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Culture and wetlands: A Ramsar guidance document
… wetlands. It has also been one of the main reasons for the drainage of wetlands, not completely halted even when the … attempted to cultivate the land that resulted from the drainage. The results soon proved disastrous. For irrigation, … systems (such as irrigation, water distribution and drainage associations, and traditional dispute settlement …
Governance of Shared Waters - Legal and Institutional Issues
… is fed by smaller rivers, and goes on to form smaller drainage basins, i.e. the sub- basins and micro-basins, spatially delimited by their respective drainage divisions. c. Depending on predominant climatic … do not always coincide with the areas delimited by the drainage divides. In this respect, an aquifer may transfer …
Compendium of Summaries of Judgments in Environmen Related Cases
… court ordered the respondents to comply with the law on drainage and resettlement of displaced persons and not to … Milwaukee v. State 193 Wis. 423 Crawford County Lever and Drainage Dist. No. 1 182 Wis 404 Gould v. Greylock … on local self-governing bodies. Similarly, providing drainage systems, not pompous and attractive, but in working …
Transboundary water governance and climate change adaptation: international law, policy guidelines and best practice application
… surveillance, water supply, sanitation, and irrigation and drainage systems; climate-proofing of infrastructure; … Good governance and IWRM – a legal perspective. Irrigation Drainage Systems, Vol. 24, pp. 239-241. Journal of the …
The green belt of Europe: From vision to reality
… collective farms or state enterprises, which saw extensive drainage operations and the introduction of alien species for … Things started to change when from the 17th century larger drainage systems were built. The efforts to win more arable … rakosiensis).61 In the Hanság areas, even with extensive drainage, the land remained partially water-logged and many …