Quantifying and Simplifying the 1997 UNWC’s Guidelines to Mitigate Hegemony in Transboundary Watercourse Negotiations

The 1997 United Nations Convention on the Law of Non-navigational Uses International Watercourses (UNWC) contains a negotiation framework for transboundary water rights. However, it is subjective document open to wide range possibilities and interpretations. Water Rights Allocations (WRAs) as described by Dinar Nigatu (2013) Tsur (2017) provide limited number quantifiable allocation based UNWC. It suggested that this methodology streamlines process reduces effects hydro hegemony. These methodologies are explored applied through case study Orontes River Basin.