Groundwater in international law : compilation of treaties and other legal instruments / Stefano Burchi, Kerstin Mechlem for the Development Law Service, FAO Legal Office.

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Burchi, Stefano

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Material type: Text

TextSeries: FAO legislative study ; 86Publication details: Rome : United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2005.Description: xii, 566 p. ; 24 cmISBN:

925105231X (pbk.)

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LOC classification:

K3496 .B86 2004

Summary: Groundwater is of high social, economic, environmental and strategic importance. It represents about ninety-seven percent of the fresh water resources available on earth, excluding the water locked in the polar ice. Aquifers, among them numerous transboundary ones, are coming under growing pressure from over-abstraction and pollution, which seriously threaten their sustainability. Up to now international law has paid much less attention to ground- than to surface water. Slowly however, a body of rules dealing with this vital resource is emerging that indicates a trend towards more comprehensive international regulation. This publication brings together binding and non-binding international law instruments that, in varying degrees and from different angles, deal with groundwater. Its aim is to report developments in international law and to contribute to detecting law in-the-making in this important field.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Kenya National Commission for UNESCO General Stacks	Non-fiction	6.05BUR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	c1	Available		RC05057

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Groundwater is of high social, economic, environmental and strategic importance. It represents about ninety-seven percent of the fresh water resources available on earth, excluding the water locked in the polar ice. Aquifers, among them numerous transboundary ones, are coming under growing pressure from over-abstraction and pollution, which seriously threaten their sustainability. Up to now international law has paid much less attention to ground- than to surface water. Slowly however, a body of rules dealing with this vital resource is emerging that indicates a trend towards more comprehensive international regulation. This publication brings together binding and non-binding international law instruments that, in varying degrees and from different angles, deal with groundwater. Its aim is to report developments in international law and to contribute to detecting law in-the-making in this important field.

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