The role of international agreements in distributing ownership of shared water resources

Abstract

International relations, which are in the form of international agreements and protocols, play a major role in preserving the rights of states as well as in good neighborliness, international cooperation, goodwill and the development of human relations in a way that leads to achieving the well-being of states, in addition to the development in the uses and the increasing needs of various resources that Countries enter into agreements with each other in order to achieve the interests of each of them, as in collective agreements such as the Geneva Convention of 1815 and the Convention on the Use of Watercourses for Non-Navigational Purposes of 1997, and bilateral agreements concluded between countries to regulate special cases, as international agreements have a role in determining ownership of water resources. Through the principles they stipulate that regulate the equitable and reasonable sharing of shared water resources.