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Contents
- Preliminary Material
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface to the Second 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
- Plata
- Rhine
- Rhone
- Rio Grande
- Scheldt
- Senegal
- Tigris and Euphrates
- 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 Water and the Coming Era of Water Scarcity
- 2 The Concept of the International Watercourse System
- Part II Theoretical Bases of the Law of International Watercourses
- 3 Theoretical Bases of International Watercourse Law: Introductory Considerations
- 4 International Watercourses as Exclusively National Resources: The “Harmon Doctrine” in United States Practice
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- A The Dispute between the United States and Mexico over the Use of Rio Grande Waters In the Late Nineteenth Century
- B The “Harmon Doctrine” in the Context of Other United States Practice
- 1 Threatened flooding of land in Idaho by a dam in British Columbia
- 2 Negotiation of the 1909 Boundary Waters Treaty
- 3 The U.S. position in the Trail Smelter arbitration
- 4 Negotiation of the 1944 Treaty concerning the Colorado and Tijuana Rivers and the Lower Rio Grande
- 5 Consideration of the 1944 Treaty in the U.S. Senate
- 6 The dispute between the U.S. and Canada over the Columbia River
- Conclusions
- 5 The Theoretical Basis of International Watercourse Law: An Examination of the Four Principal Theories
- 6 The Contribution of the Law of Navigation
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- Conclusions
- Part III The Major Cases and Controversies: A Survey of State Practice
- Preliminary Material
- 7 The Major Cases
- 8 Selected Case Studies
- Part IV Fundamental Rights and Obligations
- 9 Introduction: The 1997 United Nations Convention
- A Substantive Obligations
- Preliminary Material
- 10 Equitable and Reasonable Utilization
- 11 The Obligation to Prevent Harm to Other Riparian States
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- 1 The status of the no-harm rule and its relationship to equitable utilization
- 2 The meaning of “harm”
- 3 The two-way operation of the no-harm rule
- A Sic utere tuo
- B Case Law
- C International Instruments
- D The Applicable Threshold of Harm and Its Significance
- E Reconciling the “No-Harm” and Equitable-Utilization Obligations
- F The Required Standard of Conduct
- Conclusions concerning the “No-Harm” Obligation
- 12 The Obligation to Protect International Watercourses and Their Ecosystems
- B Procedural Obligations
- C Groundwater
- 14 The Special Case of Groundwater
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- Conclusions
- 14 The Special Case of Groundwater
- D Dispute Avoidance and Settlement
- Part I Introduction
- Further Material
