3.5 Law Relating to Water Resources

The water's international law: the UN Watercourses Convention (1997) — the shared- watercourses' rules (the equitable-and-reasonable utilisation — the factors' list; the no-significant- harm duty; the notification-and-consultation of the planned measures); the transboundary agreements' families (the river-basin treaties — the Mekong-and-Danube models); the groundwater's late arrival (the draft articles on the transboundary aquifers); the water-and- sanitation rights' face (the CESCR's general comment; the 2010 recognition); Nepal's own rivers' world (the Koshi-Gandaki-Mahakali treaties' interface; the Riparian law's South Asian faces — the Rivers-and-Sea law's domain).