In a short space of time, the right to water has emerged from relative obscurity to claim a
prominent place in human rights theory and practice. This book explores this rise …

Water is an indispensable element for life. Social and economic development is closely tied
to water. Poverty is prevalent mostly in areas that face water shortage. Water-related …

Scholarship on the right to water has proliferated in interesting and unexpected ways in
recent years. This book broadens existing discussions on the right to water in order to shed …

Politicians and diplomats have for many years proclaimed a human right to water as a
solution to the global water crisis, most recently in the 2010 UN General Assembly …

Water is life-giving and non-substitutable. Yet safe water remains inaccessible to millions of
people around the world. Given this, the fundamental importance of ful¼lling people's right …

This Advanced Review analyzes recent debates over the human right to water. While
accepting critiques from scholars that the right to water risks entrenching unequal and unjust …

In spite of its official recognition by the United Nations in 2010, the human right to water
remains a contested notion as illustrated by three main debates:(a) the definition of its …

In recent years there has been an emergence of a critical scholarship within the social
sciences–particularly in the field of political philosophy and law–which has sought to bring to …

While water has been the subject of bilateral and multilateral agreements for millennia, it has
only been considered through the lens of human rights much more recently. The human …

Water history reveals millennia-old struggles over the ownership of water, the pollution and
depletion of water sources, and conflicting water uses. What is new is the scale of these …