Terje Tvedt is Professor of Geography, University of Bergen and Professor of Political Science and Global History, University of Oslo. He has published extensively on water related topics and presented two successful television documentaries, shown in 150 countries. His books include The River Nile in the Age of the British (2004) and A Journey in the Future of Water (2103).
Owen McIntyre is Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University College Cork, specialising in Environmental Law. He acts as a consultant to organisations such as the World Bank, UNDP, UNEP, EU, SIDA and GTZ on matters related to environmental law and international water law. He is a member of the Project Complaints Mechanism of the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development and of the Scientific Committee of the European Environment Agency as an expert on European and International Environmental Law. He is the author of Environmental Protection of International Watercourses under International Law (2007).
Tadesse Kassa Woldetsadik is Dean and Assistant Professor of Law and Human Rights, College of Law and Governance Studies, Addis Ababa University. He holds a PhD from the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo. His research interests include international watercourses law and Ethiopia's national human rights system. He is the author of International Watercourses Law in the Nile Basin: Three States at a Crossroads (2013).

Part I: State Sovereignty, Water Systems, and the Development of International Water Law
 
1.   Sovereignty, the Web of Water and the Myth of Westphalia
Terje Tvedt, Owen McIntyre and Tadesse Kassa Woldetsadik
2.   The Evolution of Water Law
Joseph W. Delapenna and Joyeeta Gupta 
3.   The Siren Song of Sovereignty in International Water Relations
Stephen McCaffrey 
4.   The History of Water Law in the Common Law Tradition
William Howarth 
5.   The History of Water Law in Scandinavia
Ernst Nordtveit
6.   The Concept of Sovereignty in the Jurisprudence of the International Court of
Justice
Sergio Marchisio 
 
 
Part II: Contemporary Challenges to State Sovereignty
 
7.   Determining Sovereign Rights and Duties over International Water Courses: The
Contribution of the International law Commission and the UN General Assembly
Alistair Rieu-Clarke 
8.   Sovereignty and Equitable Utilization of International Waters: Central Asia, Africa
and the Middle East
Remy L. de Jong
9. Territory, Resource Rights, and Rivers: A Philosophical Case for Overlapping
Jurisdiction
Cara Nine

10.   The History and Development of the 'Community of Interests' Doctrine
Flavia Loures 
11.   Reconciling Sovereignty with Supranationality: Lessons from the Nordic Countries
Julie Gjørtz Howden 
12.   Integration of the Right to Water in International Law: Circumventing and
Bypassing State Sovereignty
Sylvie Paquerot
13.   State Sovereignty and Transboundary Aquifers
Raya Marina Stephan and Gabriel de los Cobos
14.   Sovereignty and the Procedural Rules of International Water Law
Owen McIntyre
15.   Addressing Water Security Challenges: The International Law 'Duty to Cooperate'
as a Limit to Absolute State Sovereignty
Patricia Wouters 
 
Part III: Regional Case Studies
 
16.   Sovereignty and Equitable Utilization: A Regional Implementation Summary
Lilian del Castillo Laborde

17.   State Sovereignty and Shared Water Resources under the Islamic Legal Tradition
Yadgar Ahmad 
18.   The Water History of Colorado and the Western United States
Tom Cech
19.   Sovereignty and the Joint Management of Shared Transboundary Water Resources
in the West African Sub-Region 
Joe Goldface-Irokalibe 
20.   The Principles of Transboundary Water Resources Management in the Frontier
Watercourses Agreement Between Finland and Russia
Mizanur Rahaman 
21.   Reflections and Trends on Sovereignty over Natural Resources: The ASEAN
Amado E.Tolentino 
22.   Australian Water Law History: The Move from Introspective State Sovereignty to
a National Interest Approach and the Influence of International Law
Jennifer McKay 
23.   Transboundary Water Law: The Practice of the Peoples' Republic of China
Desheng Hu
24.   The Concept of State Sovereignty and River/Lake Basin Law in South Eastern
Europe
Slavko Bogdanovic 
25.   The Development of European Water Law and State Sovereignty
Christoph Vedder and Stefan Lorenzmeier
26. Nationalism, State Sovereignty and International Water Management in the
Zambezi River Basin
Dean Kampanje-Phiri
 
Part IV: International River Basin Case Study - the River Nile
 
27.   Water Systems, Water Agreements and State Sovereignty: The Nile Waters
Agreement of 1929 
Terje Tvedt
28.   Constructing Dams: Between the Sovereignty of States and the Rules of
International Water Law 
Mohamed Sameh Amr 
 29.  Remodeling Sovereignty: Overtures of a New Water Security Paradigm in the Nile
Basin Legal Discourse 
Tadesse Kassa Woldetsadik
30.   The Doctrines of Sovereignty and the Equitable Utilization of International Waters
under the Agreement on the Nile Ri