Rivers Network

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The Indus rises on the Tibetan plateau in the Himalayas and runs down through Pakistan to the Arabian Sea. Along its way it feeds the largest connected irrigation system in the world, covering more than 18 million hectares of farmland. It also powers four major hydropower facilities, upstream of the farming areas. While other countries often have mixed priorities for their water, Pakistan has always been clear. The Indus is for irrigation. Hydropower is a secondary concern...

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The Elbe River, with its length of 1 094 km from the springs in the Krkonose Mountains to the North Sea mouth at Cuxhaven and with its catchment area of 148 268 km2, is the fourth biggest river in Europe; after the Donau (817 000 km2), the Visla (194 112 km2), and the Rhine (183 800 km2). The Elbe River basin spans four countries: its largest parts lie in Germany (65.5 %) and in the Czech Republic (33.7 %), tiny parts lie in Austria (0.6 %) and in Poland (0.2 %).

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Why some conflicts escalate, why some remain intractable, and why we can be optimistic about the future.

Christopher Kuzdas, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States

There is a need to better understand water conflicts at regional scales. Prevailing studies often examine water conflict at broad macro scales, yet the most intense water conflicts occur within sub-national or sub-regional contexts.

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It speaks the language of riffles and babbles, not legal rights and codes, but the Whanganui River, New Zealand’s third largest, has received something no other river in the country – and possibly the world – yet has: a legal voice....

Posted by Sandra Postel of National Geographic's Freshwater Initiative in Water Currents on September 4, 2012

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This article provides an institutional analysis of the Mekong River Commission (MRC) and highlights the institutional dissonance between regional and national decision-making landscapes in the Lower Mekong Basin.

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The Orange-Senqu River basin is located in southern Africa, encompassing all of Lesotho, a large portion of South Africa, southern Namibia and southwestern Botswana. The Orange-Senqu RAK supports capacity development and the sustainable management of the environment and resources within the basin.

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A breakthrough in water resources management occurred in 1961 when President Kennedy and the governors of Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York for the first time signed concurrent compact legislation into law creating a regional body with the force of law to oversee a unified approach to managing a river system without regard to political boundaries...

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Friends of Lake Turkana Trust was established in October 2009 with the objective of strengthening and advancing the environment and natural resources agenda in the Turkana basin. The organization is registered as a Trust and consists of a volunteer Executive Committee, which oversees the everyday functioning of the organization.

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Provide transparent information on water resources is a key for IWRM and water Governance...

This interactive map page provides summary data and links to graphical presentations of river levels and some additional parameters including rainfall from selected telemetered sites throughout Western Australia. Click on "read more" to follow "on line" the Fortescue water level (Neuman Station)and to explore the Fortescue basin on Google Earth...

With the support of Rodrigo Meza López. Posted in LinkedIn Group "riversnetwork.org"

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The project, supported by the governments of Norway and Canada, is part of the inter-agency Environment and Security initiative (ENVSEC) of UNEP, UNDP, OSCE, UNECE, REC, and NATO’s Science for Peace and Security programme.

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Los Consejos de Cuenca propician la concertación de objetivos, metas, estrategias, políticas, programas, proyectos y acciones entre la autoridad federal del agua y los usuarios del agua debidamente acreditados, y grupos y organizaciones diversas de la sociedad.

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El Portal del Consejo de Cuenca del Valle de México es un medio de comunicación abierta con el público en general, es también una herramienta de comunicación interna entre los diversos integrantes del Consejo.

Además, es un espacio de rescate, resguardo y difusión de los documentos, mapas y materiales relacionados con el tema del agua en la Cuenca del Valle de México.

Self-financing, autonomous management corporations were established by the Indonesian government to manage nationally important developed basins, such as the Bengawan Solo.

 

A complementary stakeholder platform, the Water Council of Bengawan Solo, facilitates participatory management in the basin.