Looking at the Amudarya river basin in Central Asia, Ecologic Institute's Nicole Kranz, Holger Gerdes and Cornelius Laaser elaborate in this article on how the NeWater project assists with the development of new water governance tools in transboundary river basins. The article was published in the Fall 2008 issue of Schlossplatz³ by the Hertie School of Governance.

Transboundary river basin management, in itself a complex subject due to the variety of countries and stakeholders involved, is facing increasing challenges due to new social, economic and climate-change drivers. In this article, Tom Raadgever, Erik Mostert, Nicole Kranz, Eduard Interwies, and Jos Timmerman analyse the regime features that contribute to adaptive management of these basins.

Nicole Kranz and Antje Vorwerk of Ecologic paid a visit to the Amudarya Basin in Uzbekistan in May 2006. Main research interests were the information exchange in transboundary river basin management and the co-ordination of international donor organisations in their support for regional water management strategies in the Amudarya Basin. A central event during this trip was the ‘Workshop on Information Exchange in Transboundary River Basins’, held in Urgench, Uzbekistan, organised in co-operation with the Tashkent Institute for Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanisation (TIIM). Experts and scientists from the three main riparian states of the Amudarya – Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan – participated in this international workshop.

Kranz N., E. Interwies, A. Vorwerk (2005): Transboundary regimes in the Amudarya basin, Appendix to Deliverable 1.3.1 of the NeWater project, Berlin.

Kranz, Nicole et al. 2005: NeWater deliverable 1.3.2 Adaptive Water Management in Transboundary contexts. Common Research Agenda. Ecologic, RBA, RIZA, Berlin.

Kranz, N., E. Interwies, R. Vidaurre (2005): Transboundary Regimes in the Orange Senqu Basin, Contribution to Deliverable 1.3.1 of the NeWater Project, Berlin.

Kranz, N., E. Interwies, A. Vorwerk, A. von Raggamby. Governance, Institutions and Participation in the Orange-Senqu Basin. Report to NeWater project, Berlin, 2005.