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Several lakes and rivers cross the boundaries between countries. Management of transboundary waters is complicated. One government cannot act on its own: cooperation between riparian countries is required to ensure good water quality and sustainable development in the shared water basins. The number of agreements on transboundary waters in Europe is today approximately 160 and shows an increasing trend (Figure 10.1). This reflects an urgent need to co-operate on management of shared water resources. However, the co-operation is not easy to achieve and there are various obstacles, such as differences in water management legislation, institutional structures and practices that stem from differences in languages, cultures as well as physical and political geography of different states. The history of developing co-operation on transboundary waters shows that ‘ co-operation is a striking achievement wheneverchrw ... it occurs, and there is every reason to believe that co-operation will become more elusivechrw ... as growing human populations, enhanced capabilities, and rising expectations generate more severe conflicts of interest as well as greater demands on the earth’s natural systems’ (Young 1989: 4).
The following persons are acknowledged for their contribution: Ülo Sults (Tartu Environmental Research Ltd.); Anatoli Vasiliev (Tallinn Technical University); Boris Skakalsky (State Hydrological Institute); Alla Botina (Pskov Regional Committee for Environmental Protection); Karin Pachel (Estonian Ministry of Environment, Environment Information Centre); Tatiana Maltsman (Swedish Environmental Protection Agency); Tiina Nôges (Tartu University); Milli Kangur (Institute of Zoology and Botany); Madis Saluver and Olga Vassilenko (Peipsi Center for Transboundary Co-operation).
The authors are grateful to the Estonian Ministry of Environment, the Russian Hydrometeorological Centre and Pskov Regional Committee of Environmental Protection for providing environmental data on e.g. water quality and water discharge. We also acknowledge all other participants that in one way or another have contributed to this report.
The Swedish EPA, the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the European Union (contract No. EVKI-CT-2000-00076) are acknowledged for their financial contribution.
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Stålnacke, P., Roll, G. (2002). Lake Peipsi: A Transboundary Lake on the Future Border of the European Union. In: Hedegaard, L., Lindström, B., Joenniemi, P., Östhol, A., Peschel, K., Stålvant, CE. (eds) The NEBI YEARBOOK 2001/2002. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-13181-7_10
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