Governing water augmentation under the Watercourse Convention

Rhett B. Larson

Water International, 2016, vol. 41, issue 6, 866-882

Abstract: This article evaluates how the UN Convention on the Law of the Non-navigational Uses of International Watercourses can be interpreted and implemented to facilitate responsible and equitable implementation of water augmentation technology. Innovation in technology that has the potential to augment water supplies, like desalination or cloud seeding, may aggravate or mitigate conflict over shared international rivers or lakes. On the one hand, international water disputes may arise due to water scarcity, and augmentation mitigates scarcity. On the other hand, wealthy nations may secure increased water supplies through technological innovations while externalizing the costs of those innovations to poorer nations.

Date: 2016
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/02508060.2016.1214893 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:rwinxx:v:41:y:2016:i:6:p:866-882

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.tandfonline.com/pricing/journal/rwin20

DOI: 10.1080/02508060.2016.1214893

Access Statistics for this article

Water International is currently edited by James Nickum, Philippus Wester, Remy Kinna, Xueliang Cai, Yoram Eckstein, Naho Mirumachi and Cecilia Tortajada

More articles in Water International from Taylor & Francis Journals
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chris Longhurst ().