1st Edition

Strengthening Cooperation over Transboundary Groundwater Resources

Edited By Gabriel Eckstein, Alice Aureli Copyright 2022
162 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge

Groundwater is humanity’s most vital supply of freshwater. Freshwater resources contained in aquifer systems globally are two orders of magnitude greater than those found in all rivers, lakes, and other surface freshwaters combined. Moreover, approximately one half of the world’s population today is dependent on groundwater for its basic needs. While these truisms are widely acknowledged, an... Read more

Introduction: the ebb and flow of law and governance for transboundary aquifers and groundwater resources

Gabriel Eckstein and Alice Aureli

1. Strengthening cooperation on transboundary groundwater resources

Alice Aureli and Gabriel Eckstein

2. Codification of the Law of Transboundary Aquifers (Groundwaters) by the United Nations

Chusei Yamada

3. Managing buried treasure across frontiers: the international Law of Transboundary Aquifers

Gabriel E. Eckstein

4. The customary law applicable to internationally shared groundwater

Joseph W. Dellapenna

5. The International Law Commission’s flawed Draft Articles on the Law of Transboundary Aquifers: the way forward

Stephen C. McCaffrey

6. The World Bank policy and practice for projects affecting shared aquifers

Salman M.A. Salman

7. Governance of transboundary aquifers: new challenges and new opportunities

Jamie Linton and David B. Brooks

8. Interpreting the unknown: uncertainty and the management of transboundary groundwater

Anita Milman and Isha Ray

9. Unitization: a lesson in collective action from the oil industry for aquifer governance

W. Todd Jarvis

10. Transboundary groundwater law in Europe: a look at an evolving multi- level regime

Götz Reichert

11. The Agreement on the Guarani Aquifer: a new paradigm for transboundary groundwater management?

Pilar Carolina Villar and Wagner Costa Ribeiro

12. Keeping it legal: transboundary management challenges facing Brazil and the Guarani

David N. Cassuto and Romulo S.R. Sampaio

13. Sustainable transboundary groundwater management under shifting political scenarios: the Ceylanpinar Aquifer and Turkey– Syria relations

Mehmet Öztan and Mark Axelrod

Biography

Gabriel Eckstein is Professor of Law at Texas A&M University and directs its Energy, Environmental, & Natural Resources Systems Law Program. He serves as President of the International Water Resources Association, and Executive Council Member of the International Association for Water Law.

Alice Aureli is Chief of UNESCO’s Groundwater Systems and Water for Human Settlements Section. She is also a member of the Secretariat of UNESCO’s intergovernmental International Hydrological Programme where, among other tasks, she is responsible for the International Shared Aquifers Resources Management (ISARM) initiative.