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Acknowledgements............................................................................ 3
Foreword by Irina Bokova, Director-General, United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.............................. 4
Preface by Michel Jarraud, Chair of UN-Water and
Secretary-General, World Meteorological Organization (WMO).......... 5
Statement by Mr János Áder, President of the Republic of Hungary.. 10
Statement by Mr Emomali Rahmon, President of the
Republic of Tajikistan......................................................................11
Water security through science-based cooperation: UNESCO’s
International Hydrological Programme ............................................ 12
Blanca Jiménez-Cisneros, Alexander Otte, Miguel de França Doria, Giuseppe
Arduino, Léna Salamé, Siegfried Demuth, Anil Mishra, Alice Aureli
I
W
ater
D
iplomacy
Transboundary water cooperation....................................................20
Nick Bonvoisin, Secretary to the Convention on the Protection and Use of
Transboundary Waters and International Lakes, and Co-Secretary to its Protocol on
Water and Health, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
Greater cooperation through water diplomacy and transboundary
water management...........................................................................24
Julia Marton-Lefèvre, Patrick MacQuarrie, Alejandro Iza and Mark Smith,
International Union for Conservation of Nature
From the Dead Sea to an Israel/Palestine Water Accord:
20 years of water diplomacy in the Middle East................................ 28
Gidon Bromberg, Nader Khateeb and Munqeth Mehyar, Co-Directors, EcoPeace/
Friends of the Earth Middle East
Transboundary water diplomacy in the Mekong region ................... 31
Dr John Dore, Senior Regional Water Resources Sector Specialist, Australian Agency
for International Development, Laos; and Dr Louis Lebel, Director, Unit for Social
and Environmental Research, Chiang Mai University, Thailand
The Nile Basin Initiative: advancing transboundary cooperation
and supporting riparian communities.............................................. 35
Abdulkarim H. Seid, Wubalem Fekade, Emmanuel Olet, Nile Basin Initiative
II
T
ransboundary
W
ater
M
anagement
Cooperation over transboundary aquifers: lessons learned
from 10 years of experience .............................................................40
Kirstin I. Conti, PhD Fellow, International Groundwater Resources Assessment Centre
Sustaining transboundary water management by investing in
community cooperation ..................................................................45
Benjamin Noury, Associate Director, Oxyo Water
Transboundary water management – why it is important and
why it needs to be developed ..........................................................49
Anders Jägerskog, Stockholm International Water Institute and United Nations
Development Programme Shared Waters Partnership
Cooperation on small rivers can make a difference .......................... 53
Jeff Smith for the International Water Management Institute
Efficient and effective cooperation in the River Rhine catchment...... 57
Dr J. Cullman, Federal Institute of Hydrology, Germany and Chairperson of UNESCO
International Hydrology Programme; Eric Sprokkereef and Ute Menke, Ministry of
Infrastructure and Environment, Rijkswaterstaat-CHR Secretariat, The Netherlands
Sharing water in Australia: a collaborative endeavour ...................... 61
James Cameron, CEO, National Water Commission, Australia
Regional water cooperation in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region ... 65
Arun B. Shrestha, Shahriar M. Wahid, Ramesh A. Vaidya, Mandira S. Shrestha and
David J. Molden, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development
The Mekong River Basin: practical experiences in transboundary
water management...........................................................................70
Hans Guttman, Chief Executive Officer, Mekong River Commission Secretariat
Participation in the management of the Niger, Senegal and Congo
river basins. .....................................................................................74
Christophe Brachet and Daniel Valensuela, Deputy Secretaries, International Network
of Basin Organizations
The Murray–Darling Basin Plan: cooperation in transboundary
water management ..........................................................................77
Kerryn Molloy, Senior Science Writer, Murray–Darling Basin Authority
Mankind on the shores of the Baikal: the transboundary ecosystem
of Russia and Mongolia ................................................................... 81
E. I. Lishtovannii and A. N. Matveev, Irkutsk State University, Russia; B. Bayartogtokh,
Mongolian State University; and T. Villemin, University of Savoie, France
Libya’s experience in the management of transboundary aquifers..... 85
Omar Salem, Senior Hydrogeologist, General Water Authority – Ministry of Water
Resources, Libya
Transboundary groundwater resources management implemented
in the Kumamoto region of Japan ....................................................88
Tadashi Tanaka, Department of International Affairs, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Transboundary water management in the Zambezi and Congo
river basins: a situation analysis.......................................................92
Ngosa Howard Mpamba, Assistant Director, Water Resources Management and
Christopher Chileshe, Director, Ministry of Mines, Energy and Water Development,
Department of Water Affairs, Zambia
Interactive open source information systems for fostering
transboundary water cooperation.....................................................96
J. Ganoulis, Coordinator and Ch. Skoulikaris, Secretary, United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Chair/International Network of
Water-Environment Centres for the Balkans
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