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E1 - Regulation of the Environment - Support Function of Groundwater Systems

… E1 - Regulation of the Environment-Support Function of Groundwater Systems Author: Gabriel Eckstein Scope: This … be used to ensure the environment-support functioning of groundwater resources at the domestic and international … ensure the continued environment- support functioning of groundwater systems. Special attention will be paid in both …
22 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

E2 - Prevention of Aquifer Pollution

… The class highlights how quantity and quality control of groundwater are interrelated because unsuitable abstraction … in land-use and pollution management has to be involved in groundwater quality protection and included in the scope of … exercise the participants will be asked to strengthen the groundwater pollution provisions in a fictitious domestic …
22 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

Introduction to Freshwater Resources - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… 1. Introduction 2. Regulation 3. The Hydrological Cycle Groundwater 5. Water Scarcity Climate Change 6. Water … action and evaporate, or may percolate downward to become groundwater. The area on the land surface where infiltration … This may lie a considerable distance from the place where groundwater is withdrawn or emerges naturally, for example, …
22 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Marine and Freshwater

A2 - Integrating Environmental Concerns in National Water Law

… services in water-related charging 5.9. Restricting groundwater extractions to safeguard groundwater’s ecosystem-support function 5.10. Downscaling … and fertilizers, in a manner that does not pollute groundwater or surface waters. Also regulated are changes in …
22 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

Water Law and the Environment

… 1. Introduction 1.1 Definitions 1.2 The Importance of Groundwater 1.3 The Impact of Climate Change 1.4 Increasing … https://www.informea.org/en/terms/groundwater 1.2 The Importance of Groundwater It is important to note that both of these …
22 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

UN Watercourses Convention User’s Guide

… watercourse 78 2.1.3 Ecosystem approach 78 2.1.4 Groundwater 79 2.1.5 Scope of parties – watercourse state and … of Transboundary Aquifer 83 Table of Figures Figure 1.6 | Groundwater Resources of the World 83 Figure 1.7 | Treaty … ‘Codification of the Law of Transboundary Aquifers (Groundwater) by the United Nations’, (2011) 36(5) Water …
22 Jun 2026 Document in Marine and Freshwater

A1- Integrating Environmental Concerns in International Water Law

… 3. Introduction 3.1. Definitions 3.2. The Importance of Groundwater 3.3. The Impact of Climate Change 3.4. Increasing … Ibid., Art. 2(b). [3] Art. 1(1). 3.2. The Importance of Groundwater It is important to note that both of these treaties include groundwater in their definitions of the regulated subject …
22 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

United Nations Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… the physical unity of interconnected surface water and groundwater when managing shared freshwater resources. … However it does not apply, strictly speaking, to groundwater that is not connected in some way with surface water, so-called “confined” groundwater. Nevertheless, the ILC annexed a Resolution on …
22 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Marine and Freshwater

D1 - Ecosystem Approach and Ecosystem Services

… and water uses across the whole of a catchment area or groundwater aquifer.” (Principle 1). More recently, in 2015, … to protect and preserve such ecosystems.” (article 10). Groundwater protection is addressed in Module E. [2] … 2002 Incomati-Maputo Agreement). Finally, with regard to groundwater, some arrangements adopt the formulation of the …
22 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

Document - Freshwater Law and Governance: Global and Regional Perspectives for Sustainability

… Agreement), and the rest pertain to both surface and groundwater. In terms of geographic location, two agreements … Indus Waters Treaty44). Most deal with surface water and groundwater; a few deal only with surface water or only with … management of over 300 basin tributaries and the basin’s groundwater resources. The Danube Convention established the …
22 Jun 2026 Document in Marine and Freshwater