Description: The monograph discusses the various challenges facing shared water resources in South Asia, and the response of most these countries, presented in their calls for water security. Consequently, negotiating new transboundary water treaties amongst South Asia's riparian countries has become a daunting task, and enforcing existing ones remains a rea...
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Salman M. A. Salman (JSD 1972) is an academic researcher on water law and policy, a fellow with the International Water Resources Association (IWRA), and the Editor-in-Chief of Brill Research Perspectives in International Water Law. He is the recipient of IWRA 2017 Crystal Drop Award, and has published widely on water law and policy.
Kishor Uprety (Doctorate, Sorbonne University, Paris 1984) has been a lawyer at World Bank (USA) and UNIFAD (Rome), and a private practitioner, a lecturer of law, and an in-house counsel (Nepal). Dr. Uprety has authored and co-authored three dozen books and articles on various international law and development-related themes.