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REVIEW OF EUROPEAN COMPARATIVE & INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
卷 30, 期 2, 页码 263-274出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/reel.12397
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Through analyzing policies and laws of Anglophone and Francophone African and Asian countries, it is found that these states are moving towards putting water resources in the public domain and using permits for allocation, which may pose challenges in terms of existing legal and policy frameworks for water rights.
Through history, property rights in water have been treated differently worldwide. Given the current global trend promoting water allocation through permits, and the lack of comparative literature on how property rights are changing in the global South, this article asks: How have property rights in water evolved including through granting water use permits in Anglophone and Francophone Africa and Asia? We analyse 220 policies and laws of 60 Anglophone/Francophone African and Asian countries. We conclude that (i) these States have put water in the public domain; (ii) this implies expropriating existing customary, private and riparian water rights, and States are struggling to do this democratically; (iii) having taken 'control' over water, these States then use, among others, permits to allocate water and (iv) the rules of permit allocation may undermine States' ability to reallocate water if the need arises.
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