This proposal deals with water resources management and the role of law in achieving sustainable development and building cooperation between countries sharing transboundary water resources.  As the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, has stated at Davos 2010 "the water problem is broad and systemic. Our work to deal with it must be so as well[...]

Global demand for fresh water is constantly rising as a consequence of population growth and the rise in living standards. Agriculture is not only the world's largest water user in terms of volume, but is also a relatively low-value, low efficiency, and highly subsidized user. In the years to come the agricultural sector will[...]

The mission of UN-Water Decade Programme on Capacity Development (UNW-DPC) is to support and strengthen the activities of the more than two dozen UN organizations and programmes already cooperating within the interagency mechanism known as UN-Water, and in particular to promote capacity development in water related issues. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is encouraging[...]

From 1991 to 2007 about 80% of all natural disasters were of meteorological or hydrological origin. In the last decades, between 1960 and 2004, there has been a significant increase in water related extreme events. Floods are the most frequent catastrophic events which people have to face; they are caused most frequently by a[...]

Annually, due to erosion in rivers’ basins which will be intensified during flash floods, a huge amount of sediment is transported with the river flow. The accumulated sediment is quite fertile and sediment transport greatly contributes to agriculture in the downstream area. Although sediment transport is very vital for agriculture, it has caused serious[...]

The warming of Earth’s climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and the rising global mean sea level. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has declared in 2008 that water resources are amongst systems and[...]

In recent years there has been growing evidence that the earth's climate will become warmer in 21st century, which raises the essential question: What impacts will global warming have on the environment and human activities? Warming will cause hydrologic changes that will affect freshwater resources. These are among the most significant potential impacts of[...]

Based on the Framework of Cooperation signed between the UN-Water Decade Programme on Capacity Development (UNW-DPC) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of United Nations (FAO), the two organizations, together with the Ministry of Energy of Iran, Deputy for Water and Wastewater Affairs, organized from 9 to 13 August 2009 the second of a[...]

According to the agreed minutes of the 5th RCUWM Governing Board Meeting which was held in Tehran, November 2007, and with the presence of Mr. Fattah, honorable Minister of Energy, I.R. Iran and Chairman of the RCUWM Governing Board, it was confirmed that the training course on Climate Change and its Impacts on[...]

World-wide water resources are under consideration: on the one hand fresh water resources are increasingly scarce. On the other hand, the flows of wastewater are increasing. Domestic wastewater is, directly or indirectly, increasingly being used for agricultural production, under various circumstances. A modern challenge is to channel and manage these flows properly, considering food[...]