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UN Watercourses Convention User’s Guide

… obligations, the nature of the obligation to protect watercourse ecosystems, etc. – and can honestly say that I’ve … - Design, Print and Marketing The User’s Guide to the UN Watercourse Convention is a reference guide for lawyers and … 69 1.2 Application 69 1.2.1 Legal and physical scope – watercourse system components and use 71 1.3 Additional …
19 Jun 2026 Document in Marine and Freshwater

UN Watercourses Convention Online User´s Guide

19 Jun 2026 Video in Marine and Freshwater

United Nations Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… include: Obligation to utilize an international watercourse in an equitable and reasonable manner; Duty to … planned measures that might affect other states sharing a watercourse. The fundamental nature of the principle of … reasonable sharing of the resources of an international watercourse”. Two other obligations may be added to the three …
19 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Marine and Freshwater

Document - Freshwater Law and Governance: Global and Regional Perspectives for Sustainability

… 30 2.5 Nested and parallel watercourse … 31 2.6 Actors Created by Non-Watercourse Environmental Agreements … CHAPTER 3: INTERNATIONAL WATER LAW AND THE UNITED NATIONS WATERCOURSE CONVENTION … 99 5.7.2. Protecting the watercourse and ecosystem … in a manner that maintains the integrity of the watercourse and its ecosystem in order to achieve sustainable …
19 Jun 2026 Document in Marine and Freshwater

B2 - Equitable and Reasonable Use of Water Resources in Practice

… equitable and reasonable use of an international watercourse? What are some practical (real-world) … of equitable and reasonable use of an international watercourse? 2. Introduction Every watercourse State has the right to use the waters within its …
19 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

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, …
19 Jun 2026 Literature See it in ECOLEX · This content is provided by ECOLEX

Regulation of Freshwater at the Regional and Subregional Levels - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… The Protocol on Civil Liability 2. Protocol on Shared Watercourse Systems in the Southern African Development … Objective Principle of unity and coherence of each shared watercourse Institutions 3. Agreements concerning specific … 2. Protocol on Shared Watercourse Systems in the Southern African Development …
19 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Marine and Freshwater

C1 - No Significant Harm, Pollution Prevention and Quality Standards

… sharing transboundary water resources, also known as watercourse states, have an obligation to prevent, reduce and … territorial sovereignty. According to this theory, each watercourse state is entitled to use the waters of the watercourse within its territory on condition that it takes …
19 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

No Significant Harm and Transboundary Environmental Impact Assessment

… is to prevent adverse transboundary effects on other watercourse states. Thus, these duties appear as mechanisms … wishing to do that which will affect an international watercourse cannot decide whether another state’s interest … (p.15). The obligation of notification provides that a watercourse state which plans to carry or permit activities …
19 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

Transboundary water governance and climate change adaptation: international law, policy guidelines and best practice application

… objective through the promotion and facilitation of shared watercourse agreements and the establishment of institutions … 3(8)(a)(i)–(vii), include the natural character of the watercourse; the socio-economic, environmental, and population needs of the watercourse states; existing and potential uses of the …
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