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"Climate change, population growth and the increasing demand for water are all capable of leading to disputes over transboundary water systems. Dealing with these challenges will require the enhancing of adaptive capacity, the improving of the quality of water-resources management and a reduction in the risk of conflict between riparian states. Such changes can only be brought about through significant international cooperation. Christina Leb's analysis of the duty to cooperate and the related rights and obligations highlights the interlinkages between this duty and the principles of equitable and reasonable utilisation and the prevention of transboundary harm. In doing so, she considers the law applicable to both international watercourses and transboundary aquifers, and explores the complementarities and interaction between the rules of international water law and the related obligations of climate change and human rights law"--

Climate change, population growth and the increasing demand for water are all capable of leading to disputes over transboundary water systems. Dealing with these challenges will require the enhancing of adaptive capacity, the improving of the quality of water-resources management and a reduction in the risk of conflict between riparian states. Such changes can only be brought about through significant international cooperation. Christina Leb's analysis of the duty to cooperate and the related rights and obligations highlights the interlinkages between this duty and the principles of equitable and reasonable utilisation and the prevention of transboundary harm. In doing so, she considers the law applicable to both international watercourses and transboundary aquifers, and explores the complementarities and interaction between the rules of international water law and the related obligations of climate change and human rights law

Is the world running out of water? The problem of the adequacy of this natural resource is one of the new paradigms of security. Can war over hydro-resources be avoided through interstate cooperation? In such cases, what instruments would best alleviate conflict? Provisions to preserve future relations between states that share international waterways are discussed. This article considers whether the securitization of hydro-resources must challenge international rights, applying international relations theory to the analysis. On the one hand, neoliberal institutionalism provides a motive for countries to cooperate using instruments of international rights. On the other hand, cooperative water policies might also be achieved through the application of a realist theory of common need. This notion is based on historical analysis of other cases of this nature. Adapted from the source document.