Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and
International Lakes
First workshop
River Basi Co
issio s a d
Other Joint Bodies for Transboundary
Water Cooperation:
Legal a d I stitutio al Aspects
Geneva, 23 and 24 September 2013
Reference materials and selected bibliography
on the legal and institutional aspects of the establishment and operation
of joint bodies for transboundary water cooperation
10 September 2013
Publications available online
General
ADB, General Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Planning and Design, Ministry of Water
Resources of China (GIWP), UNESCO, WWF (2013) River Basin Planning. Principles, Procedures and
Approaches for Strategic Basin Planning
http://www.zaragoza.es/ciudad/medioambiente/onu/en/detallePer_Onu?id=684
(last
visited
21/08/2013)
Da Franca, N., Stephan, R.M., Donoso, M.C., Gonzalez, A., del Castillo -Laborde, L., Mileto, M., Aureli A. &
Ugas L. (2008) Legal and institutional framework in the management of the transboundary aquifer
systems in the Americas, OAS, UNESCO, ISARM program Vol. 2, Montevideo/Washington DC
http://www.oas.org/dsd/isarm/Documents/English/ISARM%20Phase%20II%20%20Legal%20and%20Institutional%20Framework%20in%20Manage.pdf (last visited 30/08/2013)
Spanish version: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0015/001589/158963s.pdf
Dore, J., Robinson, J., Smith, M. (2010) Negotiate: reaching agreements over water, IUCN, Gland,
Switzerland
http://www.iucn.org/about/work/programmes/water/?4912/Negotiate--reaching-agreements-overwater (last visited 30/08/2013)
German Foundation for International Development (GFID) (1998) Transboundary water management:
experience of international river and lake commissions: Berlin recommendations
http://www.bmu.de/fileadmin/bmuimport/files/pdfs/allgemein/application/pdf/petersberg_berlin_recommendations1998.pdf (last visited
21/08/2013)
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Global Water Partnership (GWP) & International Network of Basin Organizations (INBO) (2012)
Handbook for Integrated Water Resources Management in the Transboundary Basins of Rivers, Lakes
and Aquifers
www.inbo-news.org/inbo/information-and-publications/handbook-for-integrated-water-resources-2021
(last visited 20/08/2013)
GWP & INBO (2009), Handbook for Integrated Water Resources Management in Basins
www.inbo-news.org/inbo/information-and-publications/handbook-for-integrated-water-resources (last
visited 20/08/2013)
French Agency for development, Collective work (2011) Toward a Joint Management of Transboundary
Aquifer Systems, Coll. A savoir, Vol. 3
http://www.afd.fr/webdav/shared/PUBLICATIONS/RECHERCHE/Scientifiques/A-savoir/03-VA-ASavoir.pdf (last visited 28/08/2013)
Mechlem K. (2012) Groundwater governance: a global framework for country action, Thematic paper 6:
Legal and institutional frameworks FAO, GEF, International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH),
UNESCO-IHP, World Bank
http://www.zaragoza.es/ciudad/medioambiente/onu/en/detallePer_Onu?id=586
(last
visited
21/08/2013)
Rieu-Clarke, A., Moynihan, R., & Magsig, B-O. (2012) UN Watercourses Convention User’s Guide,
Dundee: CWLPS
http://www.gwptoolbox.org/images/stories/Docs/unwaterconventionuseguide2012.pdf (last visited
21/08/2013)
Rojas, G.A. & Iza, A. (2011) Governance of Shared Waters: Legal and Institutional Issues, IUCN, Gland,
Switzerland
http://www.iucn.org/knowledge/publications_doc/publications/?8629/Governance-of-shared-waters-legal-and-institutional-issues (last visited 22/08/2013)
Sadoff, C., Greiber, T., Smith, M. and Bergkamp, G. (2008) Share: Managing water across boundaries,
IUCN, Gland, Switzerland
http://data.iucn.org/dbtw-wpd/edocs/2008-016.pdf (last visited 20/08/2013)
Subramanian, A., Brown, B., Wolf, A. (2012) Reaching across the waters: facing the risks of cooperation
in international waters, World Bank
http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/03/16588090/reaching-across-waters-facing-riskscooperation-international-waters (last visited 21/08/2013)
UN-Water Decade Programme on Advocacy and Communication (UNW-DPAC) (2013) Report: Water
