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Issues in water law reform

… in groundwater 13 2.5 Categories of administrative 15 3. COMPENSATION ISSUES 18 3.1 Some General Principles 18 3.2 … entitlements 20 3.4 Defining the circumstances in which compensation will be paid 21 -5- 1. SYNOPSIS The purpose of … rights to water. • Techniques of managing exposure to compensation. Most examples have been drawn from the two most …
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A2 - Integrating Environmental Concerns in National Water Law

… re-allocation of the resource. A key legal issue is the compensation of existing, legitimate water abstraction (and … abstractions can be scaled down by the government, without compensation, to protect a water-dependent ecosystem; under … others, protect and restore water-dependent ecosystems. Compensation is not mentioned; under the Water Act of Namibia …
18 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

Pay : Establishing payments for watershed services

… watershed. The City has provided US$ 40 million in compensation to cover the additional costs of dairy farmers … that must guide establishment of appropriate levels of compensation. 2.3 Moving from valuation to setting up a … benefit for a reward, the stakeholders upstream receive no compensation for the services they deliver. The benefits of …
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Regulation of Freshwater at the Regional and Subregional Levels - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… Water and Health and the Protocol on Civil Liability and Compensation for Damage caused by the Transboundary Effects … on Civil Liability The Protocol on Civil Liability and Compensation for Damage caused by the Transboundary Effects … to bring a legal claim for adequate and prompt compensation. Companies can be held liable for accidents at …
18 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Marine and Freshwater

Guidebook for policy and legislative development on conservation and sustainable use of freshwater resources

… after due notice and hearing, subject to payment of compensation is proper cases. GUIDEBOOK FOR POLICY AND … Nothing in this section gives rise to a claim for compensation under section 87. Norway: For the purpose of … and enquiries into such matter and matters relating to compensation thereto. 9 Matters relating to users association …
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Share - Managing water across boundaries

… and benefits will require some sort of redistribution or compensation, as discussed below, which will be highly … allocation and mechanisms for redistribution and/or compensation. Thus, it is useful to examine actual practices … water resources (in descending order of frequency): • Compensation for lost benefits; • Half of the flow …
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B2 - Equitable and Reasonable Use of Water Resources in Practice

… the use of waters of the basin; 10. The practicability of compensation to one or more of the co-basin States as a means … (apology, exemplary damages), restitution, and compensation. 6. Downstream Benefit Sharing The 1966 Helsinki Rules expressly include “the practicality of compensation to one or more of the co-basin States as a means …
18 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

Flow : The essentials of environmental flows

… the inevitable questions of whether, how and by whom compensation might be payable when water rights are varied, … users is also described. Module 4. Economics. The compensation costs of each scenario for common-property users … costs of engineering environmental flows; • payments or compensation to out-of-stream end users that must cut back …
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Nexus Governance: Harnessing contending forces at work

… who were to be displaced by the dam received the official compensation and told to move away. There is a poor record of … interviews with people in the catchment area, it appears compensation money did not find productive investment … was worked out. The fisher folks would be paid a one-time compensation of almost a million rupees and they would be …
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Negotiate: reaching agreement over water

… engagement, and build trust required to negotiate fairer compensation to affected communities. Case 2.2: From conflict … consent for continued operation along with acceptable compensation arrangements. The CMCAs were not supported by … on the sustainable development projects component of the compensation. There was clear interdependency among the key …
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