ABSTRACT

A closer look at the world’s international basins gives a greater sense of the magnitude of the issues. First, the problem is growing. There were 214 international basins listed in 1978 (United Nations, 1978), the last time any official body attempted to delineate them, and there are 261 today. The growth is largely the result of the ‘internationalization’ of national basins through political changes, such as the break up of the Soviet Union and the Balkan states, as well as access to today’s better mapping sources and technology.