The objectives of the GWANET: improved gender awareness among the water sector stakeholders at regional, national and local levels through establishment of GWANET; strengthened capacity of the water sector stakeholders for incorporating gender dimensions into the decision-making process. Since ADB’s assistance program in the CARs includes a number of water related loan and TA projects, …
Water infrastructure in Central Asia consists of hundreds of reservoirs, dams, irrigation systems and pumping stations, a lot of channels and tens of multi-purpose waterworks facilities. There is the world’s highest rockfill dam – Nurek with height of 300 meters on the Vakhsh River in Tajikistan, and there is also one of the longest canals …
International water law concerns the rights and obligations that exist, primarily between States, for the management of transboundary water resources. Such legal rules and principles are dedicated to preventing conflict and promoting cooperation of shared water resources International water law has evolved and crystallized through state practice and the codification and progressive development efforts undertaken …
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This documentation accompanies a series of polygon layers that depict watershed boundaries and sub-basin delineations at a global scale. The goal of this product is to provide a seamless global coverage of consistently sized and hierarchically nested sub-basins at different scales (from tens to millions of square kilometers), supported by a coding scheme that allows …
The UN Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia has issued a new publication on “Innovations in Trans-boundary Water Management: Pacific Resolutions”.
The UN Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia has issued a new publication on “Bilateral and Multilateral Cooperation on Trans-Boundary Water Resources in Central Asia: The Way Forward Following the Sixth World Water Forum “.
The UN Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia has issued a new publication on “Early Warning on Potential Trans-boundary Water Problem Situations in Central Asia”.
The UN Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia has issued another publication entitled “Best Practices and International Experience with Trans-boundary Water Dispute Resolution”.
This report summarizes USAID’s fiscal year 2008 investments and programs in safe drinking water and sanitation supply projects and related water management activities around the world through March/April 2009.
HydroSHEDS (Hydrological data and maps based on SHuttle Elevation Derivatives at multiple Scales) provides hydrographic information in a consistent and comprehensive format for regional and global-scale applications. HydroSHEDS offers a suite of geo-referenced data sets (vector and raster), including stream networks, watershed boundaries, drainage directions, and ancillary data layers such as flow accumulations, distances, and …
