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International water governance: Conservation of freshwater ecosystems Vol. 1: International agreements compilation and analysis
… any other place where there is an appreciable risk of the organism entering the lake basin, unless the other Parties … the boundary waters of the Great Lakes Systems but may be modified and additional specific water quality objec- tives … to the specially protected area in question, or of genetically modified species, as well as the introduction or …
Change : Adaptation of water resources management to climate change
… that can survive on very little water. These are not genetically modified organisms (GMOs) but traditional crops used by … social process. Just as issues such as health care and genetically modified organisms have generated much debate, …
Groundwater in international law: Compilation of treaties and other legal instruments
… sites, biological diversity and its components, including genetically modified organisms, and the interaction among these elements; … acids, formed by the metabolic processes of a living organism. Biological diversity means the variability among …
Freshwater Law and Governance: Global and Regional Perspectives for Sustainability
… the area was impaired, 30% of which had been substantially modified from its original condition.68 Today the MDBA lists … infringe on domestic laws, require that domestic laws be modified, or upset existing political interactions. 5.5.4 … pre-existing Boards of Control into Watershed Boards, with modified membership according to local circumstances. The IWI …
Law for water management: a guide to concepts and effective approaches
… from direct runoff. bioaccumulate: the process by which an organism absorbs a toxic substance at a rate greater than … and functioning systems with highly regulated and modified human-engineered systems. These “developed” systems … for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships. 1973 (as modified by the Protocol of 1978 relating thereto) (available …
Governance of Shared Waters - Legal and Institutional Issues
… Subsequently, and in certain cases, this theory was modified to consider water as res communis, which means, … for the basin, that should be periodically reviewed and modified, • as and when necessary. The aforementioned plan, … waters, coastal waters and artifi- cial and heavily modified bodies of surface water. Additionally, Annex II …
Flow : The essentials of environmental flows
… for releases for environmental flows and to be designed, modified and operated accordingly. Likewise, the Vision for … and 6. For a sample, the score for each observed taxon is modified based on its abundance, and an aggregate score … on the results of DRIFT, the design of the Mohale Dam was modified to include a multiple-level intake structure capable …
Water-related conflict and security in Southern Africa: The SADC Protocol on shared watercourses
… es- tablished methods of cooperation in place that can be modified with relative ease to be compatible with the … Additions to the text of Articles 8–11 and 24–34 include modified text from analogous articles of the UNFCCC. 14 Annex … should be dropped from the simulation model, or somehow modified. Nonetheless, most recognized that it was a useful …