® SOUTHERN AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY "Regulation of the flow of means the use of hydraulic works or any other the waters of a shared continuing measure to alter, vary or otherwise control watercourse" the flow of waters of a shared watercourse; 2. "Shared watercourse" means a watercourse passing through or forming the border between two or more Watercourse States; "Significant Harm". means non-trivial harm capable of being established by objective evidence without necessarily rising to the level of being substantial; "State Party". means a Member of SADC that ratifies or accedes to this Protocol; "Watercourse" means a system of surface and ground waters consisting by virtue of their physical relationship a unitary whole normally flowing into a common terminus such as the sea, lake or aquifer; "Watercourse State" means a State Party in whose territory part of a watercourse is situated. Any other term defined in the Treaty and used in this Protocol shall have the same meaning as ascribed to it in the Treaty. ARTICLE2 OBJECTIVE The overall objective of this Protocol is to foster closer cooperation for judicious, sustainable and co-ordinated management, protection and utilisation of shared watercourses and advance the SADC agenda of regional integration and poverty alleviation. In order to achieve this objective, this Protocol seeks to: (a) promote and facilitate the establishment of shared watercourse agreements and Shared Watercourse Institutions for the management of shared watercourses; (b) advance the sustainable, equitable and reasonable utilisation of the shared watercourses; (c) promote a co-ordinated and integrated environmentally sound development and management of shared watercourses; (d) promote the harmonisation and monitoring of legislation and policies for planning, development, conservation, protection of shared watercourses, and allocation of the resources thereof; and -3- R.evised Prot o1·.. !8 .Wate urs•