News Waterfall Published by the NGOs, working on water in Central, Eastern, Southern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia region. Output of the project: Raising awareness about the UNECE Water Convention and its Protocol on Water and Health and strengthening the role of the civil society organizations in their promotion and implementation. In the July 2012 issue of the “NewsWaterfall” Newslette 16th meeting of EUWI EECCA Working Group in the context of the National Policy Dialogues Core Group meeting held in July 2012 The 16th meeting of the EU Water Initiative for Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia Working Group was held on 2 July 2012 in Geneva. The Working Group met at its annual meeting to review progress, set priorities, share the experience of target countries and information about relevant projects, and to endorse the work plan for the 2013 year. Read more... On-going preparation for the sixth session of the Meeting of the Parties to the Water Convention The joint meeting of the Working Group on Monitoring and Assessment and the Working Group on Integrated Water Resources Management took place in Geneva, 3–4 July 2012. This meeting was an important event in preparation for the sixth session of the Meeting of the Parties to the Water Convention (MoP-6), that will take place in Rome from 28 to 30 November 2012. The meeting discussed the issues on Opening the Water Convention, Establishment of the Implementation Committee, the Working Program for the period 2013–2015, Transboundary Groundwaters, Special edition assessment on the water-food-energy nexus and Vision for the future of the Water Convention and took the important decisions on the agenda issues. Read more... UNECE Supports Development of New Water Legislation in Georgia The first Steering Committee meeting of the Georgian National Policy Dialogue on Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), held in Tbilisi on 11 and 12 June 2012. It approved some basic elements for new water legislation. The Steering Committee meeting followed by a Stakeholders Workshop was organized by the Georgian Ministry of Environment Protection and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), in cooperation with Global Water Partnership — Georgia. Read more... Brawn bag event in Geneva to promote best practices on insuring equal right to water and sanitation To raise awareness on good practices of providing an equitable access to water and sanitation the Brown bag event was organized by French Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, UNECE, Secretariat of Protocol on water and health in Geneva, July, 3 2012. The recent publications on this issue as well as some country cases from the book “No one left behind and plan for further work on this issue in the region were presented to the participants of the joint meeting of the Working Group on Monitoring and Assessment and the Working Group on Integrated Water Resources Management. Read more... Payments for ecosystem services as a tool for implementation of Water Convention The Parties to Water Convention should take all appropriate measures to ensure conservation of ecosystems not limited to transboundary ones. For the last years the ecosystem services concept and payment for ecosystem services were introduced and actively promoted as an innovative tool for Water convention implementation based on the Recommendations on PES in IWRM, PES scheme establishment and application in pilots and good practices collection and analysis. Read more… Usurped river: natural disasters and departmental voluntarism on the Dniester River In July 2012 , firstly the catastrophic situation has been defined in the Lower Dniester — transboundary river of Moldova and Ukraine. It is first time when the massive blooming of water by algae, vast death of fishes and aquatic organisms were observed because of lack of river flow, lack of needed discharging of water from reservoirs for the ecological and sanitarian purposes during the spring and hot summer. It is needed to take the urgent measures and review of the rules of reservoirs’ exploitation with taking into due account not only hydropower demands, but also the demands of other water users, including nature and people. Read more... Public demands to solve environmental problems of Dnieper! The 4th Dnieper Forum of NGOs from three countries of Dnieper river basin took place on 6-7 July 2012 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Dnieper Forum was dedicated to annual Dnieper Day celebrations and the 20th anniversary of UNECE Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (Water Convention) adoption. 88 representatives of NGOs, scientific and water sector institutions from 19 cities from three Dnieper riparian countries gathered to discuss River problems and ways to solve them. Results of the Forum were reflected in the Resolution. Read more… UN-Water Best Practices Award: deadline submissions: 15 September 2012 UN-Water invites you to nominate your best practice for the 3rd edition of the ‘Water for Life’ UN-Water Best Practices Award. Application period: 30 June –15 September 2012. Focus on ‘Water Cooperation’ Read more... Recent Publications:
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