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CWC
project: Joint monitoring and assessment of shared water basins, including early warning and alarm systems |
THE WORKSHOP
The Workshop on Joint monitoring and
assessment of shared water basins, including early
warning and alarm systems was held in Tbilisi, Georgia,
from 31 October to 2 November 2005. The Finnish
Environment Institute funded the workshop. The
workshop was prepared in cooperation with the Finnish
Environment Institute, the Ministry of Environment
of Georgia and the Regional
Environmental Centre for the Caucasus.
More than 50 experts from EECCA countries
involved in monitoring and assessment of transboundary
waters, from ministries of environment, ministries
of water, national water committees, national hydrometeorological
institutes, regional cooperation organizations and
NGOS, participated in the workshop (see list
of participants).
The workshop reviewed practices of
monitoring and assessment of transboundary waters
in EECCA, main challenges, specific solutions recently
developed and lessons-learned from international
projects, and identified areas where further progress
is needed (click here
for a summary of the workshop's conclusions).
Furthermore the workshop contributed
to the development of the first Assessment report
on the status of transboundary waters in the UNECE
region, developed under the work programme of the
Water Convention. The Assessment report should be
ready in 2007 for the Belgrade Ministerial Conference
on Environment for Europe and should cover rivers,
lakes and groundwaters, with a special focus on
EECCA and South-Eastern Europe.
The workshop conclusions and recommendations
will be published in early 2006.
BACKGROUND
MATERIAL
| Agenda |
English,
Russian
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| Strategies
for monitoring and assessment of transboundary
rivers, lakes and groundwaters |
English,
Russian
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| UNECE
Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary
Watercourses and International Lakes |
English,
Russian |
| UNECE Guidelines on Monitoring and Assessment of Transboundary Rivers
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English,
Russian
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| UNECE
Guidelines on Monitoring and Assessment of Transboundary
Groundwaters |
English,
Russian
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| UNECE
Guidelines on Monitoring and Assessment of Transboundary
and International Lakes |
Part
A English,
Part
B English,
Parts
A+B Russian |
| UNECE
Technical report: Guidance to operation of water
quality laboratories |
English
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| Biological Assessment Methods for Watercourses, UNECE Task Force on Monitoring and Assessment
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English
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| Quality
assurance, UNECE Task Force on Monitoring and
Assessment |
English
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| Resolution
40 of the 12th WMO Congress on policy and practice
for the exchange of meteorological and related
data and products including guidelines on relationships
in commercial meteorological activities |
English
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| Resolution
25 of the 13th WMO Congress on the exchange
of hydrological data and products |
English
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PRESENTATIONS
| CWC
project objective, outcome of the second workshop
on the Information Management and Public Participation,
and objectives and expectations for this workshop,
Ms. Francesca Bernardini, United Nations
Economic Commission for Europe |
English
(160KB) |
| Transboundary
water management in Armenia, with special focus
on water quality and health related aspects,
Mr. Seyran Minasyan, Ministry of Natural
Resources of Armenia |
Russian
(700KB)
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| Transboundary
water management in Azerbaijan, with special
focus on quantity aspects: the example of the
Samur river, Mr. Azhdar Dzhavadov,
Azerbaijan State Agency of Amelioration and
Water Management |
Russian
(560KB)
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| Joint
river management programme for Kura-Araz rivers
basin, Ms. Marina Makarova, Ministry
of Environment of Georgia |
Russian
(430KB)
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| Strategies
for monitoring and assessment of transboundary
waters, Ms. Sirkka Haunia, Finnish
Environment Institute |
English
(50KB)
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| Recent
trends and main challenges in water monitoring
in the EECCA, the example of the Russian Federation,
Mr. Yuri Tsaturov, Russian Federation
service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental
Monitoring (Roshydromet) |
Russian
(50KB)
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| International
activities for the prevention of hazard in transboundary
river basins, Mr. Gerhard Winkelmann-Oei,
Federal Environment Agency |
English
(5.5 MB)
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| Information
management in the Tisza river basin and the
use of GIS, Ms. Svitlana Rebryk, Transcarpathian
Water Management |
English/Russian
(9.3 MB)
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| The
development of monitoring systems in transboundary
waters of Kazakhstan, Mr. Zhanat Zhilgeldinov,
Kazakhstan Ministry of Environmental Protection |
Russian
(50KB)
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| Water
monitoring systems for the city of Moscow, Ms.
Evgenia Semutnikova, State Environmental
Organization (SEO) Mosecomonitoring |
Russian
(10.5 MB)
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| The
importance of institutions in monitoring and
assessment of transboundary waters: national
coordination and joint bodies, Mr. Ruslan
Meliyan, Apele Moldove |
Russian
(870KB)
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| Data
exchange in Central Asia, the example of Hydromet
cooperation, Mr. Andrey Yakovlev, Uzbekistan
Center for Hydrometeorological Service |
English
(550KB)
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| Early
warning and emergency response in Russian Federation
and neighbouring countries, Mr. Mikhail
Kolomeev, Federal Environmental Emergency
Response Center of Roshydromet |
Russian
(680KB)
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| Achievements
and bottlenecks in monitoring of transboundary
waters in the EECCA, Mr. Evgeny Tyrtsyhny,
Kazakhstan Water Partnership |
Russian
(160KB)
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| Organization
of monitoring and assessment of transboundary
waters shared by Belarus, Ms. Svetlana Utochkina,
Belarus Ministry of Natural Resources |
Russian
(960KB)
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| Joint
assessment: the example from practice between
Finland and the Russian Federation, Ms.
Lea Kauppi and Ms. Sirkka Haunia, Finnish
Environment Institute |
English
(900KB)
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| The
assessment report on the status of transboundary
waters in the UNECE region under the Water Convention,
Ms. Sirkka Haunia, Finnish Environment
Institute |
English
(200KB)
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| The
assessment report: Guidelines to complete the
information data sheet for transboundary rivers,
Ms. Sirkka Haunia, Finnish Environment
Institute |
English
(85KB)
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| CWC
project: Next stop Central Asia, Mr. Bo
Libert, United Nations Economic Commission
for Europe |
English
(60KB) |
WORKSHOP
EVALUATION
Through replies to a questionnaire,
participants assessed the workshop's quality, usefulness
and the degree of achievement of its objectives.
They also provided advices for future CWC workshops
and activities that could be taken up by the Convention's
Working Group on Monitoring and Assessment. The
evaluation
summary is based on 32 questionnaire replies.
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