This UNECE convention is intended to strengthen national measures for the protection and ecologically sound management of transboundary surface water and groundwater.

The Convention obliges Parties to prevent, control and reduces water pollution from point and non-point sources and includes provisions for monitoring, research and development, consultations, warning and alarm systems, mutual assistance, institutional arrangements, and the exchange and protection of information, as well as public access to information.

This website includes information about the Water Convention, the Protocol on Water and Health, the Protocol on Civil Liability, water and industrial accidents, meetings, transboundary cooperation, documents, publications and related links.

IWAC, the Collaborating Centre for monitoring & assessment activities, has been established under the UN/ECE Convention on Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes. IWAC will be a virtual platform of leading European institutes in the field of water management.