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Southern African Development Community Protocol on Shared Watercourses: Challenges of Implementation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2004

Kabelo Kenneth Lebotse
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Abstract

The Rundu – Grootfontein Project, a project by which Namibia wants to divert waters of the Okavango river, may significantly affect the flow of that river through Botswana. The present paper discusses and tests rules of global and regional international watercourse law as to their applicability to the problems posed by the project. In this respect the UN Framework Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses, as well as the Southern African Development Community Protocol on Shared Watercourses form the main focal point.

Keywords

precautionary principleprinciple of equitable and reasonable utilisationSouthern African Development Community Protocol on Shared WatercoursesUN Framework Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses
Type
CURRENT LEGAL DEVELOPMENTS
Information
Leiden Journal of International Law , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , March 1999 , pp. 173 - 181
Copyright
© 1999 Kluwer Law International

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