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>From: "Jesper & Nicolette Nielsen" <jesniel@...>
>Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
>Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Lake Constanz
>Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 21:02:33 +0200
>
>I have received more news on Lake Constanz and some surprising news on the
>river Rhine from Switzerland:
>
>"You are right: Germany, Austria and Switzerland did not yet find a
>agreement
>on the boarder in the Lake of Constance (Bodensee). The border is not
>defined, mainly because Austria is opposed. Various possibilities were
>discussed for dozens of years. Austria aimed a Condominium. That would mean
>one third of the surface for each country. By that, if for instance oil was
>found, Austria would have had one third of the resulting income. As Germany
>now uses the water of the lake for the watersupply of towns, for example
>Stuttgart, the country feared, that it might have to pay for, if clear
>bordres are determined. Beside the condominium other solutions were
>discussed: centerline or till a certain debth of the lake belonging to a
>country and the deeper parts in commun etc.
>Even tough the border is not determined, there are clear trilateral rules
>for the practical needs: fishing, pollution, police, navigation etc.
>
>By the way: in many areas also the border of the Rhine (Rhein) is not
>clearly determined between Germany and Switzerland ."
>
>Jesper
>
>

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