"International organizations such as the World Bank began to intervene in the transboundary water governance of the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna river basin in the mid-2000s, and the South Asia Water Initiative (SAWI) is its most ambitious project in this regard. This book identifies factors that...

Water lawyers, courts, and others in the water community are fond of quoting the quip attributed to Mark Twain, "whiskey is for drinking and water is for fighting over." Not only is there no evidence that Twain ever uttered these words, but the quote has taken on a life of its own which grossly...

Intro -- Cooperating Rivals -- Contents -- List of Maps, Tables, and Figures -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. State-Building and Water Development, 1920-1956 -- 3. Water Development and Conflict,1957-1967 -- 4. The Yarmouk, 1967-1994 -- 5. The West Bank and Gaza, 1948-1992 -- 6. The 1990s...

Water is critical not only to economic progress and sustainable development but most importantly, to human survival. Yet, the way water is valued suggests an inexhaustible supply, when the opposite is true. This paper examines if water rights in the Philippines are underpriced and looks at how...

Introduction -- Explaining conflict, cooperation, and negotiation along international rivers -- Treaty design and property rights : theory and hypotheses -- Empirical analysis of treaty design differences : core configurations -- Empirical analysis of treaty design differences : additional...