thus water resources.

Part of the solution may be the adaptation of energy conservation measures.

Towards the implementation of its Conservation Measures, the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources is increasingly cooperating with non contracting parties.

Many countries have successfully used water tariff structures to promote water conservation and discourage waste, while meeting the needs of the poor.

Options for North South environmental technology transfer on a preferential basis by agreement could include waste water treatment, water conservation and desalinization.

Providing economic incentives to farmers and industries, for example in the form of low interest credit, tax relief and subsidies, could encourage investments in water conservation, low cost waste water treatment, soil conservation and other land management practices.

Maintenance and rational use of water conservation projects and flood prevention facilities involving transboundary waters.

In central and eastern Europe, soil conservation activities are implemented with the support of initiatives focusing mainly on combating soil erosion, land fertility management and water conservation.

The Parties shall establish and implement policies for the planning, conservation, management, utilization and development of underground and surface water, as well as the harvesting and use of rain water, and shall endeavour to guarantee for their populations a sufficient and continuous supply of suitable water, taking appropriate measures with due regard to

We hope those efforts will contribute to greater compliance with conservation and management measures.

The Contracting Parties shall take appropriate measures aiming at the prevention or reduction of transboundary impacts and at a sustainable and equitable use of water resources as well as at the conservation of ecological resources, especially

(b) To ensure that transboundary waters are used with the aim of ecologically sound and rational water management, conservation of water resources and environmental protection

(ix) Article 7 of the Revised African Convention on the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, 2003, Water

c) the conservation of forested and other catchment areas and the coordination and planning of water resources development projects,

Most of the adaptation options identified for agriculture relate to crop management, land management, and soil and water conservation.

Most of the projects aimed to increase access to water and food production and to conservation of acacia trees.

Water scarcity could be addressed through modern water conservation techniques in agriculture (such as drip irrigation, on farm water management, lining of watercourses and canals, etc.) and through more traditional techniques (such as rainwater harvesting).

The Commission also maintains a database on vessels known to have fished in contravention of its conservation measures.

(v) Article 7, paragraph 3 of the Revised African Convention on the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, 2003, Water

In the industrial sector, three Parties proposed projects aimed at identifying energy conservation measures and actions (energy efficiency gains).

In Africa, the ongoing initiatives for rehabilitating degraded land are focused on reforestation, soil conservation and integrated management of water resources.

(i) Article 8 of the Association of South East Asian Nations Agreement on the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, 1985, Water

Their activities are mainly concerned with the recovery of degraded land, the rehabilitation of the natural environment, and water and soil conservation.

UNIDO also works on manufacturing conservation agriculture technologies, mainly water harvesting and zero tillage, bamboo and oil palm plantations and downstream oil.

Though UNICEF involvement will vary depending on factors such as water scarcity and pollution problems, all UNICEF WASH programmes in every priority country should include an element of water protection and conservation.

Activities cover such areas as information, awareness creation, reforestation, water and soil conservation, regeneration of rangelands, ecotourism and the promotion of renewable energies.

Measures taken to improve drinking water facilities included establishing the drinking water supply through a network of piped systems, installing a water reservoir, providing mobile and fixed water tanks and testing drinking water.

(i) Article 8, paragraph 1 of the Association of South East Asian Nations Agreement on the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, 1985, Water

WFP also carried out programmes on land conservation and water management in other sub Saharan countries such as Burkina Faso, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda.

K. Hinman, Ocean Roulette Conserving Swordfish, Sharks and Other Threatened Pelagic Fish in Longline Infested Water, Virginia National Coalition for Marine Conservation, February 1998, p. 8.

Conservation

Implementing water protection measures to minimize radionuclide seepage into Kiev reservoir through watercourses

Each Contracting Party is entitled, within its territory, to an equitable share in the development, conservation and use of the water resources in the shared river basins.

Some delegations expressed the view that where no regional fisheries management organization exists, coastal States should have the right and duty to adopt conservation measures.

Governments should be encouraged to adopt measures to reduce their countries' dependence on fossil fuels through conservation and encouraging the use of alternative energy sources.

The draft resolution on sustainable fisheries is inspired by our common goal of establishing appropriate conservation and management measures to make fisheries a sustainable activity.

Water quality for more than 700 million people could be significantly improved by adopting conservation practices in watersheds. And at least one in four cities examined would find such interventions financially viable, based solely on savings from avoided water treatment costs.