Equity Across Generations in Implementing International Law on Water

Otto Spijkers

doi:10.1017/9781108768511.043

Equity Across Generations in Implementing International Law on Water

Otto Spijkers

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Water law regulates the use of freshwater resources, such as rivers, lakes, wetlands, aquifers, and glaciers. A considerable challenge is to ensure that these resources remain in good health, so that future generations can make use of them as well. The most urgent problems facing efforts to ensure the sustainable utilization of these freshwater resources include water pollution, depletion of non-rechargeable underground water and fossil water, and diversion of freshwater resources in a way that negatively affects the ecosystem of which such resources often constitute the beating heart.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Intergenerational Justice in Sustainable Development Treaty Implementation
Subtitle of host publication	Advancing Future Generations Rights through National Institutions
Editors	Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, Marcel Szabó, Alexandra R. Harrington
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Chapter	36
Pages	705-730
Number of pages	26
ISBN (Electronic)	9781108768511
ISBN (Print)	9781108488020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108768511.043
Publication status	Published - Jul 2021

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Spijkers, O. (2021). Equity Across Generations in Implementing International Law on Water. In M.-C. Cordonier Segger, M. Szabó, & A. R. Harrington (Eds.), Intergenerational Justice in Sustainable Development Treaty Implementation: Advancing Future Generations Rights through National Institutions (pp. 705-730). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108768511.043

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Equity Across Generations in Implementing International Law on Water. / Spijkers, Otto.
Intergenerational Justice in Sustainable Development Treaty Implementation: Advancing Future Generations Rights through National Institutions. ed. / Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger; Marcel Szabó; Alexandra R. Harrington. Cambridge University Press, 2021. p. 705-730.

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