After independence, nine countries in the Niger River Basin in Africa created a joint river basin authority to cooperatively manage their joint water resources.
The Susquehanna River Basin Commission said the overall health of the river basin is improving, but there are some problem areas.
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).
But the consequence is that as many as 4, 000 people, according to Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, could have their homes submerged as waters are funneled into the Atchafalaya River Basin, between that river and the Mississippi.
With 148 countries sharing at least one transboundary river basin and two thirds of the world's 276 river basins being shared by two countries, cooperation is the key to preserving water resources and protecting the environment, but also to fostering and maintaining peaceful relations within and among communities.
During the Vietnam War, countries in the Mekong River basin still continued technical negotiations.
The Green River Basin in Wyoming, Utah and Colorado contains another 800 billion barrels.
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Mercury poisoning can be found almost anywhere, including places considered remote, like the Amazon River basin in Brazil.
This tells farmers how much water they can consume without adversely affecting the ecosystems in their river basin.
New York City gets roughly half its water from the Delaware River Basin, a key area for hydraulic fracturing.
The effects of nutrient pollution are increasingly apparent throughout the Mississippi River basin.
Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact, which was signed into law by President George W. Bush on October 3, 2008.
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Other coal companies have drifted out West to the Powder River Basin, where the coal lies right at your feet.
Caroline Kay of the preservation trust said "structures such as this are not appropriate for the river basin in Bath".
It owns 200 miles of gas pipelines and operates coal-bed methane gas wells in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming.
Soon after, Alaska became a state, and in 1960 the Sheenjek River basin was included in a presidential executive order.
The traditional division between the Nilotic people of the river basin and the Equatorians of the south-west is being bridged.
Until then, Perry, his partners, and the Flint River basin farmers may be just a bit ahead of their time.
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The lawsuit was filed against the commission by the Powder River Basin Resource Council, Wyoming Outdoor Council, Earthworks and OMB Watch.
Now others are attracted: no fewer than 17 states, including many in the Ohio River basin, are studying coal-bed methane production.
Be it a transboundary river basin or aquifer, or a water pump built for a rural village, examples of cooperation apparently abound.
Labour remains cheap, and the Mekong River running through Cambodia allows the country to benefit from schemes to develop the entire river basin.
It covers an area roughly half the size of France within the Upper Paraguay River Basin, extending over the border into Paraguay and Bolivia.
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.
The Conference is jointly organized by: UNW-DPAC and the Ebro River Basin Authority, UNESCO, UNW-DPC, World Bank, UNEP, OECD, ILO, ECLAC, ESCWA, and UN-Habitat.
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Its Ohio River basin water-quality trading project will allow those facing high pollution-control costs to buy reduction credits from those whose costs are lower.
And with the Colorado River basin entering its eighth year of sustained drought, it doesn't look like the reservoir will be filling up again soon.
Today, the roughly 443 million tons of coal mined from the Wyoming Powder River Basin is shipped to 34 states, including those in the east.
It appears many are moving into the Chao Phraya river basin north of Bangkok, the country's main farming region and its chief centre of population.
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