Surya Nath Upadhyay served the Government of Nepal for more than three decades and held various important and critical positions. During his career as a civil servant he remained involved in water resources many years and performed various roles negotiator and decision maker. Prf-,,}r-oti'v associated with JVS, a civil society e,-.2 water resources development. Mr. Up,;-Thy.,-,y is a lawyer by training and holds a master's in law (LLM) from London University. This book provides a systematic and comprehensive treatment of both the substantive and procedural aspects of the international watercourses law as well as the law and politics of Indo-Nepal relations regarding the utilization of water resources of Nepal. This book is also an authoritative account of the issues surrounding Ind° Nepal relations concerning water resources. The content of the book is rich and compre-hensive and the analysis presented is highly interesting intellectually. Surya P. Sublidi