cooperation in action: approaches, tools, and processes
http://www.un.org/waterforlifedecade/water_cooperation_2013/pdf/water_cooperation_in_action_ap
proaches_tools_processes.pdf (last visited 3/09/2013)
UNECE (2009) River basin commissions and other institutions for transboundary water cooperation
http://www.unece.org/index.php?id=11628 (last visited 21/08/2013)
UNECE (2011) Second Assessment of Transboundary Rivers, Lakes and Groundwaters
www.unece.org/env/water/publications/pub/second_assessment.html (last visited 21/08/2013)
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UNECE (2013) Guide to Implementing the Water Convention
http://www.unece.org/env/water/publications/pub.html (last visited 30/08/2013)
UN-Water (2012) Status Report on the Application of Integrated Approaches to Water Resources
Management. (Chapters 3, 4, 5, 6)
http://www.unwater.org/rio2012/report/ (last visited 21/08/2013)
Vollmer, R., Ardakanian R., Hare, M., Leentvaar, J., van der Schaaf, C.,& Wirkus, L., UNESCO – WWAP,
(2009) Institutional Capacity Development in Transboundary Water Management
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/media-services/singleview/news/institutional_capacity_development_in_transboundary_water_management/#.UhS9TW1G
Mw0 (last visited 21/08/2013)
White & Case, GEF, UNDP (2011) International Waters: Review of Legal and Institutional Frameworks
http://iwlearn.net/iw-projects/3340/reports/international-waters-review-of-legal-and-institutionalframeworks/view (last visited 21/08/2013)
WWF & DFID (2010) International Architecture for Transboundary Water Resources Management: Policy
Analysis and Recommendations
http://www.wwf.org.uk/wwf_articles.cfm?unewsid=5091
Wouters,P., Vinogradov, S., Allan, A., Jone, P., Rieu-Clarke, A., (2005) An Integrated Assessment of
Equitable Entitlement : The Legal Assessment Model, UNESCO, Paris
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0013/001397/139794e.pdf
Wouters, P., GWP (2013), International Law–Facilitating Transboundary Water Cooperation
http://www.gwptoolbox.org/images/stories/gwplibrary/background/tec_17_final_final.pdf (last visited
21/08/2013)
Specific basins
International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (2006) 15 Years of Managing The
Danube River Basin, Vienna, Austria
http://www.icpdr.org/main/publications/15-years-managing-danube-basin (last visited 22/08/2013)
McIntyre, O. (2008) Enhancing Transboundary Cooperation in Water Management in the Prespa Lakes
Basin (Greece, FYR Macedonia, Albania), UNDP
http://iwlearn.net/iw-projects/1537/reports/enhancing-transboundary-cooperation-in-watermanagement-in-the-prespa-lakes-basin/view (last visited 3/09/2013)
Strategic Foresight Group, (2011), The Blue Peace - Rethinking Middle East Water
http://www.deza.admin.ch/en/Home/News/Close_up?itemID=198455 (last visited 30/08/2013)
Yu W. (2008) Benefit Sharing in International Rivers: Findings from the Senegal River Basin, the Columbia
River Basin and the Lesotho Highlands Water Project, The World Bank, Africa Region
http://wwwwds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2008/11/13/000334955_200811130
45420/Rendered/PDF/464560NWP0P1121g0AFTWR0YU301PUBLIC1.pdf (last visited 22/08/2013)
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Pietersen, K., & Beekman, H., (2008) A comparative Study of the Linkages between River/Lake Basin
Organizations and the Respective Cooperating National Governments in Seven Major African Basins, GIZ
http://www.icp-confluence-sadc.org/documents?category=14 (last visited 30/08/2013)
UN-ESCWA & BGR (United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia; Bundesanstalt für
Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe) (2013) Inventory of Shared Water Resources in Western Asia, Beirut.
http://waterinventory.org/sites/waterinventory.org/files/00-inventory-of-shared-water-resources-inwestern-asia-web.pdf (last visited 6/09/2013)
Books & Book chapters
General
Benvenisti, E. (2002) Sharing Transboundary Resources: International Law and Optimal Resource Use.
