International Water Case Law

Permanent Court of Justice

Territorial Jurisdiction of the International Commission of the Oder River

[1929], P.C.I.J. (Ser.A) No. 23, (Sept. 10)

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Jurisdiction of the European Commission of the Danube Between Galatz and Braila,

Advisory Opinion, [1927], P.C.I.J. (Ser. B) No. 14

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Oscar Chinn Case,

[1934], P.C.I.J. (Ser. A/B) No. 63

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Diversion of Water from the Meuse case, (Netherlands v. Belgium)

[1937], P.C.I.J. (Ser. A/B) No. 70

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International Court of Justice

Land, Island and Maritime Frontier Dispute

(El Salvador/Honduras: Nicaragua Intervening) Judgment of Sept. 11, 1992

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Case Concerning the Gabcikovo-Nagymaros Project

(Hungary/Slovakia) September 1997

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Case Concerning Kasikili/Sedudu Island

(Botswana/Namibia) 13 December 1999

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Notification of a Joint Request to the ICJ by Benin and Niger
Regarding a Boundary Dispute on the River Niger

Press Release
Application of 11 April 2002 (PDF)

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Application for Revision of the Judgment of 11 September 1992
in the Case concerning the Land, Island and Maritime Frontier Dispute

(El Salvador v. Honduras: Nicaragua intervening) (El Salvador v. Honduras) Judgment of 18 December 2003

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Case Concerning the Frontier Dispute

(Benin/Niger), Judgment of  12 July  2005

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Pulp Mills on the River Uruguay

(Argentina v. Uruguay) Rejection of Argentina's request for provisional measures (July 13, 2006)

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Other Tribunals

Helmand River Delta Case

Arbitral Awards of 19 August 1872 and 10 April 1905

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San Juan River Case

Arbitral Award of 22 March 1888, rendered by Grover Cleveland

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Kushk River Case

Award of 22 August 1893, rendered by an Anglo-Russian Commission

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Faber Case

Award of 1903 rendered by the Umpire, Henrey M. Duffield, appointed by a German-Venezuelan Mixed Claims Commission

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Chamizal Arbitration

Argument and Appendix to the case of the United States before the International Boundary Commission, United States-Mexico, Hon. Eugene Lafleur, presiding under the Provisions of the Convention between the United States of America and the United States of Mexico, Concluded June 24, 1910 by the United States (1911)

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Tacna-Arica Case

Award of 4 March 1925, rendered by President Calvin Coolidge

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Württemberg and Prussia v. Baden

(The Donauversinkung Case), German Staatsgerichtshof, 18 June 1927

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Zarumilla River Case

Arbitral Award of 14 July 1945, rendered by the Chancellery of Brazil

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Lake Lanoux Arbitration case

(Spain v. France), 24 Int'l L. Rep. 101 (1957)

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Gut Dam Case

(Canada/United States of America), Decisions of 15 January 1968, 12 February 1968, and 27 September 1968, rendered by the Lake Ontario Claims Tribunal

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Helmand River Case

(Afghanistan/Persia)

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San Juan River Case

(Costa Rica v Nicaragua

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