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Who Owns "Your" Water? Reclaiming Water as a Public Good Under International Trade and Investment Law

August 27, 2003

This paper, an amalgamation of two previous papers on the subject by the author, analyzes the implications of investment law treaties such as the NAFTA for domestic ability to regulate over water matters in the public interest. An expanded version of this paper, published in 2004, is available.

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Publisher: IISD

Copyright: IISD, 2003

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