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK
http://www.questia.com/library/105423737/sharing-transboundary-resources-international-law
(last
visited 21/08/2013, free preview)
Benvenisti, E. (2005) The Legal Framework of Joint Management Institutions for Transboundary Water
Resources: Ancient Practices Informing Contemporary Regional Cooperation in Schmitz, P., Water and
Sustainable Development, pp. 21-60
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/plpg/wasd/2005/00000001/00000029/art00003?crawler=tru
e (last visited 21/08/2013, payment required)
Caponera, D.A. (2007) Principles of Water Law and Administration: National and International, Second
Edition. Taylor and Francis, London, UK. (payment required)
Earle, A., Jägerskog, A. & Öjendal, J. (2010) Transboundary Water Management: Principles and Practice,
Earthscan, London, UK
http://books.google.ch/books?id=mrncsakXkwkC&printsec=frontcover&hl=fr&source=gbs_ge_summary
_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false (last visited 21/08/2013, free preview) or
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781849711388/ (last visited 21/08/2013, payment required)
Dinar, A., Dinar, S., Mccaffrey, S., Mckinney, D. (2013) Bridges Over Water: Understanding
Transboundary Water Conflict, Negotiation and Cooperation (Second Edition), World Scientific Series on
Energy and Resource Economics
http://www.amazon.com/Bridges-Over-Water-Understanding-Transboundary/dp/9814436658/
(payment required)
Schmeier, S. (2012) Governing International Watercourses: River Basin Organizations and the
Sustainable Governance of Internationally Shared Rivers and Lakes, Routledge
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415623582/ (payment required)
http://books.google.ch/books?id=96tuXYuUpMcC (free preview)
Specific basins
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Benvenisti, E. (2001) The Legal Framework of Joint Management Institutions for Transboundary Water
Resources, in Feitelson, E. & Haddad, M., Management of Shared Groundwater Resources: The IsraeliPalestinian Case with an International Perspective, Kluwer Academic, Boston/Dordrecht/London, pp.
407-428.
http://www.springer.com/earth+sciences+and+geography/hydrogeology/book/978-0-7923-7254-7 (last
visited 21/08/2013, free preview)
del Castillo-Laborde, L. (2013) The Guaraní Aquifer Framework Agreement (2010), in Boisson de
Chazournes, L., Leb, C., Tignino, M., International Law And Freshwater - The Multiple Challenges, Ed.
Edward Elgar, pp. 196-216
http://books.google.ch/books?id=I5KeRxIEUYC&printsec=frontcover&hl=fr&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false (last
visited 30/08/2013, free preview)
de los Cobos, G. (2013) Transboundary Water Resources and International Law: The Example of the
Aquifer Management of the Geneva Region (Switzerland and France) in Boisson de Chazournes, L., Leb,
C., Tignino, M., International Law And Freshwater - The Multiple Challenges, Ed. Edward Elgar, pp. 179195
http://books.google.ch/books?id=I5KeRxIEUYC&printsec=frontcover&hl=fr&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false (last
visited 30/08/2013, free preview)
Mbengue, M. (2013) The Senegal River Legal Regime and its Contribution to the Development of the
Law of International Watercourses in Africa in Boisson de Chazournes, L., Leb, C., Tignino, M.,
International Law And Freshwater - The Multiple Challenges, Ed. Edward Elgar, pp. 217-238
http://books.google.ch/books?id=I5KeRxIEUYC&printsec=frontcover&hl=fr&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false (last
visited 30/08/2013, free preview)
Paisley, R. & Shurts, J. (2013) Columbia River Treaty: Past, Present and Future, in Bakker, Karen, Emma
Norman and Alice Cohen, Water Without Borders? : Canada, the U.S. and Shared Water. University of
Toronto Press
http://www.utppublishing.com/Water-without-Borders-Canada-the-United-States-and-SharedWaters.html (last visited 30/08/2013, payment required)
Megdal, S. Varady, R. & Eden, S. (2012) Section 1: Water development: Infrastructure and institutions, in
Shared Borders, Shared Waters: Israeli-Palestinian and Colorado River Basin Water Challenges, CRC Press
http://books.google.ch/books?id=ggnP_cgaDkEC&printsec=frontcover&hl=fr#v=onepage&q&f=false
(last visited 4/09/2013, free preview)
Articles, Journals, Brochures, Reports
General
Boisson de Chazournes, L. (2009) Freshwater and International Law: the Interplay between Universal,
Regional and Basin Perspectives. WWAP Side Publications Series: Insights. UNESCO, Paris, France.
