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The Boundaries of the Law of International Watercourses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

René Uruena*
Affiliation:
Centre of Excellence in Global Governance Research (University of Helsinki)

Abstract

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Type
If Water Respects No Political Boundaries, Does Politics Respect Transboundary Waters?
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 2008

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References

1 For a recent example, see UNDP, 2006 Human Development Report “Beyond Scarcity: Power, Poverty and the Global Water Crisis” (2006).

2 See Riles, Annelise, Anthropology, Human Rights, and Legal Knowledge: Culture in the Iron Cage, 108 Am. Anthropologist 52 (2006)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3 G.A. Res. 51/229, Annex. U.N. Doc. A/51/49.

4 See Case Concerning the Gabèfkovo-Nagymaros Project (Hungary/Slovakia), 1997 I.C.J. 7, paras. 85, 147 (Sept. 25).

5 See ILC, Second Report on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses, U.N. Doc. A/CN.4/399 (1986), paras. 75-178 (prepared by Stephen C. McCaffrey).

6 I.C.J., supra note 4.

7 Id., par. 13.

8 Id., par. 85.

9 See World Bank, Water Resources Sector Strategy: Strategic Directions for World Bank Engagement - Policy Paper 28114 (2004).

10 See UNEP, Global International Waters Assessment, Challenges to International Waters -Regional Assessments in A Global Perspective (2006).

11 See, Introduction to Fresh Water and International Economic Law, 2 (Weiss, Edith Brown, de Chazournes, Laurence Boisson & Bemasconi-Osterwalder, Nathalie eds., 2005)Google Scholar.

12 See U.N. Econ. & Soc. Council [ECOSOC], General Comment 15: The Right to Water, U.N. Doc. E/C.12/2002/11 (2002).

13 See Brunnée, Jutta & Toope, Stephen J. Environmental Security and Freshwater Resources: Ecosystem Regime Building, 91 AJIL 26 (1997)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

14 ILC, Fragmentation of International Law: Difficulties arising from the Diversification and Expansion of International Law, U.N. Doc. A/CN.4/L.682 (2006), para. 487 (finalized by Martti Koskenniemi).

15 Case Concerning Pulp Mills on the River Uruguay (Argentina v. Uruguay), I.C.J. At the time of writing, following the Court Order of September 14 2007, the case was in its reply/rejoinder phase.