Nicaragua and Costa Rica have been involved in a legal dispute concerning border rights and purported environmental damage along the San Juan and Colorado rivers since 2010.
The Costa Rican government accused Nicaragua, in a hearing held 14 October, of building two artificial canals along the San Juan river in an effort to push the Rio Sam further South. It claimed it has irrefutable proof that Nicaragua has violated the ICJ provisional measures dictated in 2011 ordering both countries to withdraw all personnel from the border region. Oral hearings will continue 16 and 17 October and Costa Rica is asking the Court to protect its sovereignty.
Nicaragua claims it had to dredge the river because of sediments that could cause flooding. The San Juan River is one of the routes, not defined yet, considered for Nicaragua's interoceanic canal for which feasibilities studies are actually underway. The Canal works are expected to start by end-2014.
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