Interventions to increase agricultural productivity to reduce poverty and hunger through greater extraction of water must be balanced with water conservation measures.

Making Water Conservation Pay

Regarding soil and water conservation, improved irrigation techniques, introduction of water use policies and monitoring of competing uses and demands for water, soil and water conservation techniques, and flood controls were seen as important.

The Contracting Parties shall, in view of the role of water in the functioning of natural ecosystems, take all appropriate measures towards the conservation of their underground and surface water resources.

The Contracting Parties shall, in view of the role of water in the functioning of natural ecosystems, take all appropriate measures towards the conservation of their underground and surface water resources.

Reforming subsidies that encourage unsustainable water use could encourage water conservation and investments in water saving technologies and practices.

Adaptation measures should be focused on efficiency and conservation.

f. Conservation, protection, development, and economy of use of the water resources of the international drainage basin and the costs of measures taken to achieve these purposes

Other options included restructuring and construction of water infrastructure and reduction of leakage and construction of solar desalination systems despite high initial cost, and the implementation of nature and forest conservation measures to stabilize watersheds, and thus water resources.

And another group was created to promote the Independent Initiative for Water Conservation.

Part of the solution may be the adaptation of energy conservation measures.

Towards the implementation of its Conservation Measures, the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources is increasingly cooperating with non contracting parties.

Many countries have successfully used water tariff structures to promote water conservation and discourage waste, while meeting the needs of the poor.

Options for North South environmental technology transfer on a preferential basis by agreement could include waste water treatment, water conservation and desalinization.

Maintenance and rational use of water conservation projects and flood prevention facilities involving transboundary waters.

Providing economic incentives to farmers and industries, for example in the form of low interest credit, tax relief and subsidies, could encourage investments in water conservation, low cost waste water treatment, soil conservation and other land management practices.

In central and eastern Europe, soil conservation activities are implemented with the support of initiatives focusing mainly on combating soil erosion, land fertility management and water conservation.

We hope those efforts will contribute to greater compliance with conservation and management measures.

The Parties shall establish and implement policies for the planning, conservation, management, utilization and development of underground and surface water, as well as the harvesting and use of rain water, and shall endeavour to guarantee for their populations a sufficient and continuous supply of suitable water, taking appropriate measures with due regard to

(b) To ensure that transboundary waters are used with the aim of ecologically sound and rational water management, conservation of water resources and environmental protection

The Contracting Parties shall take appropriate measures aiming at the prevention or reduction of transboundary impacts and at a sustainable and equitable use of water resources as well as at the conservation of ecological resources, especially

(ix) Article 7 of the Revised African Convention on the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, 2003, Water

Reviving conservation, management, and distribution efforts could reduce water consumption and increase efficiency, but these measures need to be combined with radical reforms to speed the transition away from oil dependence to a zero carbon renewable energy infrastructure.

This double whammy can be mitigated only by innovative water management and conservation, and by developing nontraditional supply sources.

c) the conservation of forested and other catchment areas and the coordination and planning of water resources development projects,

Most of the adaptation options identified for agriculture relate to crop management, land management, and soil and water conservation.

Most of the projects aimed to increase access to water and food production and to conservation of acacia trees.

Water scarcity could be addressed through modern water conservation techniques in agriculture (such as drip irrigation, on farm water management, lining of watercourses and canals, etc.) and through more traditional techniques (such as rainwater harvesting).

The Commission also maintains a database on vessels known to have fished in contravention of its conservation measures.

Environmentalism Spring green may be used to represent the green movement, especially in graphic design for environmental literature regarding issues having to do with water resources or water conservation.

(v) Article 7, paragraph 3 of the Revised African Convention on the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, 2003, Water

In the industrial sector, three Parties proposed projects aimed at identifying energy conservation measures and actions (energy efficiency gains).

In Africa, the ongoing initiatives for rehabilitating degraded land are focused on reforestation, soil conservation and integrated management of water resources.

(i) Article 8 of the Association of South East Asian Nations Agreement on the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, 1985, Water

Their activities are mainly concerned with the recovery of degraded land, the rehabilitation of the natural environment, and water and soil conservation.

UNIDO also works on manufacturing conservation agriculture technologies, mainly water harvesting and zero tillage, bamboo and oil palm plantations and downstream oil.

Measures taken to improve drinking water facilities included establishing the drinking water supply through a network of piped systems, installing a water reservoir, providing mobile and fixed water tanks and testing drinking water.

Activities cover such areas as information, awareness creation, reforestation, water and soil conservation, regeneration of rangelands, ecotourism and the promotion of renewable energies.

(i) Article 8, paragraph 1 of the Association of South East Asian Nations Agreement on the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, 1985, Water

WFP also carried out programmes on land conservation and water management in other sub Saharan countries such as Burkina Faso, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda.

Implementing water protection measures to minimize radionuclide seepage into Kiev reservoir through watercourses

Soil conservation.

On the other hand, reducing demand through improved energy efficiency and conservation measures are beneficial for both the security of supplies and the global climate.

Some delegations expressed the view that where no regional fisheries management organization exists, coastal States should have the right and duty to adopt conservation measures.

Governments should be encouraged to adopt measures to reduce their countries' dependence on fossil fuels through conservation and encouraging the use of alternative energy sources.