The World Bank Water Practice is requesting firms/consortia to submit an Expression of Interest (EOI) to carry out a review of the Institutional Frameworks and Regulation of Desalination and Wastewater Reuse in the MENA Region and Beyond. The deadline for submitting EOIs is September 27,

This webinar is a simulation game of negotiations between two ‘countries’ over their transboundary river-aquifer system. The simulations are carried out by highly qualified lawyers and hydrogeologists, drawing on their expertise on transboundary water resources and international water law. The webinar will be held on

This special issue of the Chinese Journal of Environmental Law aims to deal with water law as part of the broad area of environmental law. It seeks to bring together a collection of articles that look at different aspects of this 'green' and 'blue' approach

The Global Water Partnership (GWP) and the International Water Law Academy (IWLA) of Wuhan University are co-organizing an interactive online series called the 'Transboundary Freshwater Security Governance Train.' This series is a part of the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Governance for Transboundary Freshwater

Commissioned by the American Society for International Law, this compilation of essays focuses on the role and relevance of international water law for peacefully resolving disputes over transboundary freshwater resources. Taken together, the essays provide an impressive breadth of approaches, from close examination of contemporary

There are many people and places connected to rivers: fishermen whose livelihood depends on river ecosystems, farms that need irrigation, indigenous groups whose cultures rely on fish and flowing waters, cities whose electricity comes from hydroelectric dams, and citizens who seek wild nature. For all

This special issue aims to contribute to a better understanding of the important role that data and system analyses play in transboundary water governance, and to provide insights in the interplay between information and technologies, knowledge and power. Two types of contributions are sought, namely,

This book offers a comprehensive study of the emerging body of international law applicable to transboundary aquifers. Adopting a scenario-based approach, it analyzes a diverse set of transboundary aquifer agreements and arrangements. With just a handful of such agreements and arrangements around the world, it

The right to water emerged in the nineties primarily as the right to domestic water for drinking, washing and cooking, and was closely related to the right to sanitation, both of which are seen as a component of the right to an adequate standard of

Climate change has become an undeniable major pressure on the world’s freshwater resources. Yet, the effects of climate change on groundwater, the most significant freshwater resource on Earth, are still poorly understood. Somewhat neglected by policymakers and ignored by the public, groundwater management, governance and monitoring