The Regulation of the Non-Navigational Use of the Euphrates and Tigris River System

International Law Regulating the Distribution and Utilisation of the Water of Euphrates and Tigris Illustrated by the Ataturk and Ilisu Dams

Nicolas Bremer

• Publisher: Eleven International Publishing
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN: 9789462746817
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Law
• Subtopic: Environmental Law
• Index: Law

This book analyzes the distribution and utilisation of the water of the Euphrates and Tigris river system from the perspective of international law. It shows which international treaties and provisions of international customary law regulating the non-navigational use of international freshwater systems are binding for the riparian states, Iraq, Syria and Turkey, and how the distribution and utilisation of the waters of the river system are governed by these. This study uses two Turkish dams-the Atat¼rk Dam on the Euphrates and the Ilisu Dam on the Tigris-to illustrate which provisions of international law are binding and what problems will arise concerning the application of these principles. [Subject: Environmental Law, International Law]

Table of contents

• Table of Contents
• List of Abbreviations
• 1 Introduction
• 2 International Law Governing the Euphrates’s Non-Navigational Use and the Atatürk Dam
• 3 International Law Governing the Tigris’s Non-Navigational Use and the Ilisu Dam
• 4 Final Conclusion and Outlook
• Annex – Maps
• Bibliography
• List of Cited Judgements, Decisions, Orders and Awards of International and National Courts and Arbitral Tribunals
• List of Cited International Treaties, Conventions, Agreements, etc., Draft Treaties, Conventions, Agreements, Articles, etc. and Declarations
• List of Cited Domestic Laws and Regulations