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Issues in water law reform

… apply to disputes between land owners over surface drainage. Predictably, legislative rules have only been … at such places.7 In Australian circumstances, discernible drainage courses, which do not comply with the common law … allowed the Governor in Council to declare intermittent drainage courses on private land to be "waterways". This …
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Wetlands, water and the law. Using law to advance wetland conservation and wise use

… have therefore been lost in one century, primarily through drainage for agriculture and urban development and water … for conversion to alternative land use. By 1985, the drainage of available wetlands for intensive agriculture was … different activities can generate the same process. Drainage and excessive groundwater abstraction can both …
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Law for water management: a guide to concepts and effective approaches

… outflow of permanent or perched groundwater and from the drainage of lakes and swamps during dry weather; also … (watershed): a discrete area of land with a common drainage system; includes both the water bodies that convey … the principle that each state within an international drainage basin has the right to a reasonable and equitable …
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Sources of international water law

… 5.2.5.9 Rules on Water Pollution in an International Drainage Basin - Montreal, … Resulting from the Use of the Waters of an International Drainage Basin - Helsinki, 1996 .................322 5.2.5.14 …
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The greening of water law: Managing freshwater resources for people and the environment

… Lipper, Equitable Utilization, in The Law of International Drainage Basins (Garretson, et. al. eds., 1967), at pp. … Lipper, Equitable Utilization, in The Law of International Drainage Basins (Garretson, et. al. eds., 1967), at p. 43; … Edwards Limestones Relatively Impermable Land Surface Drainage Area Recharge Zone Artesian Zone Typical …
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