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001850/185080e.pdf (last visited 30/08/2013)
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Gerlak, Andrea (2007) Regional Water Governance and Institutional Arrangements around
Transboundary Waters, University of Arizona.
http://citation.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/1/7/9/0/2/pages179029/p1790291.php (last visited 21/08/2013)
Lautze, J., Wegerich, K., Kazbekov, J., & Yakubov, M. (2013) International river basin organizations:
variation, options and insights, in Water International Vol. 38, Issue 1 pp 30-42
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02508060.2013.747418#preview
(last
visited
29/08/2013, payment required)
UNW-DPAC (2013) Promoting Water Cooperation: Legal frameworks and institutional arrangements,
Information brief
http://www.zaragoza.es/contenidos/medioambiente/onu/947-eng.pdf (last visited 21/08/2013)
UNW-DPAC (2013) Alternative Dispute Resolution, Information brief
http://www.un.org/waterforlifedecade/water_cooperation_2013/pdf/info_brief_alternative_dispute.p
df (last visited 3/09/2013)
UNW-DPAC (2013) Information Sharing and Joint Assessments, Information brief
http://www.un.org/waterforlifedecade/water_cooperation_2013/pdf/info_brief_information_sharing.p
df (last visited 3/09/2013)
Specific basins
Abseno, M. (2013) The influence of the UN Watercourses Convention on the development of a treaty
regime in the Nile River basin, in Water International Vol. 38, Issue 2, pp. 192-203
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02508060.2013.782798?journalCode=rwin20#.Uib4T8mZv5 (last visited 30/08/2013, payment required)
Andersen, I., Dione, O., Jarosewich-Holder, M., & Olivry, J. (2005) The Niger River basin: a vision for
sustainable management: directions in development, Washington, D.C.: The World Bank (Chapter 4)
http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/01/6462671/niger-river-basin-vision-sustainablemanagement (last visited 21/08/2013)
Azarva, J. (2011) Conflict on the Nile : International Watercourse Law and the Elusive Effort to Create a
Transboundary Water Regime in the Nile Basin, in Temple Int'l & Comp. Law Journal, Vol. 25(2), pp. 457498
https://litigationessentials.lexisnexis.com/webcd/app?action=DocumentDisplay&crawlid=1&doctype=cite&docid=25+Te
mp.+Int%27l+%26+Comp.+L.J.+457&srctype=smi&srcid=3B15&key=b299fdc81a3103851f32e18ba43b2c
eb (payment required)
Browder, G. (2000) An analysis of the negotiations for the 1995 Mekong agreement. International
Negotiation Vol. 5, Num. 2, pp. 237-261.
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/mnp/iner/2000/00000005/00000002/00279024
(payment
required)
Bernauer, T. & Siegfried, T. (2006) Estimating the performance of international regulatory regimes:
methodology and empirical application to international water management in the Naryn Syr Darya
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basin. ETH Zurich, Centre for Comparative and International Studies and Centre for Environmental
Decisions. No 16
http://www.cis.ethz.ch/publications/WP_16_Bernauer.pdf (last visited 21/08/2013)
Chen, H., Rieu-Clarke, A. & Wouters, P. (2013) Exploring China's transboundary water treaty practice
through the prism of the UN Watercourses Convention, in Water International Vol. 38, Issue 2 pp 217230
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02508060.2013.782134#.UibwsT8mZv5 (last visited
4/09/2013)
Eckstein, G. (2011) Buried Treasure or Buried Hope?: The Status of Mexico-U.S. Transboundary Aquifers
and International Law, International Community Law Review, Vol. 13(3), pp. 273-290
http://www.internationalwaterlaw.org/bibliography/articles/Eckstein-Mex-US_ICLR.pdf (last visited
4/09/2013)
Garane, A. (2008) UN Watercourses Convention: Applicability and Relevance in West Africa, WWF, GWP,
Green Cross, IHP HELP
http://internationalwaterlaw.org/bibliography/WWF/RA_West_Africa.pdf (last visited 4/09/2013)
French version: http://internationalwaterlaw.org/bibliography/WWF/RA_West_Africa.pdf
Hey, E. (2009) Multi-dimensional Public Governance Arrangements for the Protection of the
Transboundary Aquatic Environment in the European Union: The Changing Interplay between European
and Public International Law 6(1) International Organization Law Review 2009, pp. 191-223
http://brill.publisher.ingentaconnect.com/content/mnp/iolr/2009/00000006/00000001/art00005 (last
