Special Issue: The 1997 UN Watercourses Convention – What Relevance in the 21st Century?

The latest issue of Water International (Vol. 38, no. 2, 2013) focuses on "The 1997 UN Watercourses Convention – What Relevance in the 21st Century?" Contents include:

• Special Issue: The 1997 UN Watercourses Convention – What Relevance in the 21st Century?
• Owen McIntyre, Utilization of shared international freshwater resources – the meaning and role of “equity” in international water law
• Bruce Lankford, Does Article 6 (Factors Relevant to Equitable and Reasonable Utilization) in the UN Watercourses Convention misdirect riparian countries?
• Christina Leb, The UN Watercourses Convention: the éminence grise behind cooperation on transboundary water resources
• Jing Lee, The preservation of freshwater ecosystems of international watercourses and the integration of rules – an interpretative mechanism
• Attila Tanzi & Enrico Milano, Article 33 of the UN Watercourses Convention: a step forward for dispute settlement?
• Claudia Cinelli, A new human rights-based approach to the UN Watercourses Convention
• Musa M. Abseno, The influence of the UN Watercourses Convention on the development of a treaty regime in the Nile River basin
• Hamid Sarfraz, Revisiting the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty
• Huiping Chen, Alistair Rieu-Clarke & Patricia Wouters, Exploring China's transboundary water treaty practice through the prism of the UN Watercourses Convention