9.15 Role of UN on Non-navigational Use of International Waters

The UN's record: the ILC's Watercourses Convention project (the codification's decades — the 1997 convention's adoption); the General Assembly's resolutions (the water laws' development); the UN-water-and-agencies' frame (the watercourses' statistics, the assistance); the Watercourses Convention's entry into force (2014 — the treaty's late life); the UN's soft-law faces (the water's human-right recognition — the 2010 resolution's era); the UN's dispute roles (the good offices — the Article-33's craft). Exam Focus Long questions (the unit is the rivers' bank): (i) The principles of utilisation (the equitable-utilisation + no-harm two pillars — the banker); (ii) The instruments' line (Helsinki 1966 → UNWC 1997 → Berlin 2004 — the codification's story); (iii) The upper-vs- lower riparian's rights-and-duties. Short questions: the Harmon doctrine; the basin's concept; the IJC; the Danube Commission; the Ganges Treaty. Trick areas: (i) The EQUITABLE UTILISATION governs; the no-significant-harm qualifies (not the absolute veto — the Harmon doctrine's death); (ii) The Helsinki Rules = the ILA's 1966 restatement (NOT a treaty — the soft-law codification); the UNWC 1997 = the treaty (in force 2014); the Berlin Rules = the ILA's 2004 revision; (iii) The basin's concept is MODERN (the whole drainage system) — the classical = the river's channel only; (iv) The IJC = the Canada-US 1909 model; the Danube = the European commission's model — the pair's geography; (v)…