IX. INTERSECRETARIAT GROUP FOR WATER RESOURCES

IX. INTERSECRETARIAT GROUP FOR WATER RESOURCES . 24 25 9

Water resources

Water resources

(3) Water Resources

Water resources 2.4

Water resources and

water resources and

like water resources.

The Committee invites the Intersecretariat Group on Water Resources to pay particular attention to the close interrelationship between the prevention and mitigation of water related disasters and the sustainable development and management of water resources and ecosystems.

Integrated water resources management

(d) Managing water resources

use of water resources

water resources information management

(a) Fresh water resources

Water resources management

ECLAC agreed with the Rio Group regarding the need for holding consultations to harmonize integrated water resources management approaches.

(i) Committee on Water Resources

UTILIZING MINERAL AND WATER RESOURCES

Water resources are running low.

Pressure on water resources due to increased crop intensity brings about increased water resource competition in areas where water resources are scarce.

J. Cross sectoral priority programmes for coordinated water resources capacity building for water resources management . 12 9

Promoting safe and sustainable water supplies through improved water resources management

Fresh water resources per capita (m3) ____________

field of water resources . 8 4

(b) Water resources and marine affairs

Water resources Almost all reporting Parties provided information on the impacts of climate change on their water resources.

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

44. The Committee considered agenda item 6 at the 1st meeting of its Working Group on Water Resources, on 31 March 1993.

The United Nations Secretariat is carrying out technical assistance projects in the area of protection of fresh water resources through integrated water management systems, assessment and monitoring of fresh water resources, linking water resources activities with initiatives on desertification.

Water is different from other natural resources.

b) the integrated management of water resources,

(a) Sustainable management of shared water resources

(b) Capacity building for water resources management.

2. Integrated water resources development and management

(c) The Committee acknowledges and supports the important role of the Intersecretariat Group for Water Resources of the Administrative Committee on Coordination in the exchange of information and the substantive coordination of programmes aimed at the sustainable development of water resources.

Industry can therefore contribute to water resource conservation in three respects by lowering if not eliminating its pollutant loads on water resources utilized by reducing total water resources utilized and by producing cost efficient equipment for recovering and distributing water resources.

Following the discussion of these items, the Committee would break up into two working groups the Working Group on Water Resources (to discuss items 5 and 6) and the Working Group on Mineral Resources (to discuss items 7 and 8).

TIGER (earth observation for integrated water resources management)

C. Permanent sovereignty over mineral and water resources

EXPLORING FOR AND ASSESSING MINERAL AND WATER RESOURCES

AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE FIELD OF WATER RESOURCES

3. Permanent sovereignty over mineral and water resources.

marketing of agricultural, forestry and water resources 182.0

Chapter 18. Management and use of water resources