Contents

Series Editor's Preface

Foreword

Abstract

Acknowledgments

Acronyms and Abbreviations

Cases

Chapter 1 Facing the Challenges of International Waterways

1.1 The Bank's Early Years

1.2 Initial Bank Operations on International Waterways

1.3 International Water Law in the 1950s

Chapter 2 The Search for Policies for Projects on International Waterways

2.1 The Bank and the Competing Interests of Riparian States

2.2 Early Approaches

2.3 Birth of the First Bank Policy (1956)

2.4 The 1965 Updates to the 1956 Policy

Chapter 3 The Road to the Current Bank Policy

3.1 Implementation Experience until 1985

3.2 Evolution of International Water Law 1956–1985

3.3 The 1985 OMS and the Subsequent Directives

3.4 Approaches of other International Financial Institutions

Chapter 4 Main Features of the Current Bank Policy

4.1 The Pioneering Nature of the Policy

4.2 Objectives of the Policy

4.3 Waterways Covered under the Policy

4.4 Projects Covered under the Policy

4.5 Substantive Rules of the Policy

Chapter 5 The Notification Process

5.1 Basis of the Duty to Notify

5.2 Notification: By Whom?

5.3 Notification: To Whom?

5.4 Content and Timing of Notification

5.5 Riparians' Responses

Chapter 6 Objections to Bank-Financed Projects

6.1 Bank Procedures for Dealing with Objections

6.2 Procedures under other International Instruments

6.3 Seeking the Opinion of Independent Experts

6.4 Bank Procedures for Dealing with Objections and Riparians' own Arrangements

Chapter 7 Exceptions to Notification under the Bank Policy

7.1 Early Practice

7.2 Exceptions to the Notification Requirement

7.2.1 Rehabilitation of Existing Schemes

7.2.2 Water Resources Surveys and Feasibility Studies

7.2.3 Projects in a Tributary Exclusively in the Lowest Downstream Riparian

Chapter 8 The Bank Policy and Transboundary Groundwater

8.1 The ILA Work on Transboundary Groundwater

8.2 The ILC Work on Transboundary Groundwater

8.3 Transboundary Groundwater under International Agreements

8.4 World Bank Approach to Transboundary Groundwater

Chapter 9 Linkages of the Policy to other World Bank Policies

9.1 Basis for the Linkages with other Policies

9.2 Projects in Disputed Areas—Land and Water

9.3 Environmental Aspects of Projects on International Waterways

Chapter 10 Conclusion (APPENDICES)

Appendix 1: OM No. 8–Projects on International Inland Waterways (1956)

Appendix 2: OM No. 5.05–Projects on International Waters (1965)

Appendix 3: OMS No. 2.32–Projects on International Waterways (1985)

Appendix 4: OD 7.50–Projects on International Waterways (1990)

Appendix 5A: OP 7.50–Projects on International Waterways (2001)

Appendix 5B: BP 7.50–Projects on International Waterways (2001)

Appendix 5C: GP 7.50–Projects on International Waterways

Bibliography

Index