What does IJC stand for?

He said the International Joint Commission, a bi-national body that oversees boundary waters issues between the United States and Canada, specifically told him so.

Clinton was in Ontario to mark the 100th anniversary of the Boundary Waters Treaty of 1909, which created an international joint commission to settle disputes between the two countries.

With the Great Lakes and other bodies of water, around 40 percent of the US-Canadian boundary is water, according to the independent International Joint Commission set up by the treaty to prevent and resolve boundary disputes.

Great Lakes Areas of Concern, which was undertaken by a division of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at the request of the International Joint Commission, an independent bilateral organization that advises the U.

Accountability in the Lake Huron Basin: the International Joint Commission Perspective.

The papers discuss patterns of treaty making over international rivers, bilateral cooperation on river development between South Africa and Lesotho, the political economy of water supply in the Pacific Island region, the nature of national domestic conflicts over water resources in Bangladesh and China, comparative river basin management in the US and South Korea, the International Joint Commission formed by Canada and the United States to resolve boundary water conflicts, the establishment of the Mekong River Commission in Southeast Asia, Cold War hydropolitics in Southern Africa, water management conflicts in the Niger River Basin of West Africa, and water as commodity and source of conflict in Australia.

Schornack was appointed by Bush in April 2001, weeks after he was appointed to the International Joint Commission, a body that manages waterways shared by Canada and the U.

A great deal has been written about the history and function of the International Joint Commission.