Common use of Classifying Transboundary Waters Clause in Contracts

Classifying Transboundary Waters. Operationally, the RIM approach involves assigning Transboundary Waters to one of four classes (Figure 1), defining Bilateral Water Management actions commensurate with the class, and establishing a structured and transparent process for Bilateral Water Management. Classifications will be applied to Transboundary Waters at the border. The classification will consider development and use in the contributing basin as well as downstream needs. Bilateral Water Management actions may be directed at those contributing water bodies, but the classification is applied at the border. Criteria for classifying Transboundary Waters will be based on the type and magnitude of development along with other quantitative and qualitative factors. Classification will consider both existing and projected development, based on a detailed five-year development forecast, as well as consider the longer-term (ten-year) outlook. Assignment of a transboundary water body to a particular class will be a joint decision by the Parties and will include consideration of First Nations’ and Aboriginal peoples’ traditional uses in whose territory the classified Transboundary Waters are located.

Classifying Transboundary Waters. Operationally, the RIM approach involves assigning Transboundary Waters to one of four classes (Figure 1), defining Bilateral Water Management actions commensurate with the class, and establishing a structured and transparent process for Bilateral Water Management. Classifications will be applied to Transboundary Waters at the border. The classification will consider development and use in the contributing basin as well as downstream needs. Bilateral Water Management actions may be directed at those contributing water bodies, but the classification is applied at the border. Criteria for classifying Transboundary Waters will be based on the type and magnitude of development along with other quantitative and qualitative factors. Classification will consider both existing and projected development, based on a detailed five-year development forecast, as well as consider the longer-term (ten-ten- year) outlook. Assignment of a transboundary water body to a particular class will be a joint decision by the Parties and will include consideration of First Nations’ and Aboriginal Indigenous peoples’ traditional uses in whose territory the classified Transboundary Waters are located.

Classifying Transboundary Waters. ‌ Operationally, the RIM approach involves assigning Transboundary Waters to one of four classes (Figure 1), defining Bilateral Water Management actions commensurate with the class, and establishing a structured and transparent process for Bilateral Water Management. Classifications will be applied to Transboundary Waters at the border. The classification will consider development and use in the contributing basin as well as downstream needs. Bilateral Water Management actions may be directed at those contributing water bodies, but the classification is applied at the border. Criteria for classifying Transboundary Waters will be based on the type and magnitude of development along with other quantitative and qualitative factors. Classification will consider both existing and projected development, based on a detailed five-year development forecast, as well as consider the longer-term (ten-year) outlook. Assignment of a transboundary water body to a particular class will be a joint decision by the Parties and will include consideration of First Nations’ and Aboriginal Indigenous peoples’ traditional uses in whose territory the classified Transboundary Waters are located.

Classifying Transboundary Waters. Operationally, the RIM approach involves assigning Transboundary Waters to one of four classes (Figure 1), defining Bilateral Water Management actions commensurate with the class, and establishing a structured and transparent process for Bilateral Water Management. Classifications will be applied to Transboundary Waters at the border. The classification will consider development and use in the contributing basin as well as downstream needs. Bilateral Water Management actions may be directed at those contributing water bodies, but the classification is applied at the border. Criteria for classifying Transboundary Waters will be based on the type and magnitude of development along with other quantitative and qualitative factors. Classification will consider both existing and projected development, based on a detailed five-year development forecast, as well as consider the longer-term (ten-year) outlook. Assignment of a transboundary water body to a particular class will be a joint decision by the Parties and will include consideration of First Nations’ and Aboriginal Indigenous peoples’ traditional uses in whose territory the classified Transboundary Waters are located.