The law of international watercourses focuses on the mutual rights and obligations of watercourse States and the obligations owed to third States and to the international community in general are ignored. The present study sets out to challenge this approach and calls for a paradigm shift in the Kuhnian sense. The proposed paradigm would arguably not only provide an all-encompassing legal
... [Show full abstract] framework but also demonstrate that the alleged “inevitable” conflict between the principles of no-significant harm and equitable utilisation does not, and in fact cannot, exist.