ABSTRACT
Human health is impossible without an adequate supply of safe drinking water. Increasingly, this requires recourse to groundwater because groundwater makes up 97 per cent of the world’s unfrozen fresh water (Puri and Aureli, 2009, p16). That, in turn, requires an adequate legal regime for groundwater both as a national and an international resource. Yet, until recently, nations have made few international agreements regarding groundwater – in sharp contrast to the numerous international agreements regarding surface waters. This is not surprising.
