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Some activities in relation to water
management in Central Asia
IOWater / INBO
Mr. Jean - François DONZIER
General Manager
International Office for Water
Permanent Technical Secretary
International Network of Basin Organizations
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Created in 1994 to facilitate
operational exchanges between BO
INBO’s REGIONAL NETWORKS
North American
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Organizations
(NANBO)
Latin American Network
of Basin Organizations
(LANBO)
EUROPE-INBO
Group for WFD
Mediterranean
Network of Basin
Organizations
(MENBO)
Brazilian Network of
Basin Organizations
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EECCA Network
of Basin Organizations
Central and Eastern
European Network of Basin
Organizations
(CEENBO)
Network of Asian
River Basin
African
Organizations
Network of Basin
(NARBO)
Organizations
(ANBO)
192 FULL MEMBERS or PERMANENT
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3. Among the main promoted principles
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IWRM taking into account
all water resources (surface
water, groundwater) and
uses
Reinforcing the water governance in supporting the
appropriate institutions to develop their:
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Data collection procedure and water information system
(database, GIS, portal, modeling tools ..)
Water management plan (national and basin level)
Program of measure taking account climate change
perspectives
Training programme
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UN Pan – European Ministerial Conference.
ASTANA - 21 -23 September 2011
“Save water, grow green”

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• The UN Water conference on basin management,
Dushambe – Tajikistan, 19 – 20 October 2011
And on water cooperation in August 2013

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2012….,
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A PART OF INBO WEB-SITE
IS TRANSLATED ALSO IN RUSSIAN!
www.inbo-news.org
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The European Framework Directive:
the future of water resource management.

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Common Implementation Strategy Achievements
17 Guidance Documents,
And the Water Information System in Europe:
1) Economics and the Environment
2) Identification of Water Bodies
3) Analysis of Pressures and Impacts
4) Artificial and Heavily Modified Water Bodies
5) Transitional and Coastal Waters –Typology, Reference Conditions
6) Intercalibration Network and the Intercalibration Process
7) Monitoring
8) Public Participation
9) GIS and the WFD
10) Rivers and Lakes Typology
11) Planning Process
12) Wetlands
13) Classification
14) Reporting
15) Groundwater protection;
16) prevention of groundwater pollution
17) characterisation of coastal waters

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Implementation of the UN Convention
for the international water courses management
in Europe – HELSINKY 1992
Building the data administration and sharing capacities
of the national and local Authorities involved in 2 pilot basins,
by using methodologies that can be replicated
in other transboundary basins of the region.
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Case study of activity in CA
the FFEM-EECCA project
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Project concept developed with the “Working Group on
Monitoring and Assessment” of the UNECE
transboundary water convention
Objective: Study how water data management can be
reinforced in order to facilitate transboundary basins
water management and joint assessments in EECCA
countries
Steering committee: FFEM (French GEF= funding
organization) / French Ministry of Ecology/
Secretariat of the Water Convention
• Mandated beneficiary: HIS/IWAC (Slovakia)
• Technical assistance: IOWater (France)
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Implemented in Central Asia (Aral sea basin) under the
supervision of the IFAS executive committee (EC-IFAS)

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Main outputs of the diagnosis phase
on data management in Central Asia
National workshops in 4 CA countries
(including KG/KZ/TJ) with participation
of the main national data producers,
and restitution in regional meetings
Online database of actors producing/
using water related data/information
(more that 500 organizations)
On line catalogue of data sources
(metadata) updated with/by the data
producers, including on groundwater
Data flow diagrams describing who
exchange what with who (developed
with/by the partners during the
workshops) including on groundwater
Survey and analysis of the needs of
the partners concerning water data
management
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Supporting data sharing and data valorization on water
resource through definition of procedure of data exchange and
implementation of a portal managed by the KZ branch of
EC-IFAS (in agreement with the NWRC)
Available at
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=>http://kzwater.kz
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On the KZ part of the Syrdarya, this portal allows of
online access to daily water level data
provided by 3 KZ organizations
(Kzhydromet, Kzvodkhoz, Min. of Emergency situation)
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17. Supporting the production of a prototype regional
hydrological bulletin on the Syrdarya by EC-IFAS
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Conceptual analysis of the national water information
system in Tajikistan:
On request of the “Ministry of Melioration and Water Resources of
the Republic of Tajikistan”, a feasibility study
of the national information system in the water sector was realized,
with recommendations on its global architecture, governance organization
and implementation action plan.

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Contribution to the enabling of the legislative environment in
Turkmenistan:
In the framework of the National Policy Dialogue activities in Turkmenistan,
the project presented some recommendations to be considered in the water
code revision in order to facilitate the integrated water data administration
at national level.

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Comments and conclusions
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• Better integration of groundwater is needed knowing that
IWRM governance is still weak
• Some future activities of OIEau /INBO related to water
management at national level and regional level in CA
are presently under study with Swiss DC…
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All results are presented on the project web site:
http://www.aquacoope.org/ffem-eecca
lessons learnt are synthesized in guidelines entitled:
“How to improve water data management
for a better cooperation in transboundary water
management?”

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the sixth session of the Meeting
of the Parties to the Water Convention
(Rome, 28-30 November 2012)
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