Sewerage and Drainage

(d) The effects of the use or uses of the watercourses in one watercourse State on other watercourse States

(c) The population dependent on the watercourse in each watercourse State

The sewers.

Storm drain?

e) submarine cables or submarine pipelines,

In particular, an international watercourse shall be used and developed by watercourse States with a view to attaining optimal and sustainable utilization thereof and benefits therefrom, taking into account the interests of the watercourse States concerned, consistent with adequate protection of the watercourse.

Piped water

However, it can be presumed that extraction of water is permitted up to the amount of water recharge to the watercourse so that the total quantity of the water in the watercourse remains stable.

Probably gone down the storm drain.

Can you guess? Someone who's slippery and evasive.

(c) Inland waterways

1. Watercourse States shall in their respective territories utilize an international watercourse in an equitable and reasonable manner.

Watercourse States shall take all measures necessary to prevent the introduction of species, alien or new, into an international watercourse which may have effects detrimental to the ecosystem of the watercourse resulting in significant harm to other watercourse States.

(a) The Watercourse Act ensures that due consideration is given to discharge and environmental matters in the administration of the watercourses

(b) quot International watercourse quot means a watercourse, parts of which are situated in different States

4. Where a watercourse agreement is concluded between two or more watercourse States, it shall define the waters to which it applies.

1. Watercourse States shall, in utilizing an international watercourse in their territories, take all appropriate measures to prevent the causing of significant harm to other watercourse States.

2. Watercourse States shall participate in the use, development and protection of an international watercourse in an equitable and reasonable manner.

A visit to the Paris sewers.

Well, it's been done.

Ma knows all about these floods down here.

1. Watercourse States shall, at the request of any of them, enter into consultations concerning the management of an international watercourse, which may include the establishment of a joint management mechanism.

And that water that you see there is the open lead, and through that lead, bowhead whales migrate north each springtime.

So these outfall pipes have been retrofitted to shut seawater off from entering the system.

The corresponding article 5 of the 1997 Watercourses Convention defines such rights of watercourse States as the right of equitable utilization vis à vis other watercourse States, on the one hand, and the right of reasonable utilization vis à vis watercourse resources, on the other hand.

However, it may well be covered by the 1997 Convention on the Law of the Non navigational Uses of International Watercourses ( 1997 Watercourses Convention ).

The villagers have constructed a water supply themselves, using pipes to draw from nearby springs.

a) Watercourse States shall in their respective territories utilise a shared watercourse in an equitable and reasonable manner.

It also corresponds to the watercourse agreements provided for in article 3 of the 1997 Watercourses Convention.

This water has an ugly smell.

Management of Shared Watercourses

International Hydrographic Organization

Settlements with plumbing and sewerage

Parties to watercourse agreements

Can you smell the perfume?

The sewers lead to the river. Into the sewers.

Ginger ale, Doug?

Do you know The Ancient Mariner?

Water, sailor! Yes, Lieutenant!

Where's a gutter, there's a stream

In particular, a shared watercourse shall be used and developed by Watercourse States with a view to attain optimal and sustainable utilisation thereof and benefits therefrom, taking into account the interests of the Watercourse States concerned, consistent with adequate protection of the watercourse for the benefit of current and future generations.

b) Watercourse States shall participate in the use, development and protection of a shared watercourse in an equitable and reasonable manner.

3. Watercourse States shall, at the request of any of them, consult with a view to arriving at mutually agreeable measures and methods to prevent, reduce and control pollution of an international watercourse, such as

Thus, its relevance to groundwaters is rather peripheral.