In cooperation with the Fourth World Water Forum and the Japan Water Forum, UNICEF is planning to organize the second Children's World Water Forum as a parallel event.

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(d) existing uses of the waters

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We have facilities around there. You also have a buffer zone that's 17 square kilometers.

The total area is 2.28 percent water.

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Meanwhile, telecommunications links to areas outside of Kabul were severed, isolating the capital.

Typically, runway resealing does not necessarily require an airport to be shut down.

The commemoration in 2003 of the International Year of Fresh Water was a benchmark in the establishment of an international water agenda.

One suggested approach is to leave an uninhabited buffer zone extending shoreward from the water.

Saudi Arabia says it is trying to enforce a buffer zone within Yemen to keep the rebels away from its border.

They had to dig wells for water.

(a) Environmental conditions of transboundary waters

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(i) Substantive servicing of meetings provision of institutional support to regional intergovernmental processes on water (e.g. African Ministers' Council on Water) (3)

The British had previously controlled the city and maintained a buffer between the Jewish and Arab populations.

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There is an anticlockwise water circulation in the sea.

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This pattern differs from that of salmon, which only return to freshwater to breed, and is described as amphidromous.

But they should be combined with shoreward buffer zones, where homes, schools, and hospitals would not be permitted.

The core zone of this national park covers 857.54 km2 and a buffer zone of 1,954 km2.

Having lost Poland as a buffer, Russia now had to share borders with both Prussia and Austria.

1. Proclaims the year 2003 as the International Year of Freshwater

2003 was designated the International Year of Freshwater.

E. Fourth World Water Forum, Mexico 2006

Groundwater abstraction activities or artificial groundwater recharge schemes where the annual volume of water to be abstracted or recharged amounts to 10 million cubic metres or more.

The Northern Water Network was launched at the Third World Water Forum in an effort to build a network among the water community in industrialized countries to exchange experiences, technologies and know how.

Moreover, Kenya s desire to carve out a buffer state conflicts with the Somali government s goal of uniting the country.

Protecting urban areas that are located near the ocean, but lack buffer beaches, requires a different approach.

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The costs of environmentally unsustainable water use must be quantified.

In 1809, to protect their imperial capital, Saint Petersburg, the Russians conquered Finland and converted it into an autonomous buffer state within the Russian Empire.

Water consumption rose nine fold and energy use thirteen fold.

Never mind that this is hugely inefficient in terms of water and land usage.

There are no groundwater areas at the border between Finland and Sweden.

Aquifer Natural water bearing geological formation found below the surface of the earth.

The river is the primary source of water for Maseru, the capital of Lesotho, which stands on the river.

An average annual surface water potential of 78.1 km³ has been assessed in this basin.

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c) prevent excessive abstraction, to the benefit of downstream communities and States.

Loss of use of water by the Jordanian population Jordan seeks compensation in the amount of USD 134,661,668 for the loss suffered by its population because it was deprived of the full use of water due to strict rationing of municipal water following Iraq's invasion and occupation of Kuwait.

Between 1994 and 2002, the proportion of homes with improved sanitation services, defined as a lavatory bowl connected to a drainage system, a lavatory connected to a septic tank, or a flush toilet.

Noting that the Fourth World Water Forum will take place in Mexico in March 2006,