• After independence, nine countries in the Niger River Basin in Africa created a joint river basin authority to cooperatively manage their joint water resources.

    FORBES: World Water Day 2013: Water as a Catalyst for Peace

  • Be it a transboundary river basin or aquifer, or a water pump built for a rural village, examples of cooperation apparently abound.

    UNESCO: Open Access to Scientific Information

  • The importance of cooperation in managing limited water resources in a world where demand is rapidly growing, cannot be underestimated: some 145 countries share a major river basin with at least one other nation.

    UNESCO: OFFICE IN BRASILIA

  • The Sava River Basin, a major drainage basin of South-East Europe, is shared by six countries and hosts a population of roughly 8, 5 million.

    UNESCO: OFFICE IN VENICE

  • According to Dr McMahon, a big part of the problem is that both species can survive out of the water for several days, so transporting a boat overland from one river basin to another, a common practice in North America, will not necessarily kill them.

    ECONOMIST: Monitor: Reducing the barnacle bill | The

  • Soon after, Alaska became a state, and in 1960 the Sheenjek River basin was included in a presidential executive order.

    NPR: Mardy Murie, Alaska's Passionate Protector

  • The deltas suggest a river transported clay minerals into the basin from a watershed.

    BBC: Water 'widespread' on early Mars

  • New York City gets roughly half its water from the Delaware River Basin, a key area for hydraulic fracturing.

    CNN: Debate over fracking, quakes gets louder

  • The focus throughout will be HELP and the interface between land use and water management, and how we crystallise a stakeholder driven agenda for effective river basin management in Scotland.

    UNESCO: World Water Day: online and interactive

  • Until then, Perry, his partners, and the Flint River basin farmers may be just a bit ahead of their time.

    FORBES: New Technology Reduces Agricultural Water Consumption

  • The authority rates all but three of the basin's 23 river valleys as being in a poor ecological state.

    ECONOMIST: Australia's water war

  • Careful consideration must be made now of the potential impacts of this, and other dams being considered for the 3-S River Basin, to avoid serious losses and to form a positive solution for the people of the lower Mekong, their energy needs and the environment on which they depend.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • The state Department of Environmental Conservation has conducted studies of the Mohawk River basin since the 2006 flood and has been working on a program involving soil and water conservation districts and the Army Corps of Engineers.

    WSJ: Homeowners sue NY over $4.6M in flood damage

  • Bentek explained in a report this week that the abundance of hydropower, especially in the Columbia River Basin, will lead to historically rare negative power prices (where the generating companies actually pay consumers to take the power) as well as a marked reduction in demand for natural gas.

    FORBES: Record Snowfall To Bring Lower Natural Gas Prices

  • The Murray Darling Basin Authority, a new body charged with saving Australia's biggest river system from expiring, has its work cut out.

    ECONOMIST: To turn a drought into wine

  • Deep in the jungle of the Congo River basin, far from the eyes of most of the world, a largely forgotten African war is being fought.

    BBC: Congo Brazzaville's hidden war

  • Heading west from the park, pick up afternoon treats at New York iconic Zabar's food market (2245 Broadway), and later, as dusk unfolds, meander the serene firefly-flecked Riverside Park amid the Upper West Side's manifold joggers, strollers and dog owners, to the stunning outdoor 79th Street Boat Basin Cafe (W 79th St at the Hudson River) for a huckleberry vodka nightcap.

    BBC: Summer in the city: New York

  • This crisis begins, in classic chaos-theory fashion, with a trivial event along the 100-mile railroad track that moves most coal out of the Powder River Basin.

    FORBES: America has coal to last 250 years. Why is there a shortage?

  • Nevertheless, its important role has somehow been often forgotten and, as a consequence, there are as yet no examples of the fully-fledged integration of sediment management into river basin management.

    UNESCO: OFFICE IN VENICE

  • Within the implementation of the Framework Agreement on the Sava River Basin (FASRB), the Sava countries drafted the Protocol on Sediment Management to the FASRB, to provide a legal basis for future cooperation of the countries on the development of the Sediment Management Plan for the Sava River Basin (Sava SM Plan).

    UNESCO: OFFICE IN VENICE

  • "It is impossible to reconcile a maximum transport approach to salmon recovery with protection of the remaining diversity of salmon and steelhead populations in the Snake River basin, " the report notes.

    CNN: Dam removal: Too little, too late for salmon?

  • Those tours were on a 1.5-mile section in a 2, 000-acre park called the Sepulveda Basin Recreation Area, and the permits sold out in a matter of hours, denying large numbers of river lovers a legal chance to ply the waters.

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