Promoting sustainable development by improving knowledge and governance of transboundary groundwater resources

Type
Priority
Cooperation
Action groups
3B Implement transboundary cooperation to foster peace and prevent conflicts
Code
3B4
Date
DAY3 - Wednesday 23rd of March
Schedule
Room
Description

The session will present global initiatives and concrete examples of cooperation over groundwater resources of transboundary aquifers contributing to foster cooperation and preventing conflicts.

Programme

6 Presentations
Panel discussion
Interaction with the audience

Keywords
Projects included

• 20 years of assessing transboundary aquifers, achievements and the challenges

• Moving forward with improved assessment and management of transboundary aquifers

• Establishment of a shared management of water resources in the Senegal-Mauritanian aquifer basin (SMAB)

• Governance of the Stampriet Transboundary Aquifer System (Southern Africa)

• Implementation of the Guarani Aquifer Strategic Action Programme: Enabling Regional Actions

• The Role of Sound Groundwater Resources Management and Governance to Achieve Water Security

Organizers

UNESCO-IHP
UNECE

Other organizers

• Geneva Water Hub
• IWRA
• iWSSM - UNESCO Centre in Korea
• IGRAC
• ORASECOM,
• SADC-GMI

Duration
90'
Expected results, impacts and follow-up links with events and initiatives after the Forum

This session should contribute to collect and summarize relevant messages for better integrating transboundary cooperation on groundwater aspects within the UN Water Decade and raise the profile of groundwater and the need for cooperation for a water secure world.