Derecho de aguas tomo VI

Water law is a discipline that, due to its special relevance for the survival of man on the planet, has been growing in a special way in Colombian law, which, without a doubt, recognizes the need to organize different human activities through the legal framework. that in one way or another generate impacts on the resource.

Despite the importance of this branch of the legal system, Colombia still does not have a legal water statute that regulates and allows for greater coherence to the dispersed regulations that have attempted to regulate the issue. This factor has meant that water law is mainly integrated into norms of civil law and environmental law that cover such relevant aspects as the ownership of water, the ways of acquiring the right to use water, cases of private property, the easements, the actions necessary for their conservation and purification, etc.

Along with the evolution of Colombian water law, international law has also focused its attention on this natural resource, and its position to avoid transnational conflicts due to waters that transcend the borders of the States is becoming clearer every day. and which, by their very nature, require coordinated actions from these entities to avoid environmental, social, cultural, political, etc. impacts. Today's world demands multiple actions that specifically respond to the needs related to water, a resource that seems more scarce every day, and that, for this reason, generates enormous conflicts in a society that cries out for a just social order, based on water management. adequate of this natural element.

Faced with such needs, the Externado University of Colombia, in developing the activities of the Department of Environmental Law and its Research Group, continues to promote the study of this specialty of the legal system, and on this occasion presents Volume VI of the Water Law Collection, which on this occasion has articles submitted by some of the members of the group, as well as national and foreign guests who have wanted to share with us their studies related to this topic. The work has been structured in two parts: the first, referring to international law and the study of some issues in the sphere of legislation other than Colombian, and the second, which focuses on the study of Colombian water law.