Resorces: Knowledge bases

Name

Hierarchical Classification System of the Knowledge Base “Water in Central Asia”

Description

List of headings is a hierarchical classification system, which is applied to systematize documents and represent them in databases and information publications.

Access

1. Water Resources

2. Water Resources Use

3. Agriculture

4. Land Reclamation

5. Land Degradation and Desertification

6. Hydroecology

7. Climate Change

8. Water Governance and Management

9. Water Law and Policy

10. Economic and Financial Aspects

11. Water and Education

12. Water and Ethics

13. Decision Support System

14. Sustainable Development, Green Growth, and Security

15. Gender and Gender Policy

Developer / support

SIC ICWC

Languages

English, Russian

Name

Knowledge Base “Water and Land Resources Use in the Aral Sea Basin”

URL

www.cawater-info.net/bk/water_land_resources_use/english/

Description

Knowledge Base includes the following sections:

  • physical-geographical characteristics of the region;
  • water resources;
  • water resources use;
  • desertification and monitoring;
  • organizational and legal issues of water resources management and financing.

The knowledge base also includes the results of the past field studies on irrigation and drainage in the region.

Inclusion of those studies proceeds from a need to ensure the intergenerational continuity. Recently, most graduates of higher education institutions have been coming to water-management organizations without knowledge of experience in irrigation and drainage as gained in Central Asia over the past 20-30 years. It is assumed also that earlier research works are unknown to most foreign specialists who try to assist the Central Asian states in solving water and environmental problems in the Aral Sea basin.

In the database, information being of current interest for Central Asian countries as well as for other regions has been gathered on problems related to desertification, including its monitoring; the effect of irrigation on surface and groundwater and the Aral Sea, etc. The knowledge base will provide users (scientists, experts, ecologists, politicians, and whole society) with necessary and easily accessible information for rational use of water and land resources.

It should be noted once again that the main objective of the knowledge base should be to disseminate advanced experiences, achievements, and methodologies in the field of water sector (specific examples of problem solving, description of pilot projects and so on), distributed through knowledge tree branches (by subheadings): irrigation, drainage, hydro structures, etc.

Developer / support

SIC ICWC

Languages

English, Russian

Name

Knowledge Base “Integrated Water Resources Management: Central Asian Experience”

URL

www.cawater-info.net/bk/iwrm/

Description

This knowledge base is aimed at a wide range of specialists–water management professionals, including policy-makers in the water sector who define trends and meaning of modern reforms of water governance and management.

At the same time, this knowledge base is also intended for a wide range of civil society’s representatives interested in proper implementing water management reforms. A content of this knowledge base allows our users to be imbued with recognizing that civil society and nature face the serious problems related to water resources all over the world.

At present, these challenges cannot be efficiently tackled using the customary, prevalent during last decades, traditions, governance structure, and methods of water management. Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) is here treated as a new promising approach to solving the abovementioned problems. First findings of introducing this new approach in Central Asia are generalized in the present knowledge base.

Developer / support

SIC ICWC

Languages

English, Russian

Name

Knowledge Base “International and National Water Law”

URL

www.cawater-info.net/bk/water_law/

Description

International water law concerns the rights and obligations that exist, primarily between States, for the management of transboundary water resources. Such legal rules and principles are dedicated to preventing conflict and promoting cooperation of shared water resources

International water law has evolved and crystallized through state practice and the codification and progressive development efforts undertaken by the United Nations and private institutions.

The treaty practice in this area encompasses a broad range of instruments, from general agreements (which provide basic principles for water resource development) to specific ‘contractual’ type legal and technical arrangements (which set forth detailed operational schemes).

While water users compete for the same resource and struggle for increasing control, they also need to cooperate if they want to make effective use of water and sustain the water’s quantity and quality in the long run. This often occurs in ‘pluralistic’ legal contexts, where formal and informal normative systems sometimes clash.

The Knowledge base contains the generalized information about the international water law and national water laws of the Central Asian states.

Developer / support

SIC ICWC

Languages

English, Russian

Name

Knowledge Base “Land Law”

URL

www.cawater-info.net/bk/land_law/

Description

Land law is the branch of law that governs social relations in the implementation of property rights and other interest in property related to the land and land surveying, the characteristics of civil turnover of land, restrictions on the use of land as a unique natural object, as well as activities of public authorities to ensure the rational use and protection of land.

The knowledge base contains the generalized information about the national land laws of the Central Asian states.

Developer / support

SIC ICWC

Languages

English, Russian

Name

Knowledge Base “Land Reclamation and Irrigated Agriculture”

URL

www.cawater-info.net/bk/improvement-irrigated-agriculture/

Description

The knowledge base covers all issues related to irrigated agriculture and reclamation, summarizing particularly the experience of the Central Asian states.

Developer / support

SIC ICWC

Languages

Russian

Name

Knowledge Base “Waterworks Safety”

URL

www.cawater-info.net/bk/dam-safety/

Description

This knowledge base deals with the safe and reliable operation of hydraulic structures, as well as mutually beneficial cooperation in this field relevant for the countries of Central Asia.

