The concept fo international drainagem basin in the context of amazon cooperation treaty and the water question on that region

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the guardianship of the Amazonian water resources in the Amazon Cooperation Treaty. Its important to review the Treaty's 4th and 5th articles , considering the international drainage basin theory, created by the International Law Association, in 1966, widely adopted by international law with the Convention on the Law of the Non-navigational Uses of International Watercourses (UN, 1997).

Amazon Cooperation Treaty; water resources; international law