visited 4/09/2013)
McIntyre, O. (2011) Assessment of Implications for Management of Cross-Border Waters of United
Kingdom Accession to the U.N. Watercourses Convention. WWF-UK
http://assets.wwf.org.uk/downloads/implications_watercourses_convention.pdf
(last
visited
4/09/2013)
Malzbender, D. & Earle, A. (2008) The Impact and Implications of the Adoption of the 1997 UN
Watercourse Convention for Countries in Southern Africa, WWF, GWP
http://internationalwaterlaw.org/bibliography/WWF/RA_SADC_states.pdf (last visited 3/09/2013)
Rahaman M. (2009) Principles of transboundary water resources management and Ganges treaties: an
analysis. Water Resources Development Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 159–173
http://internationalwaterlaw.org/bibliography/articles/general/Rahaman-Ganges-Water_Res_Devel.pdf
(last visited 22/08/2013)
Paisley, R. & Henshaw, T. (2013) Transboundary governance of the Nile River Basin: Past, present and
future, in Environmental Development, Vol. 7, pp. 59-71
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211464513000614 (last visited 4/09/2013)
Sarfraz, H. (2013) Revisiting the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty, in Water International Vol. 38, Issue 2 pp 214216
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02508060.2013.784494#.UiCgkT8mZv4 (last visited
30/08/2013, payment required)
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Websites
CapNet, an international network for capacity building in IWRM:
www.cap-net.org (last visited 20/08/2013)
Global Water Partnership:
www.gwpforum.org (last visited 21/08/2013)
GWP Toolbox: Integrated Water Resources Management:
www.gwptoolbox.org
Transboundary organisations for water resource management (see Related cases)
http://www.gwptoolbox.org/index.php?option=com_tool&id=10
IHP-HELP Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science
www.dundee.ac.uk/water (last visited 22/08/2013)
International Network of Basin Organizations:
www.inbo-news.org (last visited 20/08/2013)
Central and Eastern Europe Network of Basin Organisations:
www.ceenbo.org (last visited 20/08/2013)
Latin American Network of Basin Organisations:
www.ana.gov.br/relob/?lang=es and www.rebob.org.br (last visited 20/08/2013)
Mediterranean Network of Basin Organisations:
www.remoc.org (last visited 20/08/2013)
Network of Asian River Basin Organisations:
www.narbo.jp (last visited 20/08/2013)
International Office for Water
www.oieau.fr/?lang=en (last visited 20/08/2013)
IUCN Bridge
www.iucn.org/about/union/donors/?11373/BRIDGE-project-Planning-for-2013
IUCN Water Law and Governance Platform
www.waterlawandgovernance.org
IUCN Environmental Law Centre
www.iucn.org/about/work/programmes/environmental_law
UNECE
www.unece.org/env/water.html (last visited 22/08/2013)
UNESCO IHP From Potential Conflict to Co-operation Potential (PCCP): Case studies
http://webworld.unesco.org/water/wwap/pccp/pubs/case_studies.shtml (last visited 22/08/2013)
UN Watercourses Convention Online User’s Guide
http://www.unwatercoursesconvention.org/ (last visited 30/08/2013)
World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP)
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/natural-sciences/environment/water/wwap/case-studies/ (last visited
30/08/2013)
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Regional and national research programmes network on IWRM:
www.iwrm-net.org (last visited 20/08/2013)
Program in Water Conflict Management and Transformation, Oregon State University
www.transboundarywaters.orst.edu (last visited 22/08/2013)
Atlas of International Freshwater Agreements
http://www.transboundarywaters.orst.edu/publications/atlas/index.html
International Freshwater Treaties Database
http://www.transboundarywaters.orst.edu/database/interfreshtreatdata.html
International River Basin Register
http://www.transboundarywaters.orst.edu/database/interriverbasinreg.html
International River Basin Organization (RBO) Database
http://www.transboundarywaters.orst.edu/research/RBO/index.html
Case Studies - Water Conflict Resolution
http://www.transboundarywaters.orst.edu/research/case_studies/index.html \
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List of web-sites of River Basin Commissions and Other Joint Bodies
Organisation
Countries
Inco-Maputo Tripartite
Permanent Technical Committee
Mozambique, South Africa,
Swaziland
Cameroun, Central African
Republic, Congo, Congo, D.R.
