1. The early-line: the navigation's-first-law (the Westphalia's-1648 (the rivers' free-navigation (the Rhine's-commissions (the 1815's-Vienna-and-the Rhine's-internationalisation)))); the 19th- century's-treaties (the Congo-and-the-Nile (the Berlin-1885's-African-faces));
2. The 20th-century's-uses: the utilisation's-turn (the irrigation's-and-the-hydro's (the Indus-1960 (the division-not-the-sharing (the eastern-and-the-western's))); the Columbia's- benefit-sharing (the US-Canada's-pioneering (the 1961-64's (the power's-payment's))); the principle's-build (the Lake-Lanoux-1957 (the consultation's (the no-veto's)); the 1966-Helsinki (the private-law-association's (the reasonable-and-equitable's-first-codification));
3. The modern-era: the 1997-UN-Watercourses (the framework (the adoption's-consensus- minus (the dissenters' votes (the India's-and-the-others')))); the 1992-UNECE (the Europe's- regional (the transboundary's (the parties-beyond-Europe's-2013-amendment))); the basin- treaties' (the Mekong-1995 (the Zambezi (the Nile's-2010-controversial (the GERD's-era (the names-only))))); the courts' (the ICJ's-Gabcikovo-1997 (the Pulp-Mills-2010 (the Kishenganga-2013 (the law's-case-line (the exam's-citations)))));