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ContentsAcknowledgements ............................................................................3Foreword by Irina Bokova, Director-General, United NationsEducational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ..............................4Preface by Michel Jarraud, Chair of UN-Water andSecretary-General, World Meteorological Organization (WMO) .........5Statement by Mr János Áder, President of the Republic of Hungary .10Statement by Mr Emomali Rahmon, President of theRepublic of Tajikistan .....................................................................11Water security through science-based cooperation: UNESCO’sInternational Hydrological Programme ...........................................12Blanca Jiménez-Cisneros, Alexander Otte, Miguel de França Doria, GiuseppeArduino, Léna Salamé, Siegfried Demuth, Anil Mishra, Alice AureliIWATER DIPLOMACYTransboundary water cooperation ....................................................20Nick Bonvoisin, Secretary to the Convention on the Protection and Use ofTransboundary Waters and International Lakes, and Co-Secretary to its Protocol onWater and Health, United Nations Economic Commission for EuropeGreater cooperation through water diplomacy and transboundarywater management ..........................................................................24Julia Marton-Lefèvre, Patrick MacQuarrie, Alejandro Iza and Mark Smith,International Union for Conservation of NatureFrom the Dead Sea to an Israel/Palestine Water Accord:20 years of water diplomacy in the Middle East ...............................28Gidon Bromberg, Nader Khateeb and Munqeth Mehyar, Co-Directors, EcoPeace/Friends of the Earth Middle EastTransboundary water diplomacy in the Mekong region ...................31Dr John Dore, Senior Regional Water Resources Sector Specialist, Australian Agencyfor International Development, Laos; and Dr Louis Lebel, Director, Unit for Socialand Environmental Research, Chiang Mai University, ThailandThe Nile Basin Initiative: advancing transboundary cooperationand supporting riparian communities ..............................................35Abdulkarim H. Seid, Wubalem Fekade, Emmanuel Olet, Nile Basin InitiativeIITRANSBOUNDARY WATER MANAGEMENTCooperation over transboundary aquifers: lessons learnedfrom 10 years of experience ............................................................40Kirstin I. Conti, PhD Fellow, International Groundwater Resources Assessment CentreSustaining transboundary water management by investing incommunity cooperation ..................................................................45Benjamin Noury, Associate Director, Oxyo WaterTransboundary water management – why it is important andwhy it needs to be developed ..........................................................49Anders Jägerskog, Stockholm International Water Institute and United NationsDevelopment Programme Shared Waters PartnershipCooperation on small rivers can make a difference ..........................53Jeff Smith for the International Water Management InstituteEfficient and effective cooperation in the River Rhine catchment .....57Dr J. Cullman, Federal Institute of Hydrology, Germany and Chairperson of UNESCOInternational Hydrology Programme; Eric Sprokkereef and Ute Menke, Ministry ofInfrastructure and Environment, Rijkswaterstaat-CHR Secretariat, The NetherlandsSharing water in Australia: a collaborative endeavour ......................61James Cameron, CEO, National Water Commission, AustraliaRegional water cooperation in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region ...65Arun B. Shrestha, Shahriar M. Wahid, Ramesh A. Vaidya, Mandira S. Shrestha andDavid J. Molden, International Centre for Integrated Mountain DevelopmentThe Mekong River Basin: practical experiences in transboundarywater management ..........................................................................70Hans Guttman, Chief Executive Officer, Mekong River Commission SecretariatParticipation in the management of the Niger, Senegal and Congoriver basins ......................................................................................74Christophe Brachet and Daniel Valensuela, Deputy Secretaries, International Networkof Basin OrganizationsThe Murray–Darling Basin Plan: cooperation in transboundarywater management .........................................................................77Kerryn Molloy, Senior Science Writer, Murray–Darling Basin AuthorityMankind on the shores of the Baikal: the transboundary ecosystemof Russia and Mongolia ...................................................................81E. I. Lishtovannii and A. N. Matveev, Irkutsk State University, Russia; B. Bayartogtokh,Mongolian State University; and T. Villemin, University of Savoie, FranceLibya’s experience in the management of transboundary aquifers ....85Omar Salem, Senior Hydrogeologist, General Water Authority – Ministry of WaterResources, LibyaTransboundary groundwater resources management implementedin the Kumamoto region of Japan ...................................................88Tadashi Tanaka, Department of International Affairs, University of Tsukuba, JapanTransboundary water management in the Zambezi and Congoriver basins: a situation analysis .......................................................92Ngosa Howard Mpamba, Assistant Director, Water Resources Management andChristopher Chileshe, Director, Ministry of Mines, Energy and Water Development,Department of Water Affairs, ZambiaInteractive open source information systems for fosteringtransboundary water cooperation ....................................................96J. Ganoulis, Coordinator and Ch. Skoulikaris, Secretary, United NationsEducational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Chair/International Network ofWater-Environment Centres for the Balkans[ 6 ]