The Rio Lauca

Dispute over an International River

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ID5096499
AuthorsMartin Ira Glassner (corresponding author)
Year1970
Volume60
Issue2
Pages192
Publication date1970-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGeographical Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0016-7428 • E-ISSN: 1931-0846
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/213680
OpenAlexW2323379069
LanguageEN
Citations received8

have made newspaper headlines, particularly when they resulted in armed clashes between competing claimants. Others, though they have been acrimonious and have even led to the severing of diplomatic relations between states, have escaped general public notice. All of them illustrate that no welldeveloped body of international law exists pertaining to the agricultural, domestic, and industrial use of the water from such rivers and lakes. Disputes over the Nile, Indus, Colorado, and Columbia Rivers have all been settled, at least for the present, on an ad hoc basis, but no real legal precedents have been set for the resolution of similar problems elsewhere. Even smaller rivers, such as the Jordan, can provoke serious conflicts, and as the pressure of world population on the available supplies of fresh water intensifies, smaller and smaller streams are likely to be the focuses of international tension. It is for this reason that the dispute between Bolivia and Chile over the Rio Lauca, though magnified by the internal politics of both countries, is worthy of study

Dispute resolution · Geography · Indus · Notice · Political science · Politics · Population · Sociology · International Maritime Law Issues · International Relations in Latin America · Law · Transboundary Water Resource Management

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