• This is an international waters global governance project that is examining both fresh water and marine experiences through the identification, collection, analysis, adaptation and replication of beneficial practices found in the legal and institutional frameworks that govern such waters. The objectives are to strengthen and promote multi-country cooperation, and to enhance the transboundary regime development in an eco-systemically sustainable manner. The project is developing a South South network of professionals and practitioners working on all aspects of transboundary waters.

    The project has three principal components:

    To identify and analyze legal and institutional beneficial practices in International Waters, in order to increase the understanding and knowledge of the frameworks necessary for conservation, good governance and wise decision-making.

    To develop and validate new experiential learning tools and teaching guides, in order to establish a cohort of local experts to enable tool delivery. Tools will include case studies, negotiations, role play simulation exercises, and interactive DVDs.

    To develop local expertise in training and tool delivery, in order to ensure replication and to develop local ownership and control of the tools.

    The principal project partners are the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada and El Colegio de México, Mexico City, Mexico. A number of other partners work with the project on a regional level.

Unquenchable thirst threat to peace in South Asia

[Translate] Unquenchable thirst A growing rivalry between India, Pakistan and China over the region’s great rivers may be threatening South Asia’s peace is documented in a new article in the Economist. See http://www.economist.com/node/21538687 SONAULLAH PHAPHO has spent half a century picking a living from Wular lake high in Indian-controlled Kashmir. Today he is lucky if he scoops a fish or... [Read more of this post]

CLIMATE INDUCED WATER STRESS IN CANADA

[Translate] A recent report by Bob Sandford, lead author of Climate Change Adaptation and Water Governance, links that scarcity to climate induced-water stress on Canada’s fresh water resources. According to Sandford that stress includes “substantial reduction in summer stream flows, increased likelihood of severe droughts, increased aridity in semi-arid regions, saline intrusion into coastal... [Read more of this post]

IWC6 Coming Soon!

[Translate] October 17 to 20 in Croatia – UBC Project presenting 4 workshop sessions. See details at http://iwlearn.net/abt_iwlearn/events/iwc6  Read More →

Controversy over Canada – US Water Deal

[Translate] Osoyoos Lake on the border of B.C and Washington State has a water-sharing agreement with the U.S. under the 1909 Boundary Water Treaty. The agreement is up for renewal, and a proposal to guarantee water flows to the U.S. is drawing fire from Okanagan residents. Fears are surfacing in British Columbia over a call to guarantee water flows to the U.S. under an international agreement... [Read more of this post]