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ContentsVLEGAL FRAMEWORK AT THE NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL LEVELIntegrated water resource management – combining perspectivesfrom law, policy and science .........................................................172Andrew Allan, Susan Baggett, Michael Bonell, Geoffrey Gooch, Sarah Hendry,Alistair Rieu-Clarke and Chris Spray, Dundee Centre for Water Law, Policy andScience, University of Dundee, ScotlandCommunity benefits achieved through developing legalframeworks at domestic and transboundary levels ........................176Stefano Burchi, Chairman, Executive Council, International Association for Water LawNew approaches to planning and decision-making for fresh water:cooperative water management in New Zealand ............................178Clive Howard-Williams, Chief Scientist, National Institute for Water andAtmospheric Research, Christchurch; Alastair Bisley, Chairman, Land and WaterForum, Ministry for the Environment, and Ken Taylor, Director Investigations andMonitoring, Canterbury Regional Council, New ZealandThe US-Mexico institutional arrangement for transboundarywater governance ..........................................................................182Polioptro F. Martinez-Austria and Luis Ernesto Derbez, University of Las AmericasPuebla, Mexico; and Maria Elena Giner, Border Environment CooperationCommission, Mexico-United StatesVIWATER COOPERATION, SUSTAINABILITYAND POVERTY ERADICATIONManaging water: from local wisdom to modern science .................188Ignasius D. A. Sutapa, Executive Secretary, Asia Pacific Centre for EcohydrologyWater for life: inspiring action and promoting best practicesin local cooperation .......................................................................192Josefina Maestu and Pilar Gonzalez-Meyaui, United Nations Office to Support theInternational Decade for Action ‘Water for Life’ 2005-2015/UN-Water DecadeProgramme on Advocacy and CommunicationInternational water cooperation ....................................................196Kitty van der Heijden, Ambassador, Sustainable Development and Director,Department for Climate, Energy, Environment and Water, Ministry of ForeignAffairs, The NetherlandsCooperating to manage liquid waste in the OkavangoDelta Ramsar Site ..........................................................................199Michael Ramaano, Project Manager, Global Water Partnership BotswanaSecretariat; Nkobi Mpho Moleele, Project Manager, Okavango Research InstituteWater cooperation in Korea ...........................................................203Boosik Kang, Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Dankook Universityand Korea Water Resources AssociationWater expertise and cooperation: Hungary’s international policy ...207Dr Gábor Baranyai, Chair of Organizing Committee, Budapest Water Summit, andDeputy State Secretary, EU Sectoral Policies, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, HungaryAssessment of Lebanon’s shared water resources and the needfor effective cooperation.................................................................211Amin Shaban, Talal Darwich and Mouin Hamze, National Council for ScientificResearch, Beirut, LebanonAlternative water resources in agriculture for improvingproduction and poverty reduction .................................................215Shoaib Ismail, Ian McCann, Shabbir Shahid , Fiona Chandler and Mohamed AmraniInternational Center for Biosaline Agriculture, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesManaging water, sustainability and poverty reduction throughcollective community action .........................................................218Suhas P. Wani, K.H. Anantha and William D. Dar, International Crops ResearchInstitute for the Semi-Arid TropicsA blueprint for sustainable groundwater management inBalochistan, Pakistan ....................................................................222Shahbaz Mushtaq, Kathryn Reardon-Smith and Roger Stone, Australian Centre forSustainable Catchments, University of Southern Queensland, Australia; and SyedMohammad Khair, Balochistan University of Information, Technology, Engineeringand Management Sciences, Quetta, PakistanWater cooperation – the Brazilian case .........................................225Paulo Augusto Cunha Libânio, Water Resources Specialist,National Water Agency, BrazilEnvironmental rehabilitation of the Lake Pátzcuaro watershed,Michoacán, Mexico .......................................................................229Miguel A. Córdova, Appropriate and Industrial Technology Subdivision Head,Mexican Institute of Water Technology and Ramón Pérez Gil Salcido, Director,Water Program, Gonzalo Río Arronte FoundationSuez Environnement’s contribution to water cooperation issues:he case of Algiers ..........................................................................233Jean-Louis Chaussade, CEO, Suez EnvironnementPreparing Denmark for climate changes .........................................237Jan Tøibner, Aarhus Water Ltd.Developing community water services and cooperation in Finlandand the South ...............................................................................240Tapio S. Katko, UNESCO Chair in Sustainable Water Services, TampereUniversity of Technology; and Antti Rautavaara, Senior Water Advisor,Ministry for Foreign AffairsExamples of cooperation in the Czech Republic flood forecastingand information service ................................................................245Jan Danhelka, Eva Soukalova and Lucie Brezkova, Czech HydrometeorologicalInstitute; and Jan Cernik, Czech Development AgencyWetland cooperation is taking care of water ..................................248Tobias Salathé, Senior Advisor, Ramsar Convention SecretariatBetter late than never .....................................................................252Dr Claudine Brelet, HDR[ 8 ]