Congo
International Commission of
Congo-Oubangui-Sangha
Website
Region
http://www.icp-confluence-sadc.org/rbo/120
Africa
http://www.cicos.info/
Africa
Joint Authority for the
Management of the Nubian
Sandstone Aquifer System
Chad, Egypt, Libya, Sudan
http://www-naweb.iaea.org/napc/ih/IHS_projects_nubian_efforts.html
Africa
Kunene Permanent Joint
Technical Commission
Angola, Namibia
http://www.kunenerak.com/
http://www.icp-confluence-sadc.org/rbo/63
Africa
Cameroon, Central African
Republic, Chad, Niger, Nigeria
Burundi, D.R. Congo, Tanzania,
Zambia
Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania,
Uganda
http://www.lakechadbc.org/
http://lakechad.iwlearn.org
Africa
http://lta.iwlearn.org/
Africa
http://www.lvbcom.org/
Africa
Lesotho, South Africa
http://www.lhwp.org.ls/
Africa
Botswana, Mozambique, South
Africa, Zimbabwe
Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon,
Chad, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea,
Mali, Niger, Nigeria
Burundi, DR Congo, Egypt,
Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan,
Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda
http://www.limcom.org/
http://www.icp-confluence-sadc.org/rbo/60
Africa
http://www.abn.ne/
Africa
http://www.nilebasin.org/
Africa
Lake Chad Basin Commission
Lake Tanganyika Authority
Lake Victoria Basin Commission
Lesotho Highlands Development
Authority
Limpopo Water Course
Commission
Niger Basin Authority
Nile Basin Initiative
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Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa
http://www.orasecom.org
http://www.icp-confluence-sadc.org/rbo/62
Africa
Angola, Botswana, Namibia
http://www.okacom.org/
Africa
Mozambique, Tanzania
http://www.icp-confluence-sadc.org/rbo/65
Africa
www.oss-online.org
Africa
http://www.omvs.org
Africa
Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte
d'Ivoire, Ghana, Mali, Togo
Angola, Botswana, Malawi,
Mozambique, Namibia,
Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe
www.abv-volta.org/
http://gefvolta.iwlearn.org/
Africa
http://www.zambezicommission.org/
Africa
Indo-Bangladesh Joint Rivers
Commission
India, Bangladesh
http://www.jrcb.gov.bd/index.html
Asia
Mekong River Commission
Cambodia, Lao People's
Democratic Republic, Thailand,
Viet Nam
http://www.mrcmekong.org/
Asia
Orange-Senqu River Commission
Permanent Okavango River
Basin Water Commission
Ruvuma Joint Water
Commission
Sahara and Sahel Observatory
Senegal River Basin
Development Organisation
Volta Basin Authority
Zambezi Watercourse
Commission
Algeria, Burkina Faso, Canada,
Cape Verde, Chad, Djibouti,
Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, France,
Gambia, Germany, Guinea
Bissau, Ivory Coast, Italy, Kenya,
Libya, Mali, Morocco,
Mauritania, Niger, Senegal,
Somalia, Soudan, Switzerland,
Tunisia, Uganda – AMU, CARI,
CILSS, CEN-SAD, FAO, IGAD,
LCBC,UNCCD, UNESCO
Guinea, Mali, Mauritania,
Senegal
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Commission for the
Implementation and the
Development of the Albufeira
Convention
Portugal, Spain
http://portaldaagua.inag.pt/PT/SectorAgua/Europa/Convencoes/Pages/d
efault.aspx
http://www.cadc-albufeira.org/ (not working)
ECE
Commission on the Use of
Water Management Facilities of
Intergovernmental Status on the
Rivers Chu and Talas
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan
http://www.talaschu.org/
ECE
Drin Core Group - Global Water
Partnership-Mediterranean
(GWP-Med)
Albania, Greece, FYR
Macedonia, Kosovo (UN
administered), Montenegro
http://www.twrm-med.net/southeastern-europe/supported-processes-andprojects/drin-river-basin
ECE
Finnish-Norwegian
Transboundary Water
Commission
Finland, Norway
http://www.ymparisto.fi/default.asp?contentid=118334&lan=en
ECE
International Commission for
