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Governance of Shared Waters - Legal and Institutional Issues
… a shared river, a shared basin and an international watercourse? 1.2 How are different water basin States … but to international watercourses. The international watercourse is no longer defined as a geographical area but … as a geographic area. It is therefore broader than a watercourse. The additional definition of a water basin, …
D1 - Ecosystem Approach and Ecosystem Services
… UNWC adopted the purportedly more restrictive concept of a watercourse, the introduction of the principle of ecosystem … one State,[10] as long as they belong to an international watercourse. [1] A similar provision is found in the 2008 … UNWC.[1] Equitable and reasonable use of an international watercourse must aim at “attaining optimal and sustainable …
Shared resources: Issues of governance
… African Development Community Experience in Shared Watercourse Governance … 58 4.3 The need for shared watercourse governance in SADC … 66 4.6.5 Shared watercourse agreements … Many of the case studies in this volume analyze particular watercourse agreements in the context of the 1997 convention. …
Flow : The essentials of environmental flows
… such as the release of chemicals and wastes into the watercourse. Stage 3: Commissioning a trial period All the … can be adjusted in agreements between States sharing a watercourse. It requires States to protect and preserve the … on alien species. States located within an international watercourse have an obligation to co-operate in the …
National Regulation of Freshwater resources - extract from InforMEA e-learning course
… prescribes a specific quality standard for a particular watercourse, effectively proscribing pollution that would … aquifers that are hydrologically connected with a surface watercourse. In such circumstances, groundwater extraction …