A Global Treaty on Rivers: Key to True Water Security

Yale Environment 360: Is peace about to break out on the world’s rivers? It is amazing that until now there has been no global agreement on sharing international rivers. From the Mekong to the Jordan and the Niger to the Euphrates, there has been nothing to stop upstream countries from building giant dams that cut off all flows downstream. Yet in the coming weeks we could have two such treaties. First, the continuing bad news: Belligerent countries are still exerting their hydrological muscle. Just this month, Laos......

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