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Your guide to the UNECE Water Convention now available in six languages

The guide explains how the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes helps countries to curb water pollution, restore and conserve water-related ecosystems, prevent conflicts over scarce resources, and ensure that international rivers are well managed so that future generations, too, will be able to extract clean water from them.

Although originally negotiated by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), the Convention was recently amended to enable other UN Member States to sign up to it and benefit from the experience acquired in UNECE. To raise awareness about the Convention around the globe, this guide was translated into all the official languages of the United Nations with the help of the Environment Ministries of Italy, Spain and Switzerland.

Copies in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish can be ordered free of charge from:

Rainer Enderlein UNECE Environment and Human Settlements Division Palais des Nations, office 313 CH - 1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland Phone: +41 (0) 22 917 23 73 Fax: +41 (0) 22 917 01 07 E-mail: [email protected]	or:	Francesca Bernardini UNECE Environment and Human Settlements Division Palais des Nations, office 311 CH - 1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland Phone: +41 (0) 22 917 24 63 Fax: +41 (0) 22 917 01 07 E-mail: [email protected]
Web site: http://www.unece.org/env/water/welcome.html

Ref: ECE/ENV/05/N01