Middle Eastern and North African Hydropolitics: From Eddies of Indecision to Emerging International Law

From: Georgetown International Environmental Law Review | Date: April 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

I. INTRODUCTION

The groundwater shared by Israelis and Palestinians is not sufficiently covered by international water law, leaving open the issue of reasonable and equitable water use as it relates to the Middle Eastern and North African peace process. The death of Yasser Arafat, election of Hamas, removal of Saddam Hussein, passage of United Nations security Council Resolution 1483,' and conflict in Sudan significantly alter the geopolitics of the region. In 1991, Julio Barberis suggested that international law of transboundary groundwater might follow rules on oil and gas that allocate ...

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