It has not been an easy task to find the legal nature of water rights in the countries including Korea. Because of the importance of the relation between human life and water and the possibility of variety of disputes over water, nobody will reject th...
It has not been an easy task to find the legal nature of water rights in the countries including Korea. Because of the importance of the relation between human life and water and the possibility of variety of disputes over water, nobody will reject the necessity for setting up legal theory on water rights. The issues such as who has the ownership of water or how to allocate it should be dealt with legally. Without it, disputes between countries and stake holders in any country cannot be settled in justice. In this article, to find the legal character of rights relating to water and to find out the new legal issues which are appearing with climate change, pressure on water resources, new trend of human right to water and so on are the main goals. On top of that, there will be an attempt to seek possible legal solutions to the issues on water rights.