TY  - BOOK
AU  - Salman M.A.Salman; Kishor Uprety
TI  - Shared Watercourses and Water Security in South Asia, : Challenges of Negotiating and Enforcing Treaties
SN  - 9789004385054
AV  - HD1698.S75 S35 2018
U1  - 333.9100954 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Leiden, , Boston: 
PB  - Brill, 
KW  - Water security
KW  - South Asia
KW  - Water resources development
KW  - Water-supply
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - International cooperation
KW  - International rivers
N1  - Front Matter --; Copyright page; Salman M. A. Salman and Kishor Uprety --; Dedication; Salman M. A. Salman and Kishor Uprety --; Acknowledgements; Salman M. A. Salman and Kishor Uprety --; Shared Watercourses and Water Security in South Asia: Challenges of Negotiating and Enforcing Treaties; Salman M. A. Salman and Kishor Uprety
N2  - Shared water resources in South Asia face various challenges including scarcity, population growth, and climate change impacts on all the riparians. Consequently, national calls for water security have become louder. As a result, collaboration among the nations of South Asia for ensuring equitable sharing of such water resources has not been optimal. While most countries do not have reliable systems for data generation, those possessing some hydrological data consider them state secrets, restricting their exchange. Even when treaty obligations exist, data-sharing practices are ad hoc , and the range of information shared is limited. Thus, negotiating new transboundary water treaties amongst South Asia’s riparian countries has become a daunting task, and enforcing existing ones remains a real challenge
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004385054
ER  -