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Notes and ReferencesI.Water DiplomacyTransboundary water cooperationThe author thanks colleagues in the UNECE Water Team: Sonja Koeppel, IuliaTrombitcaia, Alisher Mamadzhanov, Chantal Demilecamps and others.Greater cooperation through water diplomacy and transboundary water managementIn addition to the authors, we are grateful for contributions from Claire Warmenboland Rebecca Welling from the Global Water Programme, IUCN.From the Dead Sea to an Israel/Palestine Water Accord: 20 years of waterdiplomacy in the Middle East1. UNESCO Makes the Case for Water Diplomacy – Press Release from the UNESCOWebsite, 25/4/2012: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/media-services/single-view/news/unesco_makes_the_case_for_water_diplomacy/. Accessed 15/07/2013.2. Lawrence Susskind, Shafiqul Islam. ‘Water Diplomacy: Creating Value andBuilding Trust in Trans Boundary Water Negotiations’, in: Science andDiplomacy, Vol. 1, No. 3 (September 2012).For more information visit www.foeme.org.Transboundary water diplomacy in the Mekong regionFor further Mekong reading, from which this chapter is drawn, see:- Dore J and Lazarus K (2009) ‘Demarginalizing the Mekong River Commission’ inF Molle, T Foran and M Käkönen (eds.) Contested Waterscapes in the MekongRegion: Hydropower, Livelihoods and Governance. Earthscan, London, 357-382.- Dore J and Lebel L (2010) ‘Deliberation and scale in Mekong Region watergovernance’, Environmental Management 46:1, 60-80.- Dore J, Lebel L and Molle F (2012) ‘A framework for analyzing transboundarywater governance complexes, illustrated in the Mekong Region’, Journal ofHydrology 466-467, 23-36.- ICEM (2010) MRC Strategic Environmental Assessment of Hydropower on the MekongMainstream. Produced for Mekong River Commission by ICEM (International Centrefor Environmental Management). http://www.mrcmekong.org/ish/SEA.htm.- M-POWER (2011) M-POWER Strategic Guide 2011: Action-researchers, dialoguefacilitators, knowledge brokers. Mekong Program on Water Environment andResilience, Vientiane, 15. www.mpowernetwork.org.- Save the Mekong coalition: www.savethemekong.org.The Nile Basin Initiative: Advancing transboundary cooperation and supportingriparian communities1. NBI Shared Vision reads: “To achieve sustainable socioeconomic development throughthe equitable utilization of and benefit from the common Nile Basin Water resources”.II.Transboundary Water ManagementCooperation over transboundary aquifers: lessons learned from 10 years of experienceKirstin Conti is a PhD Research Fellow with the Amsterdam Institute of Social ScienceResearch at University of Amsterdam and the International Groundwater ResourcesAssessment Centre (IGRAC).Transboundary water management – why it is important and why it needs tobe developedThis paper is based on and has partly been published as the background paperprepared by Anders Jägerskog as part of UNDP Shared Waters Partnership Programmework for the Ministerial Roundtable on Transboundary Waters at the World WaterForum in Marseille, France, 13 March 2012.1. www.unwater.org/water-cooperation-2013/water-cooperation/facts-and-figures/en.2. UNDP (2006), ‘Beyond scarcity: Power, poverty and the global water crisis’,Human Development Report (NY: UNDP).3. Phillips, D.J.H., M. Daoudy, J. Öjendal, S. McCaffrey and A.R. Turton. (2006).Trans-boundary Water Cooperation as a Tool for Conflict Prevention and BroaderBenefit-Sharing. Stockholm: Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs.4. Earle, A., Jägerskog, A. and Öjendal J., Eds., (2010) Transboundary WaterManagement: Principles and Practice. Earthscan, London (July 2010).5. Zeitoun, M and Jägerskog, A. (2011), Addressing Power Asymmetry: HowTransboundary Water Management May Serve to Reduce Poverty, Report Nr 29,SIWI, Stockholm.6. Zeitoun, M, and N. Mirumachi (2008) ‘Transboundary water interaction 1.Reconsidering conflict and cooperation’. International Environmental Agreements8: 297-316.7. Granit, J. and Claasen, M (2009) ‘A path towards realising tangible benefitsin transboundary river basins’, in Jägerskog, A and Zeitoun, M. GettingTransboundary Water Right: Theory