Lessons from the last 30 years for future water resource management in national and transboundary basins

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1. As stated below, this regional legal instrument, opened for signature by the United Nations/UNECE Member States in 1992, came into force in 1996. It became a global legal framework (i.e., open to all United Nations Member States) for cooperation on transboundary water resources in 2013.

2. Source: Edition No. 4 of the ‘working documents’ of the Technical Advisory Committee of the Global Water Partnership – Global Water Partnership (2000).

3. This includes the importance of hydroelectric dams to produce low-carbon energy with a view to reducing gas emissions and mitigating climate change, and improving environmental impact assessment methodologies.

4. IW:LEARN is the acronym for the International Waters Learning Exchange and Resource Network.

5. Now known as ‘Global Affairs Canada’.

6. Decentralized cooperation refers to relationships, twinning, partnerships, assistance and exchanges of experience between the local communities of a country and the communities, whether or not equivalent, of other countries. For example, in France, since 2005, the Oudin-Santini Law has enabled water authorities, trade unions and agencies to spend up to 1% of their water and sanitation budget to finance international cooperation actions with local authorities in other countries. Other comparable schemes have been implemented in Switzerland (Solidarit’eau), the Netherlands (VitensEvides International) and Italy (local funds such as ‘L’Aqua è di tutti’ in Tuscany, ‘Acqua bene comune’ in Venice and Treviso and ‘Soldarietà a Torino’ in Turin).