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6. Water Law and Rights

Authors : Joyeeta Gupta, Joseph Dellapenna

Published in: Handbook of Water Resources Management: Discourses, Concepts and Examples

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This chapter covers issues of water law and rights in terms of generic issues. Following an introduction to law, it discusses the origins of water law, how water law is organized, various issues related to the quantity of water (including property rights and priority of use), issues related to the quality of water and environmental concerns and integrated water resource management. It then discusses key issues in transboundary water law, before drawing conclusions about the future challenges to water law.

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Title: Water Law and Rights
Authors: Joyeeta Gupta
Joseph Dellapenna
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Handbook of Water Resources Management: Discourses, Concepts and Examples
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-60145-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-60147-8

Copyright Year: 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60147-8_6

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