Effective Water Law to enhance transboundary water cooperation

Enhanced understanding and expertise in international, transnational and national water law as applied to transboundary water cooperation. Integral to effective transboundary water cooperation are functional water law frameworks - that transcend the layers of water law - from international - transnational- national. Implementation occurs at the national level and the rules of international water law need to find meaningful expression at the national level through an integrated legal framework. Further operational institutional mechanisms that work within and beyond national borders to implement transboundary water cooperation requires a normative context that includes the broad range of stakeholders across the myriad layers that are involved in this matrix. SDG implementation, in the case of monitoring transboundary water cooperation asks riparian national States to report on the cooperative arrangements that apply to their transboundary basins - in many instances national governments do not appreciate the rules of law that apply both at the international but also at the national level - more accessible knowledge to water law can assist in this reporting. Interlinkages across layers of water law and governance needs more efforts and the International Water Law Academy is well-placed and keen to contribute to making this happen.