About the establishment of Asian River
Restoration Network

Transition of urban population ratio

Population Percentage

B. K.
Germany
U.S.A
FranceJapan
Indonesia
ChinaIndia
Korea

Thailand

出典： UN「World urbanlization Prosects The 1994 Revision」

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River environment weeded out byprocess of leading life of people

Problems of Rivers and waterfront environment
By the rapid population increase and development according
to economic growth...
– Water quality deterioration– Reclamation of river– Deterioration of habitat– Disappearance of hydrophile property– etc.

Activities and research on river and watershedrestoration are being carried out throughout the world.
These activities are broad in scope, and include….
•Urban landscaping•Improvement of riverfront amenities•Restoration of former river beds
•Restoration of the natural environment
•etc.

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Restoration study case in Yangtze River

Before the removal of the highway

Cheonggyecheon ; Korea

after the removal of the highway

Some Efforts ofRestoration in Asia

3Singapore River ; Singapore

・City Planning: Singapore Model・Restoration of river/ purification of river water・Garden Islands; 70~80% of country nationalized

Restoration study case in Ara River
Ｂｅｆｏｒｅ1950’sBank protection

Restore tidal flat

All photos are offered from AraKawa-Karyu River Office4

Site under Nature Restoration

The nature restoration
project is executed in 31
sites in the wholecountry.

Current Discussion

The 3rd World Water Forum
International Erosion
Control Information
NetworkIFNet as “InternationalFlood Network”

Asia River Restoration
Network
2005.1.19〜20 (Tokyo)• 1st International Forum on Waterfront andWatershed Restoration
2005.7.27 (Nagoya)• Workshop on International Networking forRiver Environment
2005.10.28 (Tokyo)• 3rd International Forum on Waterfront andWatershed Restoration“Guidelines for Restoration by EcoCompatible and Adaptive Management inRiver Basin” was made in 3rd WWF.

The 4th World Water Forum

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Summary of Discussion in WWF4
• River restoration is of vital importance to socio-economic
sustainable development in parallel with flood
management and water use management.
• To recognize that the basin as a basic unit for riverenvironment management.
• It is necessary for the countries in Asian region toestablish the suitable methodology and technology forriver restoration.
• It is important to develop a database and Asian networkof projects and knowledge of international experts in riverrestoration.
• It is urgent to establish a river restoration guideline
suitable for the Asian monsoon region for countries withsimilar social and natural conditions.

International trend
Various International Network about river and watershedenvironment has been established recently.

6Why is network for river and waterfront
focusing on Asia are necessary?

Discussion between countries in similargeological and meteorological condition will
provide more improved technology for richriver environment restoration

Outline of ARRN Activities
Public relations• Activities involving exchanging and sharing information
through the newsletter and on the web-site

Technological support• To hold workshops, forums with a view to sharing latest
waterfront environment improvement projects• To draw up or revise guidelines for the restoration• To dispatch lecturers mutually on participating countries

Research and studies• To conduct joint studies to be undertaken by participatingcountries• Support the provision of information with a view to studies

Publication• To translate and publish books on the restoration of rivers
and watershed

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Object region
Information Exchange

EuropeUnitedStates

Asia

InformationExchange

ARRN shall allow the free participation of any administrative institution,
private organization, NPO, researcher, individual and so on, no matter
which country or organization.
However ARRN will exchange the information especially about Asiandistrict.

Organization
Asian River Restoration Network (ARRN)
Governing Council

Secretariat

Chairman

China

Korea

China RRN

IWHRIndividuals

Other Regions& Countries

Japan

Korea RRN

KICTSecretary General

Individuals

Japan RRN

RFC

Individuals
Organizations

Organizations

Organizations

Secretariat
Organization

etc.

Individuals

Organizations

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