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At the World Meeting of Environmental Lawyers in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Ryan Stoa (GLOWS Program Executive Officer and Fellow in Water Law and Policy at FIU’s College of Law) spoke of the need to harmonize and integrate international water laws.

A side event that took place during the United Nation’s Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), the World Meeting brought together environmental legal experts from around the world to discuss pressing issues and propose a way forward.

Harmonizing various legal instruments that codify or promote international water law – the Watercourses Convention and the Law of Transboundary Aquifers, in particular – would strengthen existing principles and lay a foundation for the development of a more robust and synergistic regime in water management worldwide, Stoa said in his presentation.

Stoa traced the history of international water laws and the role they have played in human society.  While local water laws have been in place for millenia, international water laws are a relatively recent, albeit urgently needed, development.

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Ryan Stoa, a Fellow in Water Law and Policy at the FIU College of Law, will be speaking at a Rio+20 Side Event — the World Meeting of Environmental Lawyers –  organized by the French-based International Centre of Comparative Environmental Law.

“International water resource governance is an uncoordinated and inconsistent practice,” explained Stoa, who will give a talk on the importance of harmonizing the various international legal instruments related to water entitled, “Freshwater Resources – Towards a Consistent Transboundary Freshwater Framework.”

“The 1997 United Nations Convention on the Law of Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses still hasn’t entered into force,” Stoa said. “We need to integrate and promote the various legal instruments – principally, the Watercourses Convention and the Law of Transboundary Aquifers – to have the necessary foundation for development of a more robust and synergistic regime.”

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In FIU News, Law Fellow Ryan Stoa addresses the world’s growing water crisis and how The Global Water for Sustainability (GLOWS) program, led by FIU, has become a major player in the field.

Ryan Stoa is currently the Program Executive Officer for Global Water for Sustainability – GLOWS, as well as a Fellow in Water Law and Policy at Florida International University College of Law.

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