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… Legal Materials (1997) 700. 21 Protocol on Shared Watercourse Systems in the SADC Region, Windhoek, 7 August … reduce the potential damage to all countries sharing the watercourse. At the other extreme, drought situations may put … and standards for cooperation between states that share a watercourse. These rules regulate the use, management and …

… Legal Materials (1997) 700. 21 Protocol on Shared Watercourse Systems in the SADC Region, Windhoek, 7 August … reduce the potential damage to all countries sharing the watercourse. At the other extreme, drought situations may put … and standards for cooperation between states that share a watercourse. These rules regulate the use, management and …

… 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 …

… UNWC adopted the purportedly more restrictive concept of a watercourse, the introduction of the principle of ecosystem … one State,[10] as long as they belong to an international watercourse. [1] A similar provision is found in the 2008 … UNWC.[1] Equitable and reasonable use of an international watercourse must aim at “attaining optimal and sustainable …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… African Development Community Experience in Shared Watercourse Governance … 58 4.3 The need for shared watercourse governance in SADC … 66 4.6.5 Shared watercourse agreements … Many of the case studies in this volume analyze particular watercourse agreements in the context of the 1997 convention. …

… States of planned projects potentially impacting a shared watercourse and, where necessary, duties to consult and … potential to impact the environment of an international watercourse, and influence another State’s right to use the … required for any change in the regime of the international watercourse.[1] [1] McIntyre 2007, p. 17-18 8. Two extreme …

… defined as the area from which rainfall will drain into a watercourse through surface flow to a common point. Other … 26 of formalised cooperation among countries sharing a watercourse takes the form of basin-level or regional … mechanisms for increasing the resilience of the watercourse ecosystem itself to both climate- and non-climate …

… and international cooperation mechanisms 4.4.1 Watercourse agreements and other treaties 4.4.2 International … cooperation include: • bilateral or multilateral watercourse agreements; • regional seas conventions, … include hydrological changes from water abstraction or watercourse regulation and water-borne pollution from …