The word 'riparian' is correct and usable in written English.
It is an adjective that refers to anything that is related to or located along the banks of a river or other body of water. Example: The riparian zone along the river was teeming with lush vegetation and diverse wildlife.
On December 11th the Mekong River Commission (MRC)—an intergovernmental body of the four riverside, or riparian, states (Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam) along the lower Mekong held a public consultation over Laos's plan to dam the river two kilometres north of its border with Cambodia.Along with Vietnam, Laos's other downstream neighbour, Cambodia is unhappy with the Don Sahong dam project.
All are subject to the MRC consultation process, which is designed to improve dialogue among the riparian countries as well as the management of the river.
Through fishing, aquaculture and irrigation, it sustains 65m people.Since September 2010 there has been an ongoing consultation process among the four riparian countries party to the Mekong River Commission (MRC)—Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand about whether the Xayaburi project should be approved or blocked.
The intricate network of western water rights, some riparian and some based on first use, is absurdly complex.
After all, say officials at the commission, co-operation among the riparian states, like the river itself, should flow in both directions.
Although MRC rules require countries to submit proposed dam projects on the Mekong for prior consultation (to allow other riparian governments and interested parties to voice their concerns), it is toothless.
The Western Watersheds Project, whose aim is to restore wet riparian habitat to the west's arid state- and federal-owned lands, bought a ranch that came with a 40,000-acre grazing allotment on the Challis National Forest in Idaho.
In Sindh province, the lower riparian, this has caused uproar.
This would disrupt their breeding cycles and might wreck the livelihoods of the riparian population.
By 2010 it will have cost $735m, according to a recent report by a team from the World Bank and the African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control.The campaign has saved the sight of 600,000 people in west Africa and opened up 25m hectares of fertile, riparian land a new frontier to plot, settle and sow.
Take the Nile, where the main riparian states, Egypt, Sudan, Uganda and Ethiopia, or their colonial masters have been watching each other's water use closely for a century at least—and Egypt usually gets its way.The Nile is vast.
