Semaines Thématiques - Ayuntamiento de Zaragoza

DOCUMENT FINAL DES SEMAINES THÉMATIQUES DE LA TRIBUNE DE L’EAU D’EXPO ZARAGOZA 2008
RÉSUMÉ:
SHARED WATERS,
SHARED BENEFITS
Ashok K. Subramanian
Transboundary water management has been
piloted and studied in many parts of the world.
Regional and national organizations have been
established to build trust among countries and
their leaders, to share knowledge and information
and to plan and implement projects sharing benefits
and costs. Many collaborative efforts have delivered
evidence that conflict and lack of cooperative
management would be expensive, disruptive,
and would interfere with efforts to relieve human
suffering, reduce environmental degradation, and
achieve economic growth.
There are 263 rivers around the world that
cross the boundaries of two or more nations, and
an untold number of international groundwater
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aquifers. So, in many parts of the world, the potential
for conflict still exists, and parties involved
have not yet embarked on the path of assessing
incentives for regional cooperation or have not
started systematic dialogue for exploration of
shared use of water as a unique resource. What
can these countries learn from the experiences of
other water basins?
In this session several experts and key players
in river basins will share their experiences in the
African context and formulate a set of recommendations
i.e. defining steps to identify incentives to
get countries and stakeholders together around
the dialogue table, to assess the pros and cons of
those incentives and to communicate and negotiate
with each other about win-win solutions.