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A R A 0 V D ° 10 ° 6 S 0 N ° R C A NO R W E G I A N S E A T E E A S T A ° I C E 0 C O 6 Pevek ZEMLYA FRANTSA S 0 S I B E R I A N ° IOSSIFA Anadyr' 0 ° yr' 8 ad 1 S E A n A NOVOSIBIRSKIYE G Y N O R W A SEVERNAYA OSTROVA Cherskiy N Oslo ZEMLYA B A RE N T S I E N E D R DENMARK S E A LA P TE V Om W olo D I n E S L Y A nd E M A SE A ig N i B Murmansk Z E r k A S a Stockholm A Y Copenhagen A A K a L V R oly m I N O F N A K A Tiksi a E Helsinki K Dickson Y lin B S W a in A L C n g T I H A a r I T E a E S d Tallinn a K in ta Khatanga a 1 s e m St. Petersburg a h 2 c Arkhangel'sk y K R.F. h POLAND P Magadan 3 Riga Petrozavodsk Nar'yan Mar a S t L k Pskov e K k Warsaw e a Vilnius v o t e n 2 . hora Vorkuta Noril'sk u n a Novgorod D P ec y e 0 Dudinka l v Petropavlovsk- 0 ° ° i O 6 Minsk n Y Kamchatskiy 1 Cherepovets a e n Ukhta i s Vologda T e Kotlas a y S E A BELARUS Smolensk Tver' Salekhard z Igarka o r a g r ap Vol Yaroslavl' Syktyvkar Yakutsk L'viv y u Turukhansk n P O F D Moscow (Moskva) b O Bryansk ilyu n Nizhniy Tura V y a Kyiv ld OKHOTS K A Ryazan' Novgorod A I N nguska N iz u Orel a Kirov hnyaya T Mirnyy A Chisinau k O Surgut M Lipetsk Kazan' Serov O 4 UKRAIN E Kursk Perm' Izhevsk O R Nizhnevartovsk Saransk a l l o Pod e Voronezh am b kh ka k K a m a nipro Penza To V m s D e a e n r Nab. Chelny Yekaterinburg n u Od aya Tung Vitim Saratov Tyumen' usk m Donets'k Tobol'sk a A Ufa a D V a Samara Ir ' AROUNDn THE GLOBE o ol g ty Ket Y e Yuzhno- SEA OF n sh e L n a Sakhalinsk AZOV i r Sevastopol' s Anga Monitoring Chinese-Russian Magnitogorsk Chelyabinsk e Rostov- y Transboundary Waters l) BLAC K na-Donu Volgograd Orenburg ' a b Bratsk Yuqiong Liu, Ph.D. – SAHRA, University r Oral m Tomsk hi Omsk O U s Krasnoyarsk of Arizona SE A Krasnodar Elista ( Orsk I q Qostanay Novosibirsk Kemerovo Because of their strategic location, water y Stavropol' y resources associated with transboundary 4 a Aqtöbe 0 Astrakhan' h rivers and other water bodiesChita play ° Z - Novokuznetsk J Ankara Nal'chik Aturau Abakan an important role in regulating the a Astana Ulan-Ude A 5 l economic, trade, and cultural exchanges 0 a Barnaul 4 ° E between China and Russia. The Chinese- k Irkutsk P h r c t Russian transboundary river system TUR K E Y ha is Tbilisi Mak is largely located in the province of A D A ° ° Kyzyl S K AZA KHS TA N R N - A C Heilongjiang, China. It consists of I A N S E A T E E A S T A ° I C E 0 C O 6 Pevek ZEMLYA FRANTSA S Aqtau S I B E R I A N Anadyr' 6 IOSSIFA 0 ° Qaraghandy yr' 8 ad 1 S E A n A NOVOSIBIRSKIYE G SEVERNAYA OSTROVA Cherskiy N N Yerevan ZEMLYA Semey four rivers (Heilongjiang, Wusuli, B A RE N T S I Zhezqazghan R S E A LA P TE V Om olo D I n E L Y A nd E M A SE A ig N i B Murmansk Z E r k A S a A Y A A L Kol ma N V R y O A N Tiksi K Dickson Y Erguna, and Suifen) and Xingkai Lake a W n H A a I T E S E a K in ta Khatanga a n s e m St. Petersburg a h c Arkhangel'sk y K h P Magadan Ulaanbaatar a Petrozavodsk Nar'yan Mar S t L k e e K k e a v o t e n . hora Vorkuta Noril'sk u n a 7 A gorod D P ec y e l l Dudinka v Petropavlovsk- 0 ° i O SYRIAN n Y 6 Kamchatskiy 1 vets a e ARAL n Ukhta i r s (see map). In Russia, these waters are e Vologda T a y Kotlas Salekhard z Igarka S E A a g Yaroslavl' Syktyvkar r Yakutsk e u Turukhansk P O F E Moscow (Moskva) b O ilyu n 0 200 400 km Nizhniy Tura V y a Baku ld ARAB OKHOTS K azan' Novgorod A Niz nguska a Kirov hny Tu Mirnyy H k aya Kazan' Surgut Izhevsk Perm' Serov S Nizhnevartovsk O respectively referred to as the