Contents -- 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.