International law and freshwater : the multiple challenges / edited by Laurence Boisson de Chazournes, Christina Leb, Mara Tignino.

Papers from a conference held in Geneva in July 2011.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Laurence Boisson de Chazournes, Christina Leb, and Mara Tignino -- The law of international watercourses : achievements and challenges / Lucius Caflisch -- Water security, perceptions and politics : the context for international watercourse negotiations / David Grey and Dustin Garrick -- Water and sanitation as human rights : why does it matter? / Catarina de Albuquerque -- Water rights of indigenous peoples and local communities / Dinah Shelton -- Do people have rights in boundaries' delimitations? / Marcelo Kohen and Mara Tignino -- The codification of universal norms : a means to promote cooperation and equity? / Stephen C. McCaffrey -- A scalable approach towards realizing tangible benefits in transboundary river basins and regions / Jakob Granit and Marius Claasen -- Regional contributions to international water cooperation : the UNECE contribution / Attila Tanzi -- Transboundary water resources and international law : the example of the aquifer management of the Geneva region (Switzerland and France) / Gabriel de los Cobos -- The Guarani Aquifer Framework Agreement (2010) / Lilian del Castillo-Laborde -- The Senegal River legal regime and its contribution to the development of the law of international watercourses in Africa / Makane Moise Mbengue -- The contribution of procedural rules to the environmental protection of transboundary rivers in light of recent ICJ case law / Owen McIntyre -- WTO and trade in natural resources / Valerie Hughes and Gabrielle Marceau -- Virtual water,'land grab' and international law / Ellen Hey -- Competing water use in large-scale commercial farms : Ethiopia / Bahakal Abate Yimer -- Do judicial decisions settle water-related disputes? / Awn S. Al-Khasawneh -- Mediation of international water disputes : the Indus, the Jordan, and the Nile Basins interventions / Salman M.A. Salman -- India and Pakistan's truculent cooperation : can it continue? / Undala Alam -- State succession to water treaties : uncertain streams / Christina Leb and Mara Tignino.