Inequities and limitations in access to safe and affordable water and to the decision-making processes that guide water management and distribution affect communities around the world and across the US and, with the added impacts of climate change, present a growing problem of environmental...

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...

Predictions that interstate fresh water disputes will increase in the future have led to a vast body of research on tools and techniques to manage shared freshwater resources so as to prevent such disputes from arising, however relatively little attention has been paid to the need for effective...

This article analyzes the restrictive approach adopted by investor-State arbitration tribunals to human rights arguments raised by host States, as exemplified in the case of the human right to water, and examines the potential implications of this approach for the international human rights...