Shared watercourses and water security in South Asia
Subtitle: challenges of negotiating and enforcing treaties
By: by Salman M.A. Salman and Kishor Uprety
Series: Brill research perspectives. International water law; Brill research perspectives
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9789004385047
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Water security; Water resources development; Water-supply; Political aspects; International cooperation; International rivers
Description: The monograph discusses the various challenges facing shared water resources in South Asia, and the response of most these countries, presented in their calls for water security. Consequently, negotiating new transboundary water treaties amongst South Asia's riparian countries has become a daunting task, and enforcing existing ones remains a real challenge.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 91-100).
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: South Asia's treaty practice on shared watercourses --; title: South Asia and the United Nations watercourses convention -- -- Conclusion:; title: "Cooperation" : South Asia's missing pillar.