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1 Tianbao, Q. 2007. China’s peaceful development and global climate change: a legal perspective. Law, Environment and Development Journal, 3(1): 54-69.
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2 McCaffrey, S. C.; Neville, K. J. 2010. The politics of sharing water: international law, sovereignty, and transboundary rivers and aquifers. In Wegerich, Kai; Warner, J. (Eds.). The politics of water: a survey. London, UK: Routledge. pp.18-44.
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With increasing recognition of a global crisis in water resources, it becomes relevant to ask whether existing legal systems can make serious contributions to the management of the earth's water resources. This article examines the evolution of national water law and its key features, the coevolution of international water law, and a new focus in the twenty-first century to develop global water law against a backdrop of growing pluralism in water governance. In the past, national and international water law has generally reflected prevailing social beliefs and state practice rather than shaped them. However, contemporary developments in national and international water law suggest that an emergent global law is increasingly shaping practice instead of merely reflecting it. This global law seeks proactively to influence future water management, rather than being limited by past decisions.
5 Islam, M. R.; Alam, S. 2008. Interlinking of rivers in India: international and regional legal aspects. In Mirza, M. M. Q.; Ahmed, A. U.; Ahmad, Q. K. (Eds.). Interlinking of rivers in India: issues and concerns. Leiden, Netherlands: CRC Press. pp.219-233.
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6 Brichieri-Colombi, S. 2008. Could Bangladesh benefit from the river linking project? In Mirza, M. M. Q.; Ahmed, A. U.; Ahmad, Q. K. (Eds.). Interlinking of rivers in India: issues and concerns. Leiden, Netherlands: CRC Press. pp.261-274.
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9 Drieschova, A.; Giordano, Mark; Fishhendler, I. 2009. Climate change, international cooperation and adaptation in transboundary water management. In Adger, W. N.; Lorenzoni, I.; O’Brien, K.L. (Eds.). Adapting to climate change: thresholds, values, governance. New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press. pp.384-398.
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The relevance of the main instruments of international water law to the hydraulic development projects of later-developing upstream states is explored, for a non-legal audience. Relevance is gauged by querying common misperceptions, checking the compatibility of the instruments, and considering their effect along the Nile, Jordan and Tigris Rivers and associated aquifers. Specific principles of international water law are found to support upstream development in theory, though its relevance is threatened by incompatibility of clauses between the instruments, the erosion of norm-building processes, and a shift away from the idea that territorial sovereignty over a fluid resource should be limited.
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The problems of water management, including water scarcity, ecosystem degradation, and water related disasters are expected to be exacerbated by global trends such as climate changes, population growth, urban sprawl, and food uncertainty. In particular, population growth and climate change may have a considerable impact on agricultural water management goal of ensuring enough food for world’s population. Such a situation calls for a new awareness on the role of international water law and for a full recognition of common ethical principles which must be applied at a world-wide and local levels. The aim of the paper is twofold: first, to review the recent efforts at reinforcing a legislative framework on water cooperation as well as on water rights, and second, to identify a set of ethical principles which can improve water governance and management at different levels. These principles – either drawn from the evolution of key-concepts within the “water box” or derived from general environmental and social ethics – represent the basics for achieving ethical responsibility in integrated, sustainable, and equitable water resource development, particularly for agricultural use.
14 de Villiers, M. 2015. Back to the well: rethinking the future of water. Fredericton, NB, Canada: Goose Lane Editions. 378p.
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15 Lindblom, A.-K. 2012. Non-governmental organisations in international law. New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press. 559p. (Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law)
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16 Pateiro, L. M. 2016. Ad hoc legal mechanisms governing transboundary aquifers: current status and future prospects. Water International, 41(6):851-865. (Special issue: Legal Mechanisms for Water Resources in Practice: Select Papers from the XV World Water Congress). [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2016.1201964]
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In recent years, different international institutions have repeatedly called for states to enter into agreements on the transboundary aquifers they share. Nevertheless, very few agreements have been established. This article examines the few ad hoc legal mechanisms that are in existence, and identifies some possible reasons for states’ reluctance. Finally, this article suggests that there is a need for the international community to stimulate a more cooperative approach to the management of this natural resource based on the preventive and precautionary principles.
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The flux of foreign investment into the water industry that took place over recent decades had a significant impact on the relationship between water companies and states. The creation of a global network of international investment agreements also altered the method of adjudication of possible disputes between the parties. The emergence of global water markets and the advent of Public–Private Partnerships led to the emergence of what has been called Global Water Governance. This articles analyses how the decisions of arbitral tribunals in water-related disputes are becoming an integral part of this global regulatory system and discusses their impact on water services governance. Governments are increasingly required to have a thorough knowledge of the functioning and possible implications of the legal frameworks that underpin foreign investments in the water services market.
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19 Gupta, J.; Conti, K. 2017. Global climate change and global groundwater law: their independent and pluralistic evolution and potential challenges. Water International, 42(6):741-756. (Special issue: Groundwater and Climate Change - Multi-Level Law and Policy). [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2017.1354415]
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Although the climate and groundwater systems have close links, the international climate change regime and global groundwater laws have developed independently, despite being negotiated within a few years of each other. Hence this article addresses the question: Do global legal instruments on climate change and groundwater consider the geophysical links between the two systems, and how can their legal frameworks be improved? It argues that there are six geophysical links between groundwater and climate change which are presently inadequately accounted for in the legal regimes and there are four key contradictions between the two legal systems. It makes four recommendations to enhance the linkages between the systems.
20 Stoltenborg, D.; Boelens, R. 2017. Goldmining, dispossessing the commons, and multi-scalar responses: the case of Cerro de San Pedro, Mexico. In Suhardiman, Diana; Nicol, Alan; Mapedza, Everisto (Eds.). Water governance and collective action: multi-scale challenges. Oxon, UK: Routledge - Earthscan. pp.120-130.
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