All societies must manage their water resources. How a society manages and controls its water resources - whether for food and farming, drinking, sanitation, power or transport - plays a formative role in its development. And today, with the global population exceeding seven billion people and the c[...]

Drawing on a wealth of examples, and revealing how current problems are not necessarily new as often suggested, the international contributors provide a deeper theroetical analysis of the issues, enabling a clearer understanding to be obtained of how experience in one region can properly be related [...]

I denne boken følger vi Nilen, verdens lengste elv, fra utløpet ved Middelhavet til kildene i hjertet av Afrika. Dette er den fascinerende historien om elvens store økonomiske, politiske og mytiske betydning. Breddfull av fortellinger om sentrale personer i kampen om elven - fra Cæsar og Kleopat[...]

As global climate change threatens to change radically both the political and physical climate with regard to water issues, so a reassessment of some of the fundamental principles of international water law is emerging. One of the most important principles being reassessed is the sovereign equality [...]