Preparations are underway for the upcoming High-Level International Conference on Water Cooperation hosted by the government of Tajikistan, which will take place on 20-21 August 2013 in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. The conference was envisaged in the UNGA resolution 65/154 on the "Implementation of the International Year of Water Cooperation, 2013" and

Les sources du droit à l'eau en droit international (The sources of the right to water in international law), by Marie-Catherine Petersmann, Editions Johanet, Paris, 2013. This book deals with the various issues underlying the recognition of the human right to drinking water, and seeks to

The 8th Water History Conference of the International Water History Association in Montpellier, France, will be a unique opportunity to exchange and develop new insights on the history of our most precious resource. The conference is organized with the Council of

Transferable Groundwater Rights: Integrating Hydrogeology, Law and Economics, by Andreas N. Charalambous, published by Routledge, UK, in March 2013, discusses transferable groundwater rights in their broader context. It starts with a detailed description of the physical aspects of groundwater, which non-technical readers should

Following on from the positive experience with the 2012 edition of the World Water Week (Stockholm, 26-31 August 2012), AIDA has secured a slot also at this year’s edition of the World Water Week. In keeping with the over-arching theme Water cooperation: building partnerships of

I am proud to announce that AIDA has entered into a partnership agreement with the Geneva-based NGO WaterLex. The WaterLex Legal Database on the Human Right to Water and Sanitation is a project aiming at bridging the information gap by providing all water governance actors