the Meuse/Maas
Belgium (Brussels-Capital region,
Flemish region, Walloon region),
http://www.meuse-maas.be/
France, Germany, Luxembourg,
Netherlands
ECE
Italy, Switzerland
http://www.cipais.org/
ECE
Austria, Germany (BadenWurttemberg, Bavaria),
Switzerland
http://www.igkb.de/
ECE
France, Switzerland
http://www.cipel.org/sp/
ECE
International Commission for
the Protection of Italo-Swiss
Waters
International Commission for
the Protection of Lake
Constance
International Commission for
the Protection of Lake Geneva
International Commission for
the Protection of the Danube
River
Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech
http://www.icpdr.org/
Republic, Germany, Hungary,
Moldova, Romania, Slovakia,
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Slovenia, Serbia, Ukraine,
European Union
International Commission for
the Protection of the Elbe
International Commission for
the Protection of the Oder
against Pollution
Germany, Czech Republic
http://www.ikse-mkol.de/
ECE
Germany, Czech Republic,
Poland
http://www.mkoo.pl/
ECE
Germany, France, Luxembourg,
the Netherlands, Switzerland,
http://www.iksr.org/
European Union
Belgium (Brussels-Capital region,
International Commission for
Flemish region, Walloon region), http://www.isc-cie.com/
the Scheldt
France, Netherlands
International Commissions for
For Mosel: France, Germany,
http://www.iksms-cipms.org
the Protection of Mosel and Saar and Luxembourg.
For Saar: France, Germany
Against Pollution
International Commission for
the Protection of the Rhine
Ems estuary
International Fund for Saving the
Aral Sea
International Sava River Basin
Commission
Interstate Commission for Water
Coordination of Central Asia
Joint Finnish-Russian
Commission on the Utilization of
Frontier Waters
Germany, Netherlands
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
Tajikistan, Turkmenistan,
Uzbekistan
Croatia, Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Serbia, Slovenia
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
Tajikistan, Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Finland, Russian Federation
ECE
ECE
ECE
http://www.ems-eems.de/
ECE
http://www.ec-ifas.org/
ECE
http://www.savacommission.org/
ECE
http://www.icwc-aral.uz/
ECE
http://www.rajavesikomissio.fi/
ECE
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Administrative Commission for
the Uruguay River
Argentine, Uruguay
http://www.caru.org.uy
LAC
Amazon Cooperation Treaty
Organization
Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia,
Ecuador, Guyana, Peru,
Suriname, Venezuela
http://www.otca.info/
LAC
Bolivia, Peru
http://www.alt-perubolivia.org
LAC
Argentina, Bolivia
http://www.cobinabe.org
LAC
Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil,
Paraguay, Uruguay
http://www.cicplata.org/
LAC
Mexico, Guatemala, and
Mexico, Belize
http://www.sre.gob.mx/cilasur/
LAC
Argentine, Paraguay
http://www.comip.org.ar
LAC
Argentina, Uruguay
http://www.saltogrande.org/
LAC
Great Lakes Commission
Eight States of the United
States. Associate members:
Ontario and Quebec
http://www.glc.org/
North
America
International Boundary and
Water Commission between
United States and Mexico
Mexico, United States
http://www.ibwc.state.gov/ http://www.sre.gob.mx/cilanorte/
North
America
International Joint Commission
Canada, United States
http://www.ijc.org/
North
America
Bi-National Authority of Lake
Titicaca
Bi-national Commission for the
Development of the upper
Bermejo River and Grande de
Tarija River Basins
Intergovernmental Coordinating
Committee of La Plata Basin
Countries
International Commission on
Boundary and Water between
Mexico and Guatemala, and
Mexico and Belize
Joint Commission of the Parana
River
Mixed Technical Commission of
Salto Grande
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