Water Law

Edited by Joseph W. Dellapenna, Visiting Professor of Law, Peking University Transnational School of Law, China, Director of the Model Water Code Project of the American Society of Civil Engineers, US and Rapporteur of the Berlin Rules on Water Resources and Joyeeta Gupta, Professor of Environment and Development in the Global South, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam and Professor of Law and Policy in Water Resources and Environment, IHE-Delft Institute for Water Education, the Netherlands

Contents:

Foreword to the Encyclopedia xiv
Jamie Benidickson and Yves Le Bouthillier
Foreword to Volume X xv
Michael Faure

Introduction to Volume X 1
Joseph W Dellapenna and Joyeeta Gupta

PART 1 PERVASIVE ISSUES
X.1 The expanding boundaries of water law 9
Joyeeta Gupta and Joseph W Dellapenna
X.2 A note on law in general and international law in particular 20
Joseph W Dellapenna
X.3 Water governance and politics 33
Erick Velázquez Hernández, Dave Huitema and Jampel Dell’Angelo
X.4 Water and security 44
Rhett B Larson
X.5 The UN contribution to water law, environment, climate disruption, and
the Sustainable Development Goals 55
Joyeeta Gupta and Hilmer J Bosch
X.6 The water-energy nexus 72
Lee Godden
X.7 Fundamental concepts of property in water and the role of markets in
water governance 86
Joseph W Dellapenna
X.8 Aquatic boundaries 104
Joseph W Dellapenna

PART 2 INTERNATIONAL WATER LAW
X.9 The continuing evolution of international water law 123
Owen McIntyre
X.10 Groundwater in international law 142
Kirstin Conti and Joyeeta Gupta
X.11 International litigation and arbitration over water disputes 156
Farnaz Shirani Bidabadi
X.12 The human rights to water and sanitation 166
Daphina Misiedjan and Pedi Obani
X.13 River basin organizations 177
David J Devlaeminck
X.14 How international water law connects to environmental law and human
rights 190
Ellen Hey and Alberto Quintavalla
X.15 Advancing water law through rights of nature 203
Julia Talbot-Jones
X.16 Sustainability and international water law 214
Otto Spijkers
X.17 Providing for future generations 225
Lydia Slobodian

PART 3 REGIONAL WATER LAW
X.18 Europe 239
Marleen van Rijswick
X.19 The Mekong River Basin 255
Susanne Schmeier
X.20 Southern Africa 270
Michael Kidd
X.21 Central Asia 283
Barbara Janusz-Pawletta

PART 4 NATIONAL WATER LAW
X.22 Water jurisdiction: on federalism, river basins, metropolises, and
communities 301
Francine van den Brandeler and Filippo Maria Lancieri
X.23 Changing ‘ownership’ in water law: comparative experiences in the
developing world 315
Joyeeta Gupta and Hilmer J Bosch
X.24 Groundwater law at the domestic level 329
Gabriela Cuadrado-Quesada and Joyeeta Gupta
X.25 The Arab countries of the Middle East 341
Léna Salamé and Raya Marina Stephan
X.26 Reforming legal frameworks for water management in Central Asia 354
Jenniver Sehring, Aminjon Abdulloev, Nataliya Chemayeva, Botir
Ismailov, Nargiza Osmonova and Botagoz Sharipova
X.27 China: water law in transition 367
Libin Zhang
X.28 Brazil: evolution of water and sanitation law and challenges for inclusive
services 377
Raquel dos Santos and Klaas Schwartz

PART 5 WATER LAW AND BROADER ISSUES
X.29 Water law and development 391
Philippe Cullet
X.30 Legal frameworks and water services 402
Klaas Schwartz and Mireia Tutusaus
X.31 Indigenous rights to water 413
Barbara Cosens
X.32 Large-scale water infrastructure, territorial transformation and water
rights dispossession 425
Rutgerd Boelens
X.33 Water law and disaster: floods and droughts 438
Margot A Hurlbert
X.34 Water and mining 451
Mirja Schoderer, Jampel Dell’Angelo and Dave Huitema
X.35 Coastal zones 466
Ryan B Stoa

PART 6 CONCLUSIONS
X.36 Water law: its role, shortcomings, and potential 485
Joseph W Dellapenna and Joyeeta Gupta

Index 499