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12Table of contentsCompetition for Water within Countries 294Map 12.1: Drainage basins under high or medium stress and the sectorthat uses the most water 295Box 12.1: Competition for water in Valle Province, Colombia 296Sharing Water:Defining aCommon InterestWater for ecosystems 295Mechanisms for Sharing Water within Countries 297Box 12.2: Drought conciliation in Japan 298Box 12.3: New technology helps share the resource in Saudi Arabia 298Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) 299Figure 12.1: Power and authority of different institutional mechanisms 299Box 12.4: Sharing water resources in the Seine-Normandy basin 300Transboundary Water Management 300Conventions and declarations 301Box 12.5: Expanded freshwater programmes 301Legal principles 303Box 12.6: International public law related to the non-navigationaluses of shared water resources 302Developments in basin-level transboundary water management 303Table 12.1: Transboundary river basins 304Map 12.2: Country dependence on water resources inflow fromneighbouring countries 312Conflict, Cooperation and the Importance of ResilientInstitutions 312The complex dynamics of managing transboundary waters 312By: UNESCO (United NationsEducational, Scientific and CulturalOrganization)Collaborating agencies: RegionalCommissionsFigure 12.2: Events related to transboundary water basins 313Map 12.3: Transboundary basins of the world and the number ofassociated treaties 313Box 12.7: Sharing water in the Senegal River basin 314Box 12.8: Water sharing as an instrument of regional integration– the Nile basin 315