9.3 Rights and Duties of Upper and Lower Riparian vis-a-vis

Downstream Benefits The upper riparian's rights: the equitable-and-reasonable utilisation (the share's use — the hydro-power, the irrigation, the storage); the duties: the no-significant-harm (the downstream's flow-not-ruined), the prior-notification (the planned-measures' notice — the consultation-and- negotiation duty), the ecosystem's protection, the flood-and-drought's cooperation. The lower riparian's rights: the flow's integrity (the natural-regime's protection against the significant harm), the equitable share, the prior-notification of the upstream's works; the duties: the non- interference with the natural flow's reasonable use upstream (the no-abuse-of-position), the benefits'-sharing's good faith (the downstream-benefits' craft: the lower riparian's gains (the flood control, the regulated flow, the power) — the benefit-sharing's principle: the gains shared, not just the waters).