#TFQOD #MBA #CAT2014 Check out our CAT Question Of the Day. Watch this space for the solution. Answer the question based on the passage given below. In May 2014, Vietnam became the 35th and decisive signatory of the 1997 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses. As a result, 90 days later, in August 2014, the convention will enter into force. The fact that it took almost 50 years to draft and finally achieve the necessary ratification threshold demonstrates that something is very wrong with the modern system of multilateralism. Regardless of longstanding disagreements over how cross-border freshwater resources should be allocated and managed, and understandable preferences by governments and water professionals to rely on basin agreements rather than on international legal instruments, that half-century wait can be explained only by a lack of political leadership. So, though the world may celebrate the convention’s long-awaited adoption, we cannot rest on our laurels. Roughly 60% of all freshwater runs within cross-border basins; only an estimated 40% of those basins, however, are governed by some sort of basin agreement. In an increasingly water-stressed world, shared water resources are becoming an instrument of power, fostering competition within and between countries. The struggle for water is heightening political tensions and exacerbating impacts on ecosystems. According to the passage, the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses is intended to provide which of the following? OPTIONS 1) Encouragement to signatory states for cooperative agreements to work seriously on impacts on ecosystems. 2) The capacity to share the benefits of water resources among the signatory states. 3) Legal coverage to the numerous cross-border rivers of its signatories’ territories. 4) Finance and political leadership to address the water challenges that we are all facing.
Posted on: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 02:30:00 +0000