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As the basic natural source of life, water resources play a decisive role in the development and welfare of societies. Due to the economic and social value of the resource and related interests, conflicts between different categories of users as well as states have gradually led to the adoption of rules and guiding principles for the distribution and protection of water resources.1 At the same time, legally supported priority positions concerning the use of waters have emerged. Such positions and priorities within groups of interested owners and users or actors enjoy at least occasional legal protection on a constitutional basis. This is a reality where some regions suffer from water scarcity,2 public interests tend to restrict the full enjoyment of water priorities under the control of a national water policy, for instance concerning the right to establish water-consuming plants. Also, where states have no problems with water quantity, they are, for different reasons, interested in adopting national or regional water management plans as the basis for legal decision-making in permitting cases and for the organization of public water services. Partners to international water regimes and member states of regional alliances are obliged to follow jointly adopted requirements concerning environmental quality, planning procedures, international cooperation,

Introduction: the concept and traditions of water management law