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The two Working Groups collaborate closely through cooperation on a number of joint activities. They hold one ordinary meeting per year. 1. Working Group on Integrated Water Resources Management The focus of this Group are the intersectoral activities related to the integrated management of transboundary water resources. Activities tend to ...
The human right to water and sanitation ( HRWS) is a principle stating that clean drinking water and sanitation are a universal human right because of their high importance in sustaining every person's life. [ 1] It was recognized as a human right by the United Nations General Assembly on 28 July 2010. [ 2]
Water conflict typically refers to violence or disputes associated with access to, or control of, water resources, or the use of water or water systems as weapons or casualties of conflicts. The term water war is colloquially used in media for some disputes over water, and often is more limited to describing a conflict between countries, states ...
Misc. Environment portal. Ecology portal. v. t. e. The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal, usually known as the Basel Convention, is an international treaty that was designed to reduce the movements of hazardous waste between nations, and specifically to restrict the transfer of ...
The International Law Commission (ILC) was requested by the United Nations in 1970 to prepare viable international guidelines for water use comparable to The Helsinki Rules on the Uses of the Waters of International Rivers, which had been approved by the International Law Association in 1966 but which failed to address aquifers that were not connected to a drainage basin.
2. The hydrology of the basin, including in particular the contribution of water by each basin State 3. The climate affecting the basin 4. The past utilization of the waters of the basin, including in particular existing utilization 5. The economic and social needs of each basin State 6.
The Southeast Asian haze is a fire-related recurrent transboundary air pollution issue. Haze events, where air quality reaches hazardous levels due to high concentrations of airborne particulate matter from burning biomass, [1] have caused adverse health, environmental and economic impacts in several countries in Southeast Asia.
The Rhine Basin holds a population of 48,831,090 people that require water for irrigation, livestock, electricity, manufacturing, domestic, and per Capita use. [4] Total water withdrawals are highest for Germany, Netherlands, and France in that order with 100 percent of their population living in urban city centers.