Search results
30 Results
Sorted by relevance
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 …
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 …
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 …
A1- Integrating Environmental Concerns in International Water Law
… two or more States. These issues include protection of the watercourse, allocation of its waters, and assurance of … parties to allocation of water quantities and to protect watercourse ecosystems. This class focuses on the ways in … water law that is binding upon all States sharing a watercourse with one or more other States. The class also …
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 …
Water Law and the Environment
… water law incorporates environmental concerns - Watercourse Convention 3.1. Equitable and reasonable … 2 (a) of the UN Watercourses Convention defines the term “watercourse” as “a system of surface waters and groundwaters … terminus.” It then Article 2 (b) defines “international watercourse” as “a watercourse, parts of which are situated …
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 …
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 …