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Contents
- Preliminary Material
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface to the Third Edition
- Abbreviations
- Table of Treaties by Name of Watercourse
- Amazon
- Aral Sea
- Aras and Atrak Rivers
- Chad
- Colorado
- Columbia
- Congo River
- Danube
- Devil’s Lake
- Drava
- Gambia
- Ganges
- Great Lakes
- Gut Dam
- Indus
- Lake Constance
- Lake Ladoga
- Lake Titicaca
- Lake Victoria
- Mahakali
- Mekong
- Meuse
- Niagara
- Niger
- Nile
- Owen Falls Dam
- Paraná
- Plate or Plata
- Rhine
- Rhone
- Rio Grande
- Scheldt
- Senegal
- Tigris and Euphrates
- Tijuana
- Tresa
- Uruguay
- Yarmuk
- Table of Treaties and Other Instruments by Name
- Table of Cases and Arbitrations
- Main Text
- Part I Introduction
- 1 Human Use of Fresh Water and the Era of Water Scarcity
- 2 The Concept and Reality of the International Watercourse System
- Part II Evolution and Theoretical Bases of the Law of International Watercourses
- 3 The Evolution of the Law of International Watercourses
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- A Historical Background: The Evolution of International Water Law
- B Practical and Conceptual Impediments to the Development of the Law
- C The Theoretical Problem
- D Precursors
- E Indicia of the Evolution of the Law
- Conclusion
- 4 The Theoretical Bases of International Watercourse Law: An Examination of the Four Principal Theories
- 5 The Contribution of the Law of Navigation
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- A Early Practice
- B Navigation in the Major Peace Treaties, 1648–1921, and their Progeny
- C Theoretical and Practical Bases of Freedom of Navigation on International Waterways
- D The Contribution of International Courts and Tribunals
- E The Contribution of Learned Societies
- Conclusions
- 3 The Evolution of the Law of International Watercourses
- Part III The Major Cases and Controversies: A Survey of State Practice
- Preliminary Material
- 6 The Major Cases
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- A Decisions of International Courts and Tribunals
- 1 Judicial decisions
- a The River Oder case
- b The Diversion of Water from the Meuse case
- c The Corfu Channel case
- d The Gabčíkovo-Nagymaros Project case
- e The Pulp Mills case
- f The San Juan River cases
- 2 Arbitral awards
- 1 Judicial decisions
- B Decisions of National Courts
- Conclusion
- 7 Selected Case Studies
- Part IV Fundamental Rights and Obligations
- 8 Introduction: The 1997 United Nations Convention and its Precursors
- A Substantive Obligations
- Preliminary Material
- 9 Equitable and Reasonable Utilization
- 10 The Obligation to Prevent Harm to Other Riparian States
- 11 The Obligation to Protect International Watercourses and Their Ecosystems
- B Procedural Obligations
- C Groundwater
- 13 The Special Case of Groundwater
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- A Scope: The Nature of Shared Groundwater Resources and the Challenges for International Legal Regulation
- B Groundwater in State Practice
- C The Work of International Non-Governmental Organizations and Expert Groups
- D The United Nations Watercourses Convention and the Work of the International Law Commission
- Conclusions
- 13 The Special Case of Groundwater
- D Dispute Avoidance and Settlement
- Part I Introduction
- Further Material
- Annex I United Nations Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses (1997) with Statements of Understanding regarding certain provisions of the UN Convention
- Annex
- Part I Introduction
- Part II General Principles
- Part III Planned Measures
- Part IV Protection, Preservation and Management
- Part V Harmful Conditions And Emergency Situations
- Part VI Miscellaneous Provisions
- Part VII Final Clauses
- Appendix
- Annex II International Law Commission, Resolution on Confined Transboundary Groundwater (1994)
- Bibliography
- Index
- Annex I United Nations Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses (1997) with Statements of Understanding regarding certain provisions of the UN Convention