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International law --- Environmental law --- Water supply. Water treatment. Water pollution --- waterverontreiniging --- internationaal recht --- milieurecht

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Without water there is no life  ThisbookistheresultofacollaborativeprojectbetweentheUNESCOCentre for Water Law, Policy and Science (formerly the International Water Law ResearchInstitute)attheUniversityofDundee,andtheScienti?cInformation Center of the Interstate Commission for Water Coordination in the Aral Sea basin(SICICWC). Theprojectwasdedicatedtoexaminingthepracticalissues of Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) in Central Asia, and culminated in a workshop held at Bishkek in February 2004. The workshop brought together some of the leading experts in the ?eld and resulted in important insights into some of the issues surrounding the transboundary and nationalmanagementoftheregion'ssharedfreshwater. However,thespeedof developments in the region has been so rapid that even in the relatively short time since the workshop took place, signi?cant changes have taken place. As a consequence of the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the resu- ingemergenceof?venewlyindependentstatesinCentralAsia Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan the water resources that in the past were the sovereign domain of a single country (USSR) had - cometransboundary. Thisprecipitatedtheneedfor?ndingnewapproachesto manage the now transboundary waters of the two main rivers of the region the Amudarya and Syrdarya Rivers in order to meet national demands of the?vesovereignStatesthatdependeduponthesewaters. Thus,inSeptember 1991, 1 month after independence, the national Ministers of water resources fromeachofthe?vecountriesconcludedandsignedadocumentsettingforth the agreed need for joint water management of the basin waters. On February 18, 1992, an agreement was reached on the procedures for such management and the Interstate Commission for Water Coordination (ICWC) was est- lished as the management agency responsible for the joint management of the transboundary waters in the region.

International law --- Environmental law --- Water supply. Water treatment. Water pollution --- waterverontreiniging --- internationaal recht --- milieurecht

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