This article examines two of the major water legal regimes in the Americas - that of Brazil and the United States. Both … instance, is home to between eight and fifteen percent of the world’s fresh water, and its fast-growing economy and population … present major challenges in management and allocation. The U.S. also faces major water allocation problems resulting from past …

scale engendering localised stresses in the forms of coastal erosion, ice melt, infertile land and deteriorating water …

environmental question which dominates our time and pose the major challenge to environmental organizations of control. Water is one …: demographic explosion, probable reduction in the water run-offs, scarcity of the resources, the degradation of the hydraulic …