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People have simply lost the knowledge of how to use the catchment area and the rain, the blessing of the water in the right way.

The boundaries of these new regions are based on catchment basins.

Effective management links land and water uses across the whole of a catchment area or groundwater aquifer.

(ix) Protecting and rehabilitating catchment areas for regulating water flows and improving water quality, taking into account the critical role of ecosystems

Our, Florida watershed restoration act, is our legislation that implements the TMDL program, from EP, From EPA.

undertake pilot projects to demonstrate the contribution of forests, for example, Model Forests and watershed management create an improved environment for increased private sector funding.

It may also be feasible to increase natural availability by increasing rainwater catchments and storage units.

As in other watershed areas, abundant snow and rainfalls are common.

Reforestation in many of them is also necessary for the restoration of degraded watersheds so as to increase water supply to meet growing demand.

Through its Water Futures Partnership, the company has identified which of its facilities are located in areas facing water security risks and has created partnerships in the local watersheds to address these risks.

Many cities worldwide are following its example, expanding their water catchment and treatment programs.

Bioregions are defined through physical and environmental features, including watershed boundaries and soil and terrain characteristics.

Specific support will focus on community management of local water resources, including rainwater harvesting (for use by households and schools, and groundwater recharge), micro watershed management and operational research.

While deforestation and unsustainable management practices can lead to increased water pollution, sustainable forest management in watersheds can help to protect supplies of freshwater.

This approach covers projects related to forestry, agro forestry, watershed management, desertification control, wildlife and protected area management and fisheries.

Many Parties reported on options to increase domestic water supply these included prospecting for, and extraction of, deep groundwater, increasing storage capacity by building reservoirs and dams, and improving watershed management.

81. A FAO Technical Cooperation Network on Upper Watershed Management among English speaking Caribbean Islands has been expanded to include other aspects of forestry.

Reforestation was also recognized as a priority for protecting watersheds, mitigating natural disasters, and protecting investments in agriculture and infrastructure.

The Declaration highlights the need for cooperation in harnessing the fresh water catchments of Africa, as an important prerequisite for social and environmental development.

The 1999 Florida Watershed Restoration Act directs DEP to check and to make sure, or insure, that these BMP's are, in fact, working.

The territorial competence of such authorities with respect to groundwater management should not necessarily be limited to either administrative boundaries or catchment areas but should allow for encompassing, as appropriate, management of aquifers in their entirety.

The dam yielded and it flooded at Ca' Zuliani.

Human settlements in watersheds may modify hydraulic systems and destabilize slopes, thereby increasing flood and landslide hazards.

Iraq referred especially to contamination of water from urban settlements located within the catchment areas of highly vulnerable springs which did not have appropriate connections to sewerage networks.

In October 2003, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) signed a watershed agreement to establish an economic community by 2020.

Forests and terrestrial ecosystems Forest management and conservation were seen by several Parties as important to protect watersheds, combat land degradation and desertification, preserve species and sequester carbon.

Most of these activities generate considerable negative externalities, the most important being disfigurement of coastlines and marine pollution and pollution of coastal freshwater aquifers.

So, if a farmer adopts the best management practice, if we have a TMDL for a water body and a basal management action plan and agriculture is part of that watershed

It is a region which has tremendous potential, not least because of the remarkable qualities of its peoples.

That would be a huge, vast metropolitan area, probably much larger than the city of Victoria.

There are huge areas of open water just south of your position.

Incorporating water risk into McDonald s Environmental Scorecard is an important step in engaging suppliers not only on water efficiency, but also in overall stewardship, including cooperation with local watershed stakeholders.

Options to advance the integrated water resources management process could include market based mechanisms and a combination of management by catchment and management by region.

And you can notice they have created a kind of false catchment.

(b) Implementation of a GEF project on integrating watershed and coastal area management in thirteen small island developing States in the Caribbean, with a view to enhancing the capacity of those countries to plan and manage their aquatic resources and ecosystems on a sustainable basis

Because it's along the axis of the mid ocean ridge where the great crustal plates are separating.

Thailand rejects the map, which contravenes a Franco Siamese agreement in 1904 stipulating a demarcation along a watershed line separating the two countries.

Specific thematic initiatives have been launched in the areas of education, gender, policy and law, research, sustainable livelihoods, sustainable agriculture and rural development in mountains and watershed management.

We gave talks once a month, and that actually ended up implementing some amazing sustainability projects at the prisons organic gardens, worm culture, recycling, water catchment and beekeeping.

The application of a participatory approach to watershed management and the development of pilot sites have yielded very positive results that have the potential for wider replication throughout the country.

Ukraine is big, and Georgia is far away in the Caucasus.

In Bang Bua Thong District, a crocodile was found in a Soi that was flooded with 50 centimeters of water.

Water supplies are increasingly under stress in large parts of the world, especially in the world s arid regions.

So it's a huge, exciting area of research, and you could even, in theory, grow new organs.