Comparing China and India’s transboundary water governance: insights from international law

Patricia K. Wouters and David J. Devlaeminck

International Journal of Water Resources Development, 2025, vol. 41, issue 4, 697-716

Abstract: Home to the majority of Asia’s shared transboundary freshwater resources, China and India have adopted different approaches to transboundary water governance, influenced in part by their approach to international law. International law provides a framework for transboundary water cooperation through a body of conventional (treaty) and customary rules as well as non-binding instruments. This study examines China’s and India’s State practice through a legal analytical framework that serves to identify, compare, and contrast their approaches, with a view to offering some insight into how transboundary water cooperation by these two riparian nations might be reframed and possibly advanced.

Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1080/07900627.2024.2341274

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