Turkey and Syria also limit water flowing into the marshes with dams upstream.

Often, they manufacture high quality upstream products, which are then processed further in Europe.

Local authorities in Yunnan province, however, are considering damming the Salween in the quake prone upstream region.

Four of the seven upstream Nile Basin Initiative countries have decided to sign a new Nile deal.

India maintains a three pronged strategy term contract for crude purchase, participation in the upstream sector, and refineries.

First, he scolds the lamb because he is muddying his drinking water (even though the wolf was upstream).

While production in Iraq is estimated to have increased significantly, a lack of security renders upstream operations unstable.

Higher value added sectors and functions that are upstream and downstream from processing industries will also need to flourish.

At least this is the argument that upstream countries along the Nile River have been saying for years, but Egypt continues to refuse to renegotiate a colonial era treaty that would allocate more water for use in the upstream countries part of the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI).

Egyptians depend on the Nile River, and Ethiopia has begun construction upstream of what will be Africa s largest hydroelectric dam.

The joint venture would acquire firms in the upstream market, thereby foreclosing access to raw materials by competing furniture manufacturers.

(a) Support for the further development of regional programmes, upstream activities and formulation of phase II for those IPs approaching completion.

Regardless of whether action is targeted upstream or downstream, the result is integration in products and services offered by public authorities.

There was an appreciation of the greater upstream policy dialogue as a way to prepare national policies for long term development.

The dam could also serve as a bridge across the Blue Nile, complementing a bridge that was under construction in 2009 further upstream.

Yet in a new context of scarcity, upstream infrastructure projects on international rivers may impact water quality or availability for neighboring states, thus causing tensions.

These are not agreements to cooperate on shared resources, but rather commercial accords to sell hydrological data that other upstream countries provide free to downriver states.

(b) Upstream and analytical work, including expert group meetings and joint projects with research institutions, to support the development of UNIDO priority programmes and new initiatives

Some delegations expressed satisfaction with the plan's provision for a strengthened UNICEF role in upstream policy related activities, including poverty reduction strategies and sector wide approaches.

I found out that advances in science rarely come upstream from an ability to stand at a blackboard and conjure images from unfolding mathematical propositions and equations.

Rotterdam has the largest port in Europe, with the rivers Meuse and Rhine providing excellent access to the hinterland upstream reaching to Basel, Switzerland, and into France.

First, there must be proactive upstream planning to achieve predictability in demand, an approach that the Department has been focusing on since the early stages of reform.

You're always fighting upstream like a salmon never enough money, too much need and so there is a tendency to have an occupational depression that accompanies my work.

They receive input from thousands of upstream partners and compute their own electrical outputs, which then, if they pass a certain threshold, will go to thousands of downstream partners.

In some countries, payment for environmental services, for example to owners of upstream forests or downstream wetlands, has led to improved management of water resources at relatively low cost.

However, under pressure to cut costs and increase efficiency, the 2000 2003 Business Plans reoriented UNDP as a knowledge based' organization, giving priority to advocacy and upstream policy advice.

Flash floods in recent years in two Indian frontier states Himachal Pradesh and Arunachal Pradesh served as an ugly reminder of China s lack of information sharing on its upstream projects.

Flow rates on the Columbia are affected by many large upstream reservoirs, many diversions for irrigation, and, on the lower stretches, reverse flow from the tides of the Pacific Ocean.

But Gazprom is worried about its upstream capabilities, as is evident from the decision to divert gas from its Shtokman field to Europe rather than liquify it for new North American markets.

According to the strategy, OMV intends to increasingly divert its investments from the refining and filling station business to the upstream business (Exploration Production), where two thirds of future investments will be made.

Upstream dams, barrages, canals, and irrigation systems can help fashion water into a political weapon that can be wielded overtly in a war, or subtly in peacetime to signal dissatisfaction with a co riparian state.

Smaller shock angles are associated with higher upstream Mach numbers, and the special case where the shock wave is at 90 to the oncoming flow (Normal shock), is associated with a Mach number of one.

Located on the border between Zambia and Democratic Republic of the Congo, it makes up 110 km of the total length of the Congo, lying between its Luapula River (upstream) and Luvua River (downstream) segments.

In the early 2000s, OMV expanded into Eastern Europe, by acquiring around 10 of Hungarian oil company, MOL and in 2003 it acquired the upstream division of Germany s Preussag Energie, expanding its filling station networks.

With regard to the findings under programme identification and formulation, it was important to enhance programme relevance and focus, to ensure greater integration with United Nations wide assistance frameworks, and to strengthen upstream analytical activities.

The shrinking sectors include the labour intensive upstream stages of the production process, where jobs have been outsourced to other countries a phenomenon that is neither apparent to customers nor reflected in statistics on foreign direct investment.

It funds the upstream research that generates discovery and invention supports the creation of new networks, from canals to the Internet and serves as a creative customer for innovative products, as it did during the computer revolution s nascence.

Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said on Wednesday that the bullying of Egypt over the construction of dams along the Nile River must end as upstream nations attempt to implement a number of water projects despite Cairo s opposition.

It also enables the Organization to transfer knowledge on a wider basis and to strengthen upstream policy dialogue with Governments to realign national strategies and programmes in accordance with intergovernmental decisions, particularly in the context of global conferences.

In particular, all financial transactions related to upstream activities in the value chain should be disclosed, including those carried out by state owned companies and sovereign wealth funds. Downstream, the international markets for recycling and disposal should be included.

For example, these standards may be effective to prevent conflict over upstream resource use with potentially negative downstream impacts to assure public goods (i.e., by such means as watershed management) and to promote intersectoral cooperation and inter jurisdictional equity.

So, after all the tourists that irrigate this poor region with precious income leave the viewing platforms below the falls, authorities close the sluice gates that dam the White Water River on the dangerously low upstream reservoir, and the falls cease.

The shift by UNICEF in this plan period towards a greater relative emphasis on upstream support to national policy, capacity and partnerships for scaled up programme delivery may, in some cases, entail a reduction of support to smaller scale project activities.

In the simplest case, a single connection is established to an upstream ISP and is used to transmit data to or from areas of the Internet beyond the home network this mode of interconnection is often cascaded multiple times until reaching a tier 1 carrier.

Because the effectiveness of any given performance monitoring system is a function of the quality of the defined results and indicators designed to measure the progress towards achievement of those results, assistance to managers should also focus upstream on improving the definition of results and indicators.