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Everything you need to know about the UN Watercourses Convention

08 Aug 2011 | by governance-iwlearn.org
Since the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational uses of International Watercourses was adopted in 1997, water pollution and overuse have worsened in many places, and the world’s poorest people are already facing shrinking supplies. The scale of the freshwater challenge is enormous, especially with climate change making water availability more unpredictable [...]

Since the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational uses of International Watercourses was adopted in 1997, water pollution and overuse have worsened in many places, and the world’s poorest people are already facing shrinking supplies.