Amur, Saransk a l l o Pod e SEA am b h ka k k K a m Penza To V m e a n r Nab. Chelny Yekaterinburg n u aya itim REPUBLIC Saratov Tungusk V m Tyumen' Tobol'sk a A Ufa a V a Samara Ir t' n Yuzhno- ol g ty Ke Y e Komsomol'sk- sh e L n a Sakhalinsk i r na-Amure Vanino s Anga Skovorodino Magnitogorsk Chelyabinsk e y Qyzylorda ) l Orenburg ' a b Bratsk N r Tomsk Oral m hi Omsk O Khabarovsk U s Krasnoyarsk Blagoveshchensk ( Orsk I q Qostanay Novosibirsk Kemerovo U Ussuri, Arguni, Razdolnaya rivers and y s 100 200 250 mi y s 0 a Aqtöbe u h Chita r Z - Novokuznetsk i J Aturau r Abakan u Astana Ulan-Ude a A m u 40 ° Barnaul A h E Irkutsk g P r on SE A 4 ti S s A U - K AZA KHS TA N Kyzyl Aqtau Qaraghandy O F N N Zhezqazghan Semey Vladivostok 0 Ulaanbaatar n ARAL le Lake Khanka. Basic characteristics er JA P A N SEA H S Qyzylorda U S y MONGOLI A Tokyo Z r D.P.R. D A kmenbashi B a r OF KOREA E y y a P'ongyang Tokyo K Almaty TURKMENISTAN I I A S I Soul Ashgabat Tashkent li m T Beijing Z u REP. OF r A Bishkek N ° D 9 of these water bodies are listed in the a uan KOREA N H g r ary y n Locations of China-Russia transboundary rivers and the city of Jilin,ISLAMIC a P REPUBLIC Dushanbe YEL LO W D 8 S E A PA CI F I C N CHIN A OCE A N S T A N S N I A Turkmenbashi B H Kabul Jammu G table below. Water quality ranges from and CHIN A a where the November 2005 chemical spill occurred. F A Islamabad Kashmir 80 S E A A PAKISTAN 100 IRA Q C r ° ° ° E y good to poor (level I representing the a countries are necessary, as each country and Wusuli.P'ongyang The two sides are also TURKMENISTAN K Almaty best, and level V the worst). Rivers I identified as cross-border are those that has access only to its own part of the river. expected to conduct a joint feasibility S AshgabatA Tashkent Ili flow from one country into another; study on pollutionSoul prevention/control m T As industrial,Beijing agricultural, and other for the two rivers and to work together u A Bishkek boundary rivers form the political REP. OF N socioeconomic developments become on other environmental issues. D 9 boundary between the two countries. KOREA a N Huang increasingly active in the China-Russia r ary y n Response to Water Pollution a Joint Monitoring of Cross-Border Rivers border regions, environmental problems ISLAMIC and Other Emergencies For cross-border rivers, water quality in these regions, especially water Timely warnings and quick responses REPUBLIC Dushanbe monitoring is relatively easy, as both quality problems, have intensified. Over YEL LO W to unexpected water pollution accidents countries can conduct tests on a whole the past few years, the two countries OF 8 in transboundary rivers are critical cross section of the river within their have increasingly cooperated on water S E A PA CI F I C to minimize the potential damage IRA N CHINown territories. Water qualityA monitoring conservation and environmental protection to ecosystems and those who live OCE A N T A N is more difficult for boundary rivers, efforts in the border river areas. Both I S along the river in both countries. N Dotted line represents approximately the Line of Control and coordinated efforts between the two countries recognize each other’s water A Kabul H Jammu in Jammu and Kashmir agreed upon by India and Pakistan. quality standards, assessment and On Nov. 13, 2005, a chemical plant G The final status of Jammu and Kashmir has not yet been technological systems, and set up a blast in the city of JilinCHIN in northeastA F and working group and expert team for agreed upon by the parties.