The specific objectives of Sava GIS are to provide support and assistance to the Sava Commission and basin countries (Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia) for river basin management planning and all joint activities targeted for the…
The Guadalquivir River Basin Confederation manages a basin of 57,184 km2, and operates 52 reservoirs with a total capacity of nearly 8,000 cubic hectometers, allowing the irrigation of over 700,000 hectares. In the basin, about 3,500 irrigation…
The country possesses numerous quantitative and qualitative data on water resources and uses. However, they are scattered, heterogeneous, and few are accessible in a standardized form as provided by various entities of national/decentralized level…
Models and scientific knowledge converge to predict that by 2050, climate change will generate major hydrological changes and will have significant repercussions on the water management and aquatic environments of the Adour-Garonne basin.
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The Chilean Agroclimatic Observatory is used to create integrated indices, taking into account a number of different drought indicators. The system builds upon the Climate Data Library (CDL), a tool that collects all raw databases relevant to…
The Structured Implementation and Information Framework (SIIF) concept is an ongoing project essentially focused on the organization and management of data in order to enhance the generation of information for policy makers, interested parties and…
In Austria, in recent years, significant investments have been made to achieve high standards in drinking water supply and sanitation. The result is that water pollution has more or less disappeared. Waters are now clean and transparent. All the…
The OECD Initiative on Water Governance is an international multi-stakeholder network of about 100 representatives of public, private and non-profit which meets twice a year in a Public Policy Forum to to share experiences on ongoing reforms,…
The Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes of the Economic Commission for Europe of the United Nations (Convention on the UNECE Water in English UNECE) was adopted Helsinki 17 March 1992. It is the…