Advisory Documents and Guidelines
The Helsinki Rules on the Uses of Waters of International Rivers (Helsinki, August 1966)
14 kB
Berlin Rules on Water Resources (Berlin, 2004)
84 kB
Paris Ministerial Declaration of the Water and Sustainable Development International Conference (1998)
89 kB
Petersberg Declaration on Cooperation for Transboundary Water Management (1998)
83 kB
Ministerial Declaration of The Hague on Water Security in the 21st Century (2000)
78 kB
Ministerial Declaration of Bonn International Conference on Freshwater, Water — a Key to Sustainable Development (2001)
105 kB
The Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development (2002)
99 kB
Plan of Implementation, World Summit on Sustainable Development (2002)
266 kB
Kyoto Water Declaration (2003)
9 kB
Beijing Declaration on Hydropower and Sustainable Development (2004)
22 kB
The New Dehli Declaration, XII World Water Congress IWRA (2005)
18 kB
The Alicante Declaration: The Global Importance of Ground Water (2006)
24 kB
4th World Water Forum Ministerial Declaration (2006)
177 kB
Local Government Declaration on Water (2006)
39 kB
Joint Declaration of the Movements in Defense of Water (2006)
22 kB
UNECE Bonn Declaration (November 2006)
37 kB
Tashkent Declaration of the International Conference “Problems of Aral: Impact on the Gene Pool of the Population, Flora, Fauna and International Cooperation for Mitigating Consequences” (March 2008)
19 kB
Dushanbe Declaration on Water-Related Disaster Reduction (Dushanbe, June 2008)
42 kB
Dushanbe Declaration on Water (Dushanbe, June 2010)
48 kB
Declaration of the High Level International Conference on Water Cooperation (Dushanbe, August 2013)
115 kB
Declaration of the High Level International Conference on the implementation of the International Decade for Action “Water for Life”, 2005-2015 (Dushanbe, June 2015)
16 kB
Declaration of the High Level Symposium on SDG 6 and Targets: Ensuring that No One is Left Behind in Access to Water and Sanitation (Dushanbe, August 2016)
156 kB
“From Dushanbe 2022 to New York 2023” Final declaration of the Second High-Level International Conference on the International Decade for Action “Water for Sustainable Development” (Dushanbe, June 2022)
265 kB
Final declaration of the Third High-Level International Conference on the International Decade for Action “Water for Sustainable Development” (Dushanbe, June 2024)
365 kB
St. Petersburg Statement on the Aral Sea (October 2009)
25 kB
Muscat Declaration on Water (Oman, February 2009)
45 kB
Vienna Declaration on the Status and Future of the World’s Large Rivers (April 2011)
117 kB
Ministerial Declaration “Save water, grow green!” (Astana, September 2011)
112 kB
Sustainable management of water and water-related ecosystems - Note by the Secretariat and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (Astana, September 2011)
212 kB
Astana Water Action (Astana, September 2011)
135 kB
The Bonn Declaration on Global Water Security (Bonn, 21-24 May 2013)
516 kB
"A Sustainable World is a Water Secure World" - The Budapest Water Summit Declaration (Budapest, October 2013)
83 kB
Joint Statement by the Head of Founder-States of the International Fund for the Aral Sea Saving (Almaty, 2009)
13 kB
Joint Communique of the Fifth High-level Conference on Environmental and Water Cooperation (October 2015, Milan)
27 kB
Advanced St. Petersburg Statement on the Aral Sea (October 2019, St. Petersburg)
56 kB