Developer / support

SIC ICWC

Languages

English, Russian

Name

Knowledge Base “Gender and Water”

URL

gender.cawater-info.net/knowledge_base/

Description

The knowledge base contains information relevant for both the Central Asian republics and other regions on issues of gender equality and women’s role in water sector.

Developer / support

SIC ICWC

Languages

English, Russian

Name

Knowledge Base on Afghanistan

URL

www.cawater-info.net/afghanistan/

Description

The knowledge base contains collection of books, reports, monographs, papers, declarations, international agreements concerning of Afghanistan.

Developer / support

SIC ICWC

Languages

English, Russian

Name

Knowledge Base on Amudarya river basin

URL

www.cawater-info.net/amudarya-knowledge-base/

Description

The knowledge base contains collection of books, reports, monographs, papers, international agreements concerning of the Amudarya river basin.

Developer / support

SIC ICWC

Languages

English, Russian

Name

Knowledge Base on Syrdarya river basin

URL

www.cawater-info.net/syrdarya-knowledge-base/

Description

The knowledge base contains collection of books, reports, monographs, papers, international agreements concerning of the Syrdarya river basin.

Developer / support

SIC ICWC

Languages

English, Russian

Name

Knowledge Base on Zeravshan river basin

URL

www.cawater-info.net/zeravshan/

Description

The knowledge base contains collection of books, reports, monographs, papers, international agreements concerning of the Zeravshan river basin.

Developer / support

SIC ICWC

Languages

English, Russian

Name

Knowledge Base on Karadarya river basin

URL

www.cawater-info.net/karadarya/

Description

The knowledge base contains collection of books, reports, monographs, papers concerning of the Karadarya river basin.

Developer / support

SIC ICWC

Languages

English, Russian

Name

Knowledge Base on Chirchik river basin

URL

www.cawater-info.net/chirchik/

Description

The knowledge base contains collection of books, reports, monographs, papers concerning of the Chirchik river basin.

Developer / support

SIC ICWC

Languages

English, Russian

Name

Knowledge Base on Surkhandarya river basin

URL

www.cawater-info.net/surkhandarya/

Description

The knowledge base contains collection of books, reports, monographs, papers concerning of the Surkhandarya river basin

Developer / support

SIC ICWC

Languages

English, Russian

Name

Knowledge Base on Kashkadarya river basin

URL

www.cawater-info.net/kashkadarya/

Description

The knowledge base contains collection of books, reports, monographs, papers concerning of the Kashkadarya river basin

Developer / support

SIC ICWC

Languages

English, Russian

Name

Knowledge Base on Water Quality

URL

www.cawater-info.net/water_quality_in_ca/

Description

The knowledge base contains collection of books, reports, monographs, papers, standards, sanitary regulations concerning of water quality.

Developer / support

SIC ICWC, CAREC, UNECE

Languages

English, Russian

Name

Electronic Library

URL

www.cawater-info.net/library/

Description

Large collection of publications - books, articles, legislative and normative legal documents for management and use of water and land resources and the environment.

Developer / support

SIC ICWC

Languages

English, Russian

Name

Bibliographic database “Land and Water Resources Use in the Aral Sea Basin”

URL

www.cawater-info.net/biblio/en/

Description

Bibliographic Database "Land and water resources use in the Aral Sea Basin" contains bibliographic records with abstracts of books and articles. Bibliographic record includes information about authors, name and source (book, journal or collection of articles) of the publication, date and place of publication in the original language, a brief annotation, search terms (keywords). Bibliographic description serves two aims: signal (alerts about the appearance of the document) and address attribute (necessary information for its searching).

Developer / support

SIC ICWC

Languages

English, Russian

Name

Training and capacity building in the water sector in Central Asia

URL

www.cawater-info.net/training/

Description

Portal section on training and capacity building in the water sector in Central Asia.

Developer / support

SIC ICWC

Languages

Russian

Name

Reviews

URL

www.cawater-info.net/review/

Description

Reviews contain most interesting information about international collaboration in water and land resources management and use

Developer / support

SIC ICWC

Languages

Russian

Name

Clean Water Space

URL

www.cawater-info.net/all_about_water/en/

Description

God has given Water to the World as the Holy sacrament gift and ordered not to tolerate spoiling water, for He has not done it. In our lifetime – our days filled with perpetual race for all kinds of benefits, wealth, the lifetime of the oil idol and the golden calf, - only belief in Water and devotion to Water, its miracle cure for securing health, for soil fertility, for saving the beautiful all can put the will of God into action!

The site posts popular articles, essays and other useful information about water as a unique natural resource.

Developer / support

SIC ICWC

Languages

English, Russian

Name

Glossaries

URL

www.cawater-info.net/bk/glossary/

Description

The glossaries contain the basic terms, definitions and concepts which are used in spheres of the International Water Right, Water Economy, Gender etc.

Developer / support

SIC ICWC

Languages

English, Russian

Name

Infographic

URL

www.cawater-info.net/infographic/

Description

Visualization of information, data and knowledge about Central Asia, the Aral Sea Basin, the Amudarya and Syrdarya rivers

Developer / support

SIC ICWC, Zoi

Languages

English, Russian