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Watercourses Convention; international water law; transboundary agreements; aquifers; customary principles; equitable use; no significant harm; United Nations; Nile River Basin Cooperative Framework Agreement; UNECE
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The United Nations Watercourses Convention On The Dawn Of Entry Into Force, Ryan Stoa
The United Nations Watercourses Convention On The Dawn Of Entry Into Force, Ryan Stoa
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The United Nations Watercourses Convention entered into force in August 2014. Despite overwhelming support when signed in 1997, the ratification process has been slow. As a binding treaty, the Watercourses Convention provides hope that its provisions will articulate legal principles of transboundary water management capable of promoting cooperation and regional agreements. Despite entry into force, however, global support for the Watercourses Convention is weak, concurrent efforts to develop treaty regimes governing water resources create competition for resources and may obscure understandings of international water law, and the foundational principles of the Watercourses Convention remain ambiguous. These limitations are illustrated in …