So quite often you load water for ballast.

Ballast water exchange is currently the only method used to minimize the transfer of harmful aquatic organisms and pathogens through ships' ballast water.

Control of harmful organisms and pathogens in ballast water

It also established a ballast water review group to determine whether appropriate technologies are available to achieve the ballast water performance standard required under regulation D 2.

52. Further calls upon States to accelerate the development of measures to address the problem of invasive alien species in ballast water, and urges the International Maritime Organization to finalize the International Convention on the Control and Management of Ships' Ballast Water and Sediments

They ended up swimming through ballast water that had oil in it.

Because when tankers carry oil they have to have ballast at some point, so when they're empty, they have the ballast water in there.

When they come back, they actually dump this oily ballast water into the ocean.

Ballast?

We tried in the water without any skin or ballast just to see how it works.

Water Management

Trim your forward ballast.

Trim your forward ballast.

The introduction of non native species or diseases, including from ballast water and hull fouling, is a global concern.

Its new thematic structure covers water basin management land, water and livelihoods agriculture, water and cities and water management and environment.

International Water Management Institute

Integrated water resources management

water resources information management

Urban water management 415

(b) Water resource management

Water resources management

The World Bank highlighted three key issues regarding water resources management ecological management of water economic management of water and allocation of water among major users agriculture, industry and services.

Improving water and land management

While integrated water resource management provides an integrated framework for addressing water issues, countries will want to tailor integrated water resources management plans to their own particular water management needs and objectives.

91. In the marine sector, the problem was first recognized as having global significance with the issue of ships apos ballast water.

Programme Component C.4 Water Management

Promoting safe and sustainable water supplies through improved water resources management

Training of trainers for the sanitary inspection of public water supply systems was complemented by training on practical methods of local water management, solid waste management and engineering, water law and institutions, operation and maintenance of water treatment plants and water network management.

In order to prevent, minimize and ultimately eliminate the risks arising from the transfer of harmful aquatic organisms and pathogens by ships, IMO adopted the International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships' Ballast Water and Sediments in 2004.

Throwing overboard, as ballast, to change our direction.

Alright. Soon as I take on some ballast.

We've got to gain altitude. Unload the ballast.

(e) Improving water resource management through a better understanding of water resources

b) the integrated management of water resources,

Water quality, ecosystem management and disaster prevention

(a) Sustainable management of shared water resources

(b) Capacity building for water resources management.

2. Integrated water resources development and management

57. Also welcomes the adoption by the International Maritime Organization of the International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships' Ballast Water and Sediments,International Maritime Organization, document BWM CONF 36, annex. and calls upon States to become parties to that Convention

Well, in a balloon it's easy, we have ballast.

And when we drop the ballast overboard we climb.

Aboard The Nautilus, we use such baubles for ballast.

The International Water Management Institute (IWMI), based in Sri Lanka, implements research studies focusing on analysis of the trade offs between water development, water management and the environment.

(a) Ecosystem approaches to integrated water resource management

TIGER (earth observation for integrated water resources management)