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Promoting Water for All


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Current Issues of International and National Water Law


UNESCO IHP–HELP Centre for Water Law,
Policy and Science, University of Dundee
Guest Editors:
Professor Patricia Wouters and Dr Sarah Hendry
Publishing June 2010

CONTENTS • International water law in Central Asia:


Preface commitments, compliance and beyond
DINARA ZIGANSHINA
Promoting water (law) for all
Addressing the world’s water problems – a focus
on international and national water law and the National Water Law
challenges of an integrated approach • Protection of foreign investment and the
PATRICIA WOUTERS, SARAH HENDRY implications for regulation of water services and
resources: challenges for investment arbitration
International Water Law ANA MARIA DAZA VARGAS
•R  eframing the water security dialogue
• Responding to the ‘water crisis’: the
DAN TARLOCK, PATRICIA WOUTERS
complementary roles of water governance and
• I ntroducing an analytical framework for water the human right to water
security: a platform for the refinement of HILARY J GRIMES
international water law
BJØRN-OLIVER MAGSIG • The transparency agenda in water utilities
regulation and the role of freedom of
•T  he principle of good faith in the Argentina- information: England and Jakarta case studies
Uruguay pulp mills dispute MOHAMAD MOVA AL ‘AFGHANI
TERESA LIGUORI
• Valuing water in law: how can Indigenous
•E  xamining the thresholds of harm for
cultural values be reconciled with Australia’s
international watercourses in the Canada-US
water law in order to strengthen Indigenous
context: would a mining development in the
Flathead River watershed violate the Boundary water rights?
Waters Treaty? TRAN TRAN
MICHAEL AZULAY • An analytical framework for legal regimes
•T  he concepts of equitable utilization, no applicable to freshwater ecosystems
significant harm and benefit sharing under HUGO TREMBLAY
the Nile River Basin Cooperative Framework • Bridging the water law, policy, science interface:
Agreement: some highlights on theory and flood risk management in Scotland
practice CHRIS SPRAY, TOM BALL, JOSSELIN ROUILLARD
MUSA MOHAMMED ABSENO

The UNESCO IHP programme Hydrology for the Environment, Life and Policy (HELP) is a cross-cutting
and transdisciplinary initiative which is creating a new approach to integrated catchment management
through the creation of a framework for water law and policy experts, water
resource managers and water scientists to work together on water-related
problems.
The University of Dundee UNESCO IHP– HELP Centre for Water Law, Policy
and Science promotes ‘water for all’ through its research and graduate
teaching / training under the Water Law, Water Leaders programme.
For more information contact Professor Patricia Wouters on p.k.wouters@dundee.ac.uk
An essential legal resource on
the protection, management of
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An information service and commentary on the legal developments


surrounding water provison and user rights and liabilities

The Journal of Water Law


ISSN 1478 5277
First published in 1993 - published bi-monthly
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There is wide ranging coverage of long-term issues such as:


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• Marine conservation and management


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• The reform of national water law within a global policy agenda


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• Sustainable water use


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• Off-shore policy development and marine spatial planning


• Flood controls
• Integrated water resource management (IWRM)
Among important subjects that are regularly examined in Water Law:
Pollution control - river basin planning - sewerage - pesticide use - conservation,
SSSIs and SPAs and species protection - transboundary water resources

See www.lawtext.com for current contents and sample issues


Contents Essential reading for:
• Articles and case commentaries Regulatory, corporate and utlities lawyers, legal
• Strategic issues – UK, Scottish and EU and insurance advisors, enforcement agencies,
• Current Survey consultants and researchers working in the
• Legal update – water law at a glance water-related and environmental fields.

The Journal of Water Law Volume 21 (2010) £512


plus £26 airmail postage outside Europe. Back volumes available
Editor: Professor William Howarth, University of Kent

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