Other resources
You will find in this section a non-exhaustive list of information resources on the theme of water cooperation. This section will be developed over time and offer more materials and links. We also invite you to check the Media Corner and the Youths and Kids Corner for more specific resources.
Water Cooperation 2013 information products
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Water Cooperation 2013 Brochure | A series of factsheets on a range of issues related to water including transboundary waters, water for food, climate change, disasters and more. | Information Briefs on |
Publications and declarations
In Focus:
Framing Paper Water for Peace
The Framing Paper "Water for Peace? Through Cooperation!" prepared for the discussion on water and peace as part of the Water Thematic Consultation in the World We Want post-2015, highlights water as an incentive to cooperate.
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Read more on the Water Thematic Consultation >>
Introduction to the topic
- UNGA Resolution A/RES/65/154
- Water: Catalyst for Cooperation (GWP, 2013)
- Poster - Water Convention: 20 years of successful water cooperation
- UNESCO | A World of science Vol 11 n° 1
- Stockholm WaterFront No.4 2012 article "Water Cooperation – Building Partnerships"
- Third World Water Development Report – Chapter 11 Sharing water
- UNESCO, 2012 - Water, Cultural Diversity, and Global Environmental Change Emerging Trends, Sustainable Futures?
- Capacity Development for Water Cooperation, UNW-DPC 2013
Conflict and cooperation
- International conflict and cooperation over freshwater (framework for identification)
- Transforming Potential Conflict into Cooperation Potential: The Role of International Water Law
- Priorities for actions and conditions of success: Contribute to cooperation and peace through water (6th World Water Forum)
- The Global Water Crisis: Addressing an Urgent Security Issue (Papers for the InterAction Council, 2011-2012)
- Groundwater Governance Project - Thematic paper 3: Urban-rural tensions; opportunities for co-management
Laws and Directives
- The EU Water Framework Directive (water information notes)
- Groundwater in international law (compilation of treaties and other legal instruments)
Transboundary waters
- Basic information on transboundary waters
- IUCN Knowledge Products - BRIDGE Project on transboundary water cooperation
- Transboundary water cooperation report (IW:Science)
- UN-Water Policy Brief on Transboundary Waters
- ESCWA Water Development 4 - National Capacities for the Management of Shared Water Resources in ESCWA Countries (2011)
- ESCWA Glossary of Shared Water Resources
- History and future of shared water resources
- Promoting cooperation through management of trans-boundary water resources, Success Stories, Issue 8, 2010, IWMI
- Share: Managing water across boundaries, 2008, IUCN
More publications on transboundary waters and water cooperation >>
Integrated Water Resources Management
- GWP basic information on IWRM
- UN basic information on IWRM
- International cooperation for sustainable land and water management (FAO, 2011)
- Network for Cooperation in Integrated Water Resource Management for Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean, ECLAC Circular #37
- Sharing water: Engaging business, WBCSD, 2013