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Preparing national regulations for water resources management: Principles and practice (2nd edition)

… 140 6. PREVENTING WATER POLLUTION THROUGH PRECAUTIONARY PRESCRIPTIONS … of such legislation involves settling issues of policy and principle on the one hand, and matters of implementing detail …
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E2 - Prevention of Aquifer Pollution

… to avoid effluent in line with the polluter-pays principle. For landfills, regulations on siting, operation, … the core obligations of international water law, and the precautionary principle. 4.2. UN Draft Articles on … harm to other aquifer States. Aquifer States shall take a precautionary approach in view of uncertainty about the …
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Groundwater in international law: Compilation of treaties and other legal instruments

… on Environment and Development which states, in its Principle 2, that States have, in accordance with the Charter … shall be guided by the following principles: (a) The precautionary principle, by virtue of which action to avoid … by the following principles and approaches: (a) The precautionary principle, by virtue of which action to …
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The greening of water law: Managing freshwater resources for people and the environment

… and allocation of freshwater resources. These include the principle of equitable and reasonable utilization, as well as … Articles also mandate that “Aquifer States shall take a precautionary approach in view of uncertainty about the … that the Parties “shall be guided,” inter alia, by the precautionary principle, the principle of preventive action, …
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Spring: Managing groundwater sustainability

… accountability, sub- sidiarity, conjunctive use and the precautionary principle. Water users should take part in developing … to the groundwater eventually exceeding these limits. As a precautionary measure, these areas were desig- nated as …
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The Joensuu negotiation: A mulitlateral simulation exercise: The UN Framework Convention on Transboundary Aquifers

… 61–72; Tuomas Kuokkanen, ‘Background and Evolution of the Principle of Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources’, … even when there is a lack of scientific certainty, the precautionary approach or principle has been used as a … for instance, calls on Par- ties in paragraph 3 to ‘take precautionary measures to anticipate, prevent or mini- mize …
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Integration of groundwater management into transboundary basin organizations in Africa - Training manual

… groundwater may take a very long time to reme- diate, and precautionary protection from pollution is strongly … Hirata, 1988) BOX 3.1: THE DARCY LAW AND PERMEABILITY The principle that governs how fluids move through sediments and … of new data and knowledge related to the TBAs ■■ The precautionary principle, i.e. that development is not done if …
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Flow : The essentials of environmental flows

… for low controversy situations. They also tend to be precautionary. 2.3.2 Desk Top Analysis Methods in this … regime rather than pre-derived statistics. A fundamental principle is to maintain integrity, natural seasonality and … This would be the prudent corollary for exercising the precautionary principle with respect to new projects to …
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