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Transboundary Groundwaters: The Bellagio Draft Treaty, Robert D. Hayton, Albert E. Utton Jul 1989

Transboundary Groundwaters: The Bellagio Draft Treaty, Robert D. Hayton, Albert E. Utton

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Increasing populations and industrial and agricultural development worldwide are placing much greater demands on groundwater supplies. Many of these groundwater basins or aquifers underlie two or more countries and are, thus, international or transboundary. Withdrawals from one country can drain life-giving water from a neighboring country and, as a consequence, be the source of severe and protracted conflict. Unfortunately, international law and treaty practice are only at a beginning stage. With the goal of advancing international law and institutions on the matter, a multi-disciplinary group of specialists over an eight-year period have developed a draft international groundwater treaty.

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Groundwater Quality Protection: Setting A National Goal For State And Federal Programs, David H. Getches Jan 1989

Groundwater Quality Protection: Setting A National Goal For State And Federal Programs, David H. Getches

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Foreword, Focus: Clean Water Act’S Section 404, David H. Getches Jan 1989

Foreword, Focus: Clean Water Act’S Section 404, David H. Getches

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Integrated Pollution Control: The Way Forward, Lakshman Guruswamy Jan 1989

Integrated Pollution Control: The Way Forward, Lakshman Guruswamy

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Integrating Thoughtways: Re-Opening Of The Environmental Mind?, Lakshman Guruswamy Jan 1989

Integrating Thoughtways: Re-Opening Of The Environmental Mind?, Lakshman Guruswamy

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The implementation of environmental law and policy has assumed that pollution could be contained, corralled and interdicted within the medium (air, land, or water) in which unpleasant effects are encountered. Sweeping, but piecemeal, federal legislation in the 1970s aspired to create healthy air, together with fishable, swimmable and drinkable waters. Despite impressive gains, these goals have not been achieved. There have been painful failures, compounded by the mounting costs of environmental protection. While the need for environmental protection is generally accepted, the effectiveness and efficiency of regulation based on the legislation of the 1970s has been questioned in the 1980s. …