GIWA focused on environmental aspects of water, comprising surface and ground waters as well as coastal and marine waters.

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Foreign fishing vessels have open access to Somali coastal waters.

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It also looked at integrated coastal area and river basin management, which links freshwater and coastal and marine systems, highlighting land based sources of activities affecting the quality and uses of the coastal and marine environment.

The coastal waters are rich in fish, which provide the primary export of the agriculture fisheries sector.

It runs down the rivers, and it feeds the plankton, the little microscopic plant cells in the coastal water.

The project, based on collaboration with water experts globally, collected data and information in 66 GIWA subregions on the state of international waters, freshwater basins, transboundary rivers, coastal marine waters and large marine ecosystems.

From January through July 2005, incidents of piracy in Somali coastal waters have been fairly common and are listed in annex V.

Somalia continues to be without an effective central Government to control and administer its coastal waters.

Somalia coastal waters offer significant potential for exploitation of marine resources, which include very rich fishing grounds.

Somalia's coastal and offshore waters are dangerous for the innocent passage of fishing vessels, traditional boats, yachts and commercial vessel traffic.

Threats of flooding in the Ecuadorian coastal region

A study of the optical properties of coastal waters is extremely useful in measuring concentrations of relevant constituents of the water column as well as determining depth and bottom topography.

Each regional CDU will prepare one or more customized courses on a coastal or ocean management issue of relevance to the GEF International Waters projects and to priority global waters issues.

(b) National and regional capacity in the field of IMCAM

Such action will facilitate the work of IHO and IMO to convince Governments of coastal States to discharge their responsibility for surveying and charting waters under their jurisdiction with a view to improving the safety of navigation and the protection of the marine environment.

In November 2004, the owners selected a crew and advised crew members that they would be fishing in Kenyan waters off the coastal cities of Lamu and Malindi.

For example, all the 47 incidents of piracy reported for East Africa by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) from 1998 to June 2004 took place in Somali coastal waters.

(c) Coastal and marine resource issues should be addressed through the adoption of integrated coastal area management for the sustainable development of the marine environment and resources, including fisheries and aquaculture at the national and regional levels

Shoreline development often intensifies coastal erosion, alters the hydrology of estuaries and disrupts natural processes.

As a result, Somali coastal waters are under the control of a number of different local administrations or self appointed militias, led by a faction leader.

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The vessel left the port on 2 December and fished the coastal waters between Mogadishu and Kismaayo.

(iv) Coastline relocation programme for low income families construction of houses flats to relocate families living in the coastline area to provide them with a better living environment and improve the coastal environment

It has an open ocean subsystem to improve weather and climate forecasting and a coastal one for coastal seas.

In that connection, UNEP and SPREP will work on a realistic and achievable work programme which will focus on regional seas, coastal degradation, land based sources of pollution, integrated watershed and coastal area management, waste management and promotion of the White Water to Blue Water Initiative, which is already being implemented in the Caribbean.

(b) Information management in the North West Pacific Action Plan (NOWPAP) directory of coastal and marine experts and institutions bibliography on coastal and marine environments in the region and feasibility report on GIS applications in coastal marine environment for NOWPAP.

Near the coastline, SAR images had also found applications to aquaculture, mangrove forestry and coastal monitoring.

Near coastlines, SAR images have also found applications in aquaculture, mangrove forestry and coastal monitoring.

I hasten to add that such measures should include those taken at national and regional levels with regard to waters under national jurisdiction, particularly those belonging to coastal developing countries.

Mr. Klein said that some first order effects of climate change on coastal zones are sea level rise, increases in seawater temperature, increased precipitation intensity, changes in wave climate, storm frequency, river run off, and enhanced productivity in coastal ecosystems due to increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide.

Coastal and marine resources

The soil and coastal waters of the island polluted by substances such as lead, depleted uranium and arsenic, whose presence was a serious threat to public health needed urgent decontamination.

Kuwait determines the areas requiring remediation by identifying areas of high levels of oil contamination (TPH at or above 100mg kg ) that correspond to low levels of RSA species richness (three or less in areas which, according to Kuwait, normally contain a richness of 10 to 14).

Coordination with the navy and customs in order to control Tunisian waters.

Similarly, UNIDO's services in the field of water management provide for the transfer of ESTs to prevent discharges of industrial effluents into international waters (rivers, lakes, wetlands and coastal areas) and thereby protect water resources for future generations. This aims of this service include

Marine and coastal living resources

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Some land ecosystems are threatened in the long term and coastal freshwater resources might be in danger in the case of further sea level rise.

Recognizing the importance of integrated, multidisciplinary and multisectoral coastal and ocean management at the national, subregional and regional levels,

You see the rivers which are coming along the coast, and you see that white area which looks like Catalina Island, and that looks like an ocean.

The Chinese mainland's coasts are surrounded by the Bohai sea, the Yellow Sea, the East China sea and the South China sea.

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The Caspian Sea being a body of water having no natural link with the global ocean in other words, a lake it is therefore not subject to the provisions of the international law of the sea, including those of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, unless agreed upon mutatis mutandis by all coastal States.