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- Formation of transboundary river basin organisations at the heart of the hydro diplomacy meet
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Formation of
River Basin Organisations (RBOs) between basin neighbouring countries is at the
heart of an international conference here on Hydro-Diplomacy: A Tool for
Sharing Waters Across Waters.
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More than 120
delegates from 26 countries are gathered here at this picturesque river island
to test the waters, as it were, on how far hydro-diplomacy can work.
International river basins are said to be home to 40 per cent of the global
population.
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The conference is
organised by the IUCN, an inter-governmental organisation with multiple
financers. After working on it for 15 years, the IUCN succeeded with the help
of the Finland Foreign Affairs Ministry in the formation of the Mekong Water
Commission between the basin countries of Cambodia, Laos PDR, Thailand and Vietnam.
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The world lacks a
legal framework that is universally acceptable and technically sound to manage
transboundary waters in an equitable manner. The U.N. Convention on the Law of
Non-navigational Uses of International Watercourses was adopted by the U.N.
General Assembly in May 1997.
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