PART V.
HARMFUL CONDITIONS AND EMERGENCY SITUATIONS
Article 27
Prevention and mitigation of harmful conditions
Watercourse States shall, individually and, where appropriate, jointly, take all appropriate
measures to prevent or mitigate conditions related to an international watercourse that may be harmful to
other watercourse States, whether resulting from natural causes or human conduct, such as flood or ice
conditions, water-borne diseases, siltation, erosion, salt-water intrusion, drought or desertification.