Abstract

VILLAMIZAR LAMUS, Fernando. THE WORLD NEEDS OF WATER AND THE ANTARCTICA AS A NATURAL RESERVATION: IT CAN BE EXPLOITED THE ANTARCTIC WATER. rev.relac.int.estrateg.segur. [online]. 2016, vol.11, n.2, pp.75-92. ISSN 1909-3063.  https://doi.org/10.18359/ries.1871.

Lack of clean water is increasingly sensitive to meet the growing global demands. In this scenario, Antarctica, one of the largest reserves of water, can play an important role, especially in the growing trend of developing international instruments and interpretations thereof for States to ensure the right to drinking water. This article aims to analyze, through a qualitative method, if legally it would be possible to exploit Antarctic water, despite the prohibitions contained in the Madrid Protocol. To that end, the international instruments that seek to oblige States to meet the needs of drinking water to its citizens will be explored. Immediately afterwards, studies the structure of the Antarctic Treaty System and how Antarctica might be a solution to meet the growing needs of water resources, particularly as agreed in the Final Act of the Eleventh Special Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting. It will be found that the Act can be the key to exploiting Antarctic water as ice, but that the political dilemmas that require practice entail a very difficult consensus to achieve, unless in exceptional circumstances permitted.

Keywords : Antarctica; Conflict; Minerals; Water.

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