The purpose of this Legislative Study is to provide interested FAO Member Countries with a compendium of basic documentation, often not easily available, on the law of international water resources. It contains the most general international conventions, declarations, and resolutions adopted by Governments, international legal bodies and international organizations, as well as some of the judicial decisions and the teaching of the most qualified publicists of various nations concerning themanagement (utilization, conservation and administration) of international water resources, i.e. inland (non-maritime) water resources of rivers, hydrographic systems and drainage basins of international concern.