UN-Water Resources for Policy Makers - Legal Issues, Conventions and Rights

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Legal Issues, Conventions and Rights

Draft Articles on the Law of Transboundary Aquifers
Prepared by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's International Hydrological Programme (UNESCO - IHP) and adopted by consensus by the UN General Assembly in Resolution A/RES/63/124, 2008 (348 KB)
Also available in Arabic (932 KB), Chinese (2.5 MB), French (444 KB), Russian (936 KB) and Spanish (416 KB)

Everything you need to know about the UN Watercourses Convention
WWWF- World Wildlife Fund For Nature, 2009 (2.4 MB)

Global Corruption Report 2008: Corruption in the Water Sector
Transparency International, 2008

Transboundary Water Resources Management: the Role of International Watercourse Agreements in Implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, CBD Technical Series No. 40, 2008 (768 KB)

Deterring Corruption and Improving Governance in the Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Sector: A Sourcebook
World Bank, 2008 (1.1 MB)

Corruption in the Water Sector: Causes, Consequences and Potential Reform
Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), 2006 (2.9 MB)
Also available in Spanish (948 KB)

Water as a human right?
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) environmental policy and law paper 51, 2004 (392 KB)

The Right to Water
World Health Organization (WHO), 2003

Atlas of International Freshwater Agreements
Oregon State University, published in cooperation with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 2002