Conflict and Cooperation on South Asia's International Rivers

A Legal Perspective

'Conflict and Cooperation on South Asia's International Rivers' traces the development of international water law. This book focuses on the hydro-politics of four countries in the South Asia region: Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Pakistan. It analyzes the problems that these countries have encountered as riparians of international rivers and how they have addressed these problems. In particular, this study reviews the treaty regimes governing the Indus River basin, the Ganges River basin, and the Kosi, Gandaki, and Mahakali river basins. Each of these regimes is described in-depth, with special attention devoted to the main problems each of these treaties sought to address. The authors also review the treaty experience and offer observations on bilateralism and multilateralism.

... with no substitute, and over which there is total dependency, has heightened
both conflict and cooperation over a large number of international rivers.2 In
some areas of the world, the competing demands of states 1 An international
river is one either flowing through the territory of two or more states (also referred
to as a successive river), or one separating the territory of two states from one
another (also referred to as a boundary river or a contiguous river). See, A. H.
Garretson, et al., ...