Fresh Water and International Economic Law [Hardcover]

Fresh Water and International Lawanalyzes the impacts of the international economic and legal framework on domestic fresh water resource management and protection. It discusses the effects water services liberalization have on human rights obligations relating to water supply, and provides an overview of the settlement of water-related disputes. Are governments free to decide whether or not to export water resources? Can foreign investors sue host states for adopting measures to control water pollution? Can international trade rules be used to reduce or eliminate water related subsidies? Do rules on the liberalization of water services affect domestic and international human rights obligations relating to water supply? How do the procedural rights of states, individuals, affected communities and investors affect decisions regarding the right to drinking water, the rights of investors to exploit water resources, and the rights of governments to protect their lakes, rivers and groundwater?


List of Tables and Figures
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
Introduction
Part 1 Trade of Freshwater: Geopolitics, Law and Economics
1. Cooperation or Confrontation: Sustainable Water Use in an International Context,Urs Luterbacher and Ellen Wiegandt
2. Water Transfers: A Means to Achieve Sustainable Water Use,Daniel Tarlock
3. Water Transfers and International Trade Law,Edith Brown Weiss
Part 2 Water Services, the GATS and Related Issues
4. The Basic Right to Water,Stephen C. McCaffrey
5. Water Services and the WTO,Mereille Cossy
6. GATS and its Impact on Private Sector Participation in Water Services,Elizabeth Tuerk, Aaron Ostrovsky and Robert Speed
7. Economics of Waters Services and the Right to Water,Henri Smets
Part 3 Water Subsidies and Agriculture
8. Ground Water Regulation and Water Crisis Rhetoric:lÃ4