and Practice for Effective Cooperation,Report Nr 25, SIWI, Stockholm.8. Zeitoun and Mirumachi (2008) op. cit.9. Earle, A. et al (2010) op. cit.10. Zeitoun and Mirumachi (2008) op. cit.11. Zeitoun, M and Jägerskog, A. (2011) op. cit.12. Falkenmark M., and Jägerskog, A., (2010) ‘Sustainability of Transnational WaterAgreements in the Face of Socio-Economic and Environmental Change’ in Earle,A., Jägerskog, A. and Öjendal, Eds., (2010) Transboundary Water Management:Principles and Practice. Earthscan, London (July 2010).13. Cotula, L. (2011), Land deals in Africa: What is in the contracts?, (London: IIED).14. Jägerskog, A., Cascao, A., Hårsmar, M. and Kim. K., (2012), Land Acquisitions:How Will They Impact Transboundary Waters? Report Nr. 30, SIWI, Stockholm.15. Allan, J.A (2011), Virtual Water: Tackling the Threat to Our Planet’s Most PreciousResource (London: I.B.Tauris).16. Mekong 2 Rio Message: www.mrcmekong.org/assets/Events/Mekong2Rio/Final-Mekong2Rio-Message.pdf.17. Nicol, A., van Steenbergen, F. et al., Transboundary Water Management as anInternational Public Good, Development Financing 2000 Study 2001:1 (Stockholm:for the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, 2001).18. Jägerskog, 2003.19. Jägerskog, 2003.20. Phillips, D.J.H., M. Daoudy, J. Öjendal, S. McCaffrey and A.R. Turton. (2006) op. cit.21. Jägerskog, 2007.22. Öjendal J., Earle, A. and Jägerskog, A. (2010), ‘Towards an ConceptualFramework for Transboundary Water Management’ in Earle, A., Jägerskog, A. andÖjendal, Eds., (2010) Transboundary Water Management: Principles and Practice.Earthscan, London (July 2010).Further reading:- Zeitoun, M. and Jägerskog, A. (2009) ‘Confronting Power: Strategies to SupportLess Powerful States’ in Jägerskog. A, and Zeitoun, M. (editors, 2009) GettingTransboundary Water Right: Theory and Practice for Effective Cooperation. Report Nr.25. SIWI, Stockholm.Cooperation on small rivers can make a difference1. IWMI: www.iwmi.cgiar.org.2. Regional Program for Sustainable Agricultural Development in Central Asia andthe Caucasus: http://cac-program.org/news.asp?id=257.3. CGIAR research centres: www.cgiar.org/cgiar-consortium/research-centers.4. IWMI in Central Asia: http://centralasia.iwmi.org.5. Oregon State University, International Freshwater Treaties Database: www.transboundarywaters.orst.edu/database/interfreshtreatdata.html.6. Solving a Rubik’s Cube: Water and security in Central Asia: www.iwmi.cgiar.org/News_Room/Archives/Water_and_Security_in_Central_Asia.7. www.transboundarywaters.orst.edu/database/interfreshtreatdata.html.Efficient and effective cooperation in the River Rhine catchment1. CHR is a permanent, autonomous international commission, registered as afoundation in the Netherlands. Its presidency alternates between the member states.In 2012, Professor Hans Moser of the Federal Institute of Hydrology in Koblenz,Germany, took over the presidency from Professor Manfred Spreafico of Switzerland,who had been President for 22 years. The CHR secretariat is permanently financedand hosted by the Netherlands and is carried out by Rijkswaterstaat in Lelystad.Each member state is represented by one official representative from a nationalhydrological institute. If desired, each country can delegate other representatives,for example from research institutes. CHR members meet twice a year to discussselected themes in detail, with the venue alternating between member states. Thesecretary of the International Commission for the Protection of the River Rhine(ICPR) and a WMO representative are invited to attend the meetings as observers,and CHR members take part in ICPR working or expert groups. Please contact theCHR secretariat for further information: info@chr-khr.org.2. From Jörg Uwe Belz, The discharge regime of the Rhine and its tributaries inthe 20th century – Analysis, Changes, Trends: http://www.khr-chr.org/files/Extended_Abstract_I_22_E.pdf.3. UNESCO-IHP report at: http://www.irtces.org/isi/isi_document/coming_event_ISI_LAC.pdf.4. The United Nations Environment Programme evaluation report dating fromOctober 2011 is available at: http://www.unep.org/eou/Portals/52/Reports/Bermejo_TE_Final_Report.pdf.[ 328 ]