U.N. Convention on International Watercourses

    Forty years after the United Nation General Assembly’s Resolution in this regard, international watercourses finally have a convention that governs their use, protection and administration. And thus, international watercourses are no longer dubbed as the only main natural resource governed only by customary international law and lacking an international convention. Finally, the 35 documents required to approve and ratify the convention have been completed. That said, not a single country from the Americas has ratified the convention yet but the fact that the convention has finally come into force in 2014 will lead several countries to ratify it as has been the case with several other conventions.