Involving stakeholders in transboundary water resource management: The Mesta/Nestos ‘HELP’ basin

A Southern African Perspective on Transboundary Water Resource Management

Southern Africa is characterized by a large number of international river basins, inherent climatic variability, and a natural maldistribution of perennial rivers. The region also has a history of political instability, driven by liberation struggles against the former colonial powers and the Cold War. Southern Africa’s transboundary rivers and their associated ecosystems could become either dr...

Resilience in Transboundary Water Governance: the Okavango River Basin

When the availability of a vital resource varies between times of overabundance and extreme scarcity, management regimes must manifest flexibility and authority to adapt while maintaining legitimacy. Unfortunately, the need for adaptability often conflicts with the desire for certainty in legal and regulatory regimes, and laws that fail to account for variability often result in conflict when t...

Basin-wide water accounting using remote sensing data: the case of transboundary Indus Basin

P. Karimi, W. G. M. Bastiaanssen, D. Molden, and M. J. M. Cheema International Water Management Institute, Battaramulla, Sri Lanka Water Management Department, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands eLEAF, Wageningen, The Netherlands International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu, Nepal Department of Irrigation and Drainage, University of Agriculture, Faisal...

Water-Energy-Food Nexus in a Transboundary River Basin: The Case of Tonle Sap Lake, Mekong River Basin

The water-energy-food nexus is promoted as a new approach for research and policy-making. But what does the nexus mean in practice and what kinds of benefits does it bring? In this article we share our experiences with using a nexus approach in Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake area. We conclude that water, energy and food security are very closely linked, both in the Tonle Sap and in the transboundary...

Investment Methods in Sustainable Water Resource Management Using SAW Method