The Sustainable Development Goals as Catalyst for the Sustainable Management of Water Resources

This article analyses how the sustainable development goals (SDGs) process might give a boost to the evolution of international water law towards a more sustainable developmentfriendly legal framework. Three recommendations, derived from the SDG process, are made to call upon states: (1) unambiguously to approach international water law as a legal framework to promote the sustainable development of water resources, and to interpret the bedrock principles of international water law in that context; (2) to encourage the further development of the ecosystems approach to international water law; and (3) to use the legal framework of international water law to facilitate public participation at all levels of
water governance.