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1 - Adjudication and the Scope of Transboundary Water Disputes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2019

Itzchak E. Kornfeld
Affiliation:
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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The reallocation of water use and impending disputes requires a shift in the use of transboundary waters, from a policy of unchecked water use a few decades ago, to today’s era of water scarcity, which has resulted in disputes over rivers worldwide. Some examples include, the decades-long clash Iraq and Syria over Euphrates and Tigris Rivers, in Asia Minor and the conflicts run high between Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan over the Amu Daria and Syr Daria rivers. The problem however is that the quantity of water will shift geographically, due to climate change and become scarcer in some locales where today it is abundant. This scarcity may cause flare-ups that may lead to wars. The amount of freshwater available for human use and consumption is finite. Indeed, of the total one hundred per cent of water on earth, the amount total fresh water, including groundwater, lakes and rivers, available for consumption is only 0.77 per cent. It is described by hydrologists and geologists as the hydrological cycle, a model which portrays is a closed system. That is, nothing leaves or enters the system. It is fixed. Water is controlled by a model
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Transboundary Water Disputes
State Conflict and the Assessment of their Adjudication
, pp. 1 - 11
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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