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This online Stockholm World Water Week session is the third in a series on “Governance: the enabling environment to foster innovation.”
Join SEI US Water Program Director Marisa Escobar, who will join a roster of speakers 22 August to delve into the challenges of transboundary water management.
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River basins and aquifer systems often cross political boundaries. Traditionally, much of the focus within transboundary water governance has centred on relationships between states and on water quantity issues. This session will transcend old frameworks to investigate innovative, multilevel transboundary governance approaches that focus on both quantity and quality.
Transboundary waters straddle different law and policy frameworks, expose power asymmetries, contribute to geopolitical conflicts, and often lead to fragmented governance. Dominant water planning paradigms, notably Integrated Water Resource Management, have encountered difficulties accounting for the scope and scale of diverse actors across transboundary watersheds.
Transboundary water cooperation has also been largely limited to dealing with issues of water quantity. However, global debate around marine pollution transported across borders has opened the topic of water quality management as a crucial element to ensure the equitable and sustainable use of these resources. Pollution of transboundary water resources remains a significant challenge across the world.
This session delves deeper into the complexities of transboundary water governance by exploring ideas and case studies of multilevel governance and cross-sectoral interaction within the transboundary water governance paradigm. It does so by centering water quality as an essential aspect of water management, critical for ensuring the protection of ecosystems, public health, and economy.
SIWI
When: 19:00–20:00 CEDT, 22 August
Where: Online
Register at the link below for in-person and online attendance.
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