Water rights and legal frameworks

Summer School: Mekong Water Governance will be held on 21-25 January 2019 This intensive one-week Summer School aims to build multi-scholar and critical thinking skills for water governance in civil society, state and young academic practitioners. The key areas of focus are dimensions of transboundary impact ...

GWP is hosting a Pan-Asia Regional training on Water Governance, International Water Law and Multi-Stakeholder Processes together with partner organisations. The training takes place in Kunming, China, 13-15 December 2018. Please e-mail application with all supporting documents to kathia.havens@gwp.org by 26 October 2018. More details ...

Free Online Training Course for Water Integrity: Principles and Concepts is meant to offer a “grain” of the needed knowledge required by water practitioners, public officials, NGO personnel, and anybody else who want to contribute to increase the efficiency and integrity of water management. The course ...

The Ministers/Representatives of Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand, and Viet Nam (hereafter referred to as the “Lower Mekong Countries”); the European Union, the Governments of Australia, Japan, New Zealand, Republic of Korea, and the United States; and the World Bank (hereafter referred to as the ...

Asia Water Forum 2018 will be held in Manila, Philippines, on 2-4 October 2018. The forum will focus on the theme of “Information, Innovation, and Technology”. Underpinned by the need for sustainable water management, reliable water services, and water security, participants can expect high-level plenary sessions ...

Seventh International Conference and Exhibition on Water Resources and Renewable Energy Development in Asia will take place at the Ariyana Convention Centre (ACC) and Furama Resort, Danang, Vietnam 13-15 March 2018. For more details, please visit here ...

We, Thai Mekong People’s Network from Eight Provinces, declare our position from the Dialogue with Datang (Lao) Pak Beng Hydropower Co. Ltd. We demand an integrated assessment of the Mekong dam cascade, including Xayaburi, Sanakham, Pak Beng and Don Sahong Dams. We support a Dialogue ...

The Mekong River Committee (MRC) has concluded a session marking the formal completion of the prior consultation (PC) process for the proposed Pak Beng hydropower project in Laos, with the joint committee issuing a statement ‘the Government of Lao PDR to make all reasonable efforts to ...

International Rivers (IR) has released the results of an independent study it commissioned into the Environmental Impact Assessment for the Pak Beng hydropower dam, finding that “the project studies are insufficient to meaningfully evaluate the dam’s environmental and social impacts – particularly the transboundary and cumulative impacts – ...

Open-access journal Water is calling for papers and contributions for an upcoming special issue covering the Water-Energy-Food nexus in the Greater Mekong Subregion. See below for the call in full, or over at their site.—Dear Colleagues,The Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) is a prime exemplar of the ...