The discharge of nuclear-contaminated water containing radionuclides into the ocean by Japan will lead to its integration into the entire ecosystem through processes of circulation and biomagnification, eventually entering the human body via the food chain. This poses a substantial risk of...

Water is critical not only to economic progress and sustainable development but most importantly, to human survival. Yet, the way water is valued suggests an inexhaustible supply, when the opposite is true. This paper examines if water rights in the Philippines are underpriced and looks at how...

Indian water rights settlements have been the primary mechanism to resolve water conflicts between tribal governments and state, municipal, and non-governmental parties. Although decades of scholarship has roundly criticized settlements for their many shortcomings, this paper suggests that a...

Incomplete property rights are common across a range of natural resources such as fisheries and groundwater. The High Plains Aquifer region of Kansas provides one example of a complex but incomplete system of property rights. Rights to groundwater in Kansas are incomplete due to the physical...

Debates over the management and allocation of water in the postcolonial era, and in post-apartheid South Africa in particular, reveal that struggles over water resources in Southern Africa occur within three broad frames: the institutional, the hydrological, and the ideological. Each of these...

Origins of the dispute: 1947- -- Tripartite agreement and the political turmoil -- The abrogation of accords, and 'politics of region' -- Supreme court verdict on the termination act, and its aftermath -- Conclusions: Reflecting on legacies, political competition, and peasant interests.

Situating the Debate -- Current State of Customary International Groundwater Law -- Dissecting the Main Legal Dilemmas -- The Legal Classification of Transboundary Aquifers -- The Interplay Between International Water Law and Human Rights Agreements (HRWS) -- Harmonizing International Water Law...

The Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that “private property [shall not] be taken for public use, without just compensation.”1 While courts and academics have put considerable amounts of effort into discussing the meaning of “taken” or...

Water rights trading is a market-oriented method of allocating water resources and an effective means of improving water resource efficiency. China have implement this pilot policy for 8 years,it is believed that the pilot policy is effective in improving water utilization efficiency, which we...

Public health measures to combat COVID-19, especially in the first year before vaccines became widely available, required individuals to be able to access fresh water while remaining isolated from most of their fellow human beings. For the approximately 500,000 households in the United States...

In the United States and many other countries, a legal divide occurs at the coast. Management authorities, for example, often change somewhere in the vicinity of the high tide line. However, in most cases, freshwater flows into saltwater. This connection has always been vital to trade and...

Chapter One: policy fragmentation -- Eras of survival and accommodation -- Chapter Two: dreams of reclamation -- Chapter Three: pressures to adapt -- Chapter Four: politics and the Colorado river -- Chapter Five: great projects and great controversies -- Part Two: era of competition -- Chapter...

Between 1905 and 1934 over 869 farmers in Owens Valley, California sold their land and associated water rights to Los Angeles, 250 miles to the southwest. This agriculture-to-urban water transfer increased Los Angeles' water supply by over 4 times, making the subsequent dramatic growth of the...

A human right to water has been a major issue in recent times, both nationally and internationally. The international community has taken different approaches to tackle the global water crisis by realising a human right to water. Unfortunately, international uncertainty remains. Bangladesh...

Disagreements over the management and allocation of transboundary freshwater resources have become increasingly prominent in international relations. Serious diplomatic tensions surround management of the Jordan, Mekong, Nile, Rio Grande, Silala, Syr Darya and Amu Darya, and Tigris and Euphrates...

Water transfers, the human-induced movement of water from one place to another, have historically sustained development of vast areas of otherwise uninhabitable land in the western United States, and have recently become a popular method for alleviating water allocation problems and scarcity in...

Water rights and their associated infrastructure support human needs and wants, from agriculture to drinking water to industrial uses, but also impose significant external costs, including impacts on infrastructure, ecosystems, food production, and other human uses. In some cases, these costs...

Paper prepared for the workshop entitled ‘Water, Law and the Commons’ organised in Delhi from 8 to 10 December 2006 by the International Environmental Law Research Centre (IELRC) in the context of the research partnership 2006-2009 on water law sponsored by the Swiss National Science...

This article seeks to assess the role of the human right to water in realising water rights in the scenario of the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT). In particular, it seeks to answer the question of the extent to which the human right to water protects Palestinians’ water rights in the...

International Water Law has developed a set of rules for resolving interstate fresh water disputes that govern both the substance of these disputes and the conduct of the disputing states. “Equitable and reasonable utilization” is commonly considered as the leading substantive rule, “no...

In the 2018 Supreme Court case, Texas v. New Mexico, Texas claimed that New Mexico breached its obligations under the Rio Grande Compact of 1938 by allowing groundwater pumping in New Mexico south of Elephant Butte Reservoir. The Rio Grande Compact is one of many interstate water compacts in the...

Situated in the geographical center of the country, Kansas is a state in the tier of states from the Dakotas to Texas that mark the transition from the humid East to the arid West. Elevation rises from under seven hundred feet above sea level in eastern Kansas to over four thousand feet in the...

Purpose This study aims to test the role of the state of occupation, represented in Israel, as one of the most significant challenges, which faces the Jordanian water security. Where Israel expands in its policy and ideology everyday its hydro-hegemony over the Jordanian waters. Hence, its acts...

Climate change exacerbates the challenges that water management nowadays has to deal with. This highlights the need for a legal framework that promotes adaptation by addressing the ecological value of water and the risks of flooding and drought. This paper analyzes to what extent the European...

Diese Veröffentlichung stellt eine von sechs Analysen sektorenübergreifender Herausforderungen für Wasser-Governance dar, die als Teil des STEER-Forschungsprojekts durchgeführt wurden und deren Resultate in separaten Analysen und Stellungnahmen vorliegen. Das Ziel der Wasserrahmenrichtlinie...

This project aims to evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of the government's irrigation program. It focuses on technical, physical, and institutional aspects of performance of both national (NIS) and communal irrigation systems (CIS), and selected case studies. The governance component...

This Briefing Paper presents one of six analyses of cross-sectoral coordination challenges that were conducted as part of the STEER research project and on which separate Briefing Papers are available. The European Union (EU) Water Framework Directive (WFD) requires member states to achieve a...

El presente documento examina los desafíos hídricos que la región de América Latina y el Caribe enfrenta para el cumplimiento del Objetivo de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) 6 de garantizar la disponibilidad de agua y su gestión sostenible y saneamiento para todos. Utiliza como contexto de...

It is the poor who are most likely to depend upon unimproved water and sanitation services and thus are most likely to suffer from water insecurity at the household level. This paper explores how the human rights to water and sanitation are addressed in the national water laws of two countries...

The countries around the world which follow constitutional democracy are fully committed to the Rule of law principle, and to the concept of economic, political, social and also environmental justice. This commitment which is enshrined in the Constitution of India preamble raises the question as...