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Transboundary Waters

Institutional Capacity Development in Transboundary Water Management
Third World Water Development Report (WWDR-3) side publication: Insights Paper, 2009 (636 KB)

Inland Waterborne Transport: Connecting Countries
WWDR-3 side publication: Insights Paper, 2009 (1 MB)

Draft Articles on the Law of Transboundary Aquifers
Prepared by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's International Hydrological Programme (UNESCO - IHP) and adopted by consensus by the UN General Assembly in Resolution A/RES/63/124, 2008 (348 KB)
Also available in Arabic (932 KB), Chinese (2.5 MB), French (444 KB), Russian (936 KB) and Spanish (416 KB)

Everything you need to know about the UN Watercourses Convention
WWWF- World Wildlife Fund For Nature, 2009 (2.4 MB)

The TWO Analysis – Introducing a Methodology for the Transboundary Waters Opportunity Analysis
Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), 2008 (1.1 MB)

Transboundary Waters: Sharing Benefits, Sharing Responsibilities
UN-Water Task Force on Transboundary Waters, 2008 (14.2 MB - heavy file!)

Transboundary Water Resources Management: the Role of International Watercourse Agreements in Implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, CBD Technical Series No. 40, 2008 (768 KB)

Share - Managing Waters Across Borders
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN), 2008 (2.1 MB)

Transboundary Water Management as a Regional Public Good
SIWI, 2007 (684 KB)

Our Waters: Joining Hands Across Borders
First Assessment of Transboundary Rivers, Lakes and Groundwaters in the UNECE region
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes, 2007

Sharing Water
World Water Development Report 2, Chapter 11
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP), 2006 (772 KB)

Managing Transboundary Waters
Human Development Report 2006, Chapter 6
United Nation Development Programme (UNDP), 2006 (1 MB)
Also available in Arabic (1.4 MB), Catalan (1 MB), Chinese (2.1 MB), French (1.1 MB), Portuguese (2 MB), Russian (2.8 MB) and Spanish (1.1 MB)

Managing Trans-boundary Waters for Human Development
Human Development Report Office occassional paper, 2006 (1.2 MB)

Atlas of International Freshwater Agreements
Oregon State University, published in cooperation with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 2002