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Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes


Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes
 

Publications and presentations

Guidelines, recommendations, background reports and studies

Transboundary Flood Risk Management: Experiences from the UNECE region
pdf

 

ENG    
Guidance on Water and Adaptation to Climate Change

ENG    

Recommendations on Payments for Ecosystem Services in Integrated Water Resources Management

Unofficial Spanish translation

Strategies for monitoring and assessment of transboundary rivers, lakes and groundwaters

 

Transboundary water cooperation in the newly independent States, 2003

UNECE, UNEP/ROE, Ministry for Natural Resources of the Russian Federation, Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, Agency for Environmental Assessments "Ecoterra"

Guidelines on Monitoring and Assessment of Transboundary and International Lakes: UNECE Working Group on Monitoring and Assessment:

Background paper - General properties and monitoring practices of selected transboundary/international lakes, 2002

Part A: Strategy document, 2002

Part B: Technical guidelines, 2003. Russian: Parts A and B, 2004

An inventory of transboundary estuaries and their current monitoring practices


Technical report: Guidance to operation of water quality laboratories, 2002 UNECE Task Force on Laboratory Quality Management and Accreditation


UNECE Task Force on Monitoring and Assessment:
Guidelines on Monitoring and Assessment of Transboundary Rivers

English version, 2000
Russian version, 2001

UNECE Task Force on Monitoring and Assessment:
Biological Assessment Methods for Watercourses


UNECE Task Force on Monitoring and Assessment:
State of the Art on Monitoring and Assessment of Rivers


UNECE Task Force on Monitoring and Assessment:
Quality Assurance


UNECE Task Force on Monitoring and Assessment:
Guidelines on Monitoring and Assessment of Transboundary Groundwater, 2000

 

Guidelines on Sustainable Flood Prevention, 2000

 

Comparing two United Nations Conventions on Water, 2000


Water management: Guidance on public participation and compliance with agreements, 2000


Recommendations to ECE Governments on waste-water treatment, 1988

(ECE/CEP/10)

Recommendations to ECE Governments on the protection of soil and aquifers against non-point source pollution, 1988

(ECE/CEP/10)

Recommendations to ECE Governments on dam safety with particular emphasis on small dams, 1989

(ECE/CEP/10)

Recommendations to ECE Governments on waste-water management, 1991

(ECE/CEP/10)

Recommendations to ECE Governments on the protection of inland waters against eutrophication, 1992

(ECE/CEP/10)

Recommendations to ECE Governments on ecosystems-based water management, 1992

(ECE/CEP/10)

Recommendations to ECE Governments on the five R policies - Reduction, replacement, recovery, recycling and reutilization of industrial products, residues or wastes, 1992

(ECE/CEP/10)

Recommendations to ECE Governments on water quality criteria and objectives

Recommendations to ECE Governments on the prevention of water pollution from hazardous substances, 1994

(ECE/CEP/10)

Guidelines on licensing waste-water discharges from point sources into transboundary waters, 1996

(ECE/CEP/11)

Recommendations to ECE Governments on specific measures to prevent, control and reduce groundwater pollution from chemical storage facilities and waste-disposal sites, 1996

(ECE/CEP/11)

ISARM: Internationally shared (transboundary) aquifer resources management, 2001

(UNESCO-FAO-IAH-UNECE)

Other UNECE Guidelines, recommendations, codes of conduct, charters and decisions related to water, not available on line, are listed below.

Guidelines on water-quality monitoring and assessment of transboundary rivers, 1996

(ECE/CEP/11)

Guidelines for ECE Governments on the prevention and control of water pollution from fertilizers and pesticides in agriculture, 1995

(ECE/CEP/10)

Guidelines on the ecosystem approach in water management, 1993

(ECE/ENVWA/31)

Code of Conduct on Accidental Pollution of Transboundary Inland Waters, 1990

(ECE/ENVWA/16)

Charter on Groundwater Management, 1989

(ECE/ENVWA/12)

Recommendations to ECE Governments on Rational Use of Water in Industrial Processes, 1987

(ECE/ENVWA/2)

Recommendations to ECE Governments on Water-management Systems, 1987

(ECE/ENVWA/2)

ECE Declaration of Policy on the Rational Use of Water, 1984

(ECE/ENVWA/2)

Recommendations to ECE Governments on Drinking Water Supply and Effluent Disposal System, 1982

(ECE/ENVWA/2)

Recommendations to ECE Governments on Water Pollution from Animal Production, 1981

(ECE/ENVWA/2)

Recommendations to ECE Governments on Economic Instruments for Rational Utilization of Water Resources, 1980

(ECE/ENVWA/2)

Recommendations to ECE Governments on Rational Utilization of Water, 1979

(ECE/ENVWA/2)

Recommendations to ECE Governments on Selected Water Problems in Islands and Coastal Areas with special regard to Desalination and Ground Water, 1978

(ECE/ENVWA/2)

Recommendations to ECE Governments on Long-term Planning of Water Management, 1976

(ECE/ENVWA/2)