The Second Assessment provides a comprehensive overview of the status of transboundary waters in the European and some Asian parts of the UNECE region, covering more than 140 transboundary rivers, 25 transboundary lakes, about 200 transboundary groundwater aquifers and 25 Ramsar Sites or other wetlands of transboundary importance.
It has been carried out under […]

Thanks to  generosity and good cooperation spirit of the Mongolian Water Authority we finally obtained English text of the Action plan.
We were especially impressed with the opening actions  under Section 3:
3. The following measures shall be taken towards creating conditions for the accumulation of water resources, provision of potable water, which should meet the requirements […]

Second workshop on water and adaptation to climate change in transboundary basins: challenges progress and lessons learnt, held on 12-13 April 2011 in Geneva.
The workshop was organized on 12 and 13 April 2011, back-to-back with the fourth meeting of the Task Force on Water and Climate (14 April 2011). It brought […]

At the launch of the pilot projects during the workshop “How to adapt to climate change in transboundary basins”, held in Geneva on 10-12 May 2010, it was decided to establish a core group composed of representatives of the pilot projects in order to exchange experience between the projects. On February 15-16, 2011 in UN […]

Dauria project is one of  8 members of UNECE Water Convention pilot project on adaptation to climate change in transboundary basins.See review of all projects:core_group_overview_pilot-projects_progress_final.pdf
Adaptation to climate change in transboundary headwaters of the Amur River Basin 
Background: of the project.
Dauria wetlands support globally significant populations of at least 20 bird species […]

Web-ste of “Mongolian Water Center” http://uudrug.co.cc now displays absolutely misleading description of  Herlen-Gobi Project (as well as Orkhon-Gobi Project), which says the following:

The objective of the Herlen-Gobi Project is to divert water from the Herlen (Kherlen, Kelulunhe) River and supply it to the Southeastern Gobi regions by means of […]

 The Task Force on Water and Climate under the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes is responsible for activities related to adaptation to climate change, including flood and drought management. In 2007-2009, the Task Force prepared a Guidance on Water and Adaptation to Climate Change  which provides governments with strategic […]

 As new water conflict unfolds in Dauria we should look into history of wars of the past among which there was the “Khalkhin-Gol Battle” that wrote the name of this part of Argun River Basin into the history of the world. The river is also presently known under shorter Mongolian name “Khalkh” and   Chinese name […]

The Amur River: from the Daurian steppe to the Sea of Okhotsk - was the topic of the report delivered in Brisbane at riversymposium by Yury Darman - Director of Amur branch of WWF-Russia:
 
Water management in the Amur-Heilong River basin is largely unsustainable in all three basin countries and is based on very different premises […]

This is a case study on water infrastructure project threats to the Argun River, written by Eugene Simonov in May 2009 upon learning of rapid progress on Hailaer-Argun canal construction. The paper shows discrepancies between assumptions about the projected impacts of the water diversion project and scientifically-documented ecological processes in the Daurian wetlands. The author […]