Transboundary water management arrangements

摘要

Regional conventions and protocols based on the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) exist for the Northeast Atlantic, the Southeast Pacific, the Baltic Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, the Black Sea and the ROPME Sea Area (ROPME Sea Area stands for the Arabian / Persian Gulf). The 1992 UNECE Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (Water Convention) was signed in Helsinki, 17 March 1992. It was enforced by the United Nations in 1994 and came into force in 1996. It currently has 36 parties to the convention. Unlike the 1992 Water Convention's focus on water quality above, the 1997 UN Convention on the Law of the Non Navigational Uses of International Watercourses is more concerned with allocating water resources.