Legal Status of Use International Rivers

Abstract

Owing to the multiplicity of freshwater uses, the global population increase and scientific and technical development, water has become a limited and difficult resource to obtain. Therefore, the international community, through general international law, has taken an interest in international watercourses to address the legal challenges and difficulties related to their equitable and reasonable use, without prejudice to coastal States. The 1997 United Nations Convention on the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses was drafted with the aim of consolidating the principles of the use of international watercourses.