Book Review - Transboundary Water Resources Management: A Multidisciplinary Approach

Authors

Kavitha Pramod
Gabriel Eckstein, Texas A&M University School of LawFollow

Document Type

Book Review

Publication Date

8-2012

Journal Title

International Journal of Water Resources Development

ISSN

1360-0648

DOI

10.1080/07900627.2012.713907

Abstract

Review Extract:

When he surveyed the American West in the latter part of the 1800s, John Wesley Powell famously recommended that irrigation systems and state frontiers be based on watershed contours lest the borders result in “a great deal of contention” among jurisdictions. No more prescient words have ever been spoken (U.S. House of Representatives, 1891, p. 254). Today, states and nations on every continent expend considerable energy disputing water-related boundaries, contesting their neighbours’ water uses and projects, and arguing over water rights. The result is a challenging system of transboundary water management that is politically charged and, all too often, results in mismanagement and waste rather than efficient and cooperative administration of shared water resources.

First Page

693

Last Page

695

Num Pages

3

Volume Number

28

Issue Number

4

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Recommended Citation

Kavitha Pramod & Gabriel Eckstein, Book Review - Transboundary Water Resources Management: A Multidisciplinary Approach, 28 Int'l J. Water Reources Dev. 693 (2012).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.tamu.edu/facscholar/1178