As organizations working on the seven African Great Lanes (Albert, Edward, Kivu, Malawi, Niassa Nyasa, Tanganyika, Turkana and Victoria) and their basins, the African Center for Aquatic Research and Education and the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD-ACAE) apply innovative research, science, knowledge-sharing, education, and engagement as tools to influence sustainable conservation, management and policy decisions. 

With support from the Netherlands, FAO has developed an open access near-real-time database using satellite data that allows monitoring of actual evapotranspiration, biomass production and agricultural water productivity. 

The landfill in Vrakuna Bratislava - containing hazardous waste originating mostly from chemical industry - has been contaminating the soil and groundwater for over 30 years. The issue is now more urgent than ever as there is evidence that the contamination plume has spread further from the landfill and threatens the drinking water reservoirs located in "Rye Island" area. 

Water management supported by data resulting form monitoring programs and scientific research projects is an initiative that had its beginnings in the 70s with the formation of a binational join commission that later evolved into partnerships with universities, institutes laboratories of Itaipu. 

About one percent of the freshwater on the surface of our planet exists in liquid form, and more than 90 percent of it is in lakes and wetlands. Indonesia has more than 1500 lakes, accomodate 500km3 of water or 72% of the total Indonesian surface water. 

We will contribute to the Freshwater Challenge being launched at the UN Water Conference and proposed by several countries, in partnership with IUCN and several NGOS and other organizations. The Freshwater Challenge aims at leveraging the support needed to bring 300,000 km of rivers and 350 milkion hectares of wetlands under restoration by 2030. 

Worldwide about 85% of lakes and wetlands have been lost or are heavily degraded. To achieve the goals of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity goals and the UN Decade of Habitat Restoration, combined efforts for mainstreaming of successful solutions is needed. 

The «Dakar Action Plan for basins of lakes, rivers and aquifers» is an initiative from the Senegal, Morocco, Switzerland, the International Network on Basin Organizations, UNECE, OMVS and OMVG. The Dakar Action Plan for basins provides the technical definition of the principles for actions and commitments needed. It mobilizes the main stakeholders of basin management (basin organizations and committees, ministries, donors, water users' associations, etc.)

We do not think we should repeat the experience of the UN Summits on Sustainable Development and others with a hundred and thousand partnership initiatives without real global and local practical changes. 

The Association Agir pour la Solidarité et le Développement Durable, ASDD, has already noticed enormous consequences linked to the destruction of trees especially on the littorals of rivers and streams that flow into Lake Tanganyika. This is especially true of the MUGERE River which separates the MUHA and KABEZI communes.