The Human Right to Water Theory, Practice and Prospects [Hardcover]

The first book to engage in a comprehensive examination of the human right to water in theory and in practice.In the last decade, the right to water has emerged from relative obscurity to occupy a prominent place in human rights. This is the first book to engage in a comprehensive examination of the right to water in theory and in practice across a diverse range of themes.In the last decade, the right to water has emerged from relative obscurity to occupy a prominent place in human rights. This is the first book to engage in a comprehensive examination of the right to water in theory and in practice across a diverse range of themes.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 descriptively and prescriptively. It analyses the recognition, use and partly impact, of the right to water in international and comparative law, civil society mobilisation and public policy. It also scrutinises the normative implications of the right to water with a focus on challenges and puzzles it creates for law and policymaking. These questions are explored globally and comparatively within different dynamics of the sector - water allocation, water access and urban and rural water reform - and in conjunction with the right to sanitation. This multi-disciplinary volume reveals the diverse ways in which the right to water has been adopted, but also its limitations when faced with the realities of political economy, political ecology and partly, traditional legal thought.1. Introduction: the right to water in context Malcolm Langford and Anna F. S. Russell; Part I. Water Allocation: 2. Water allocation, customary practice and the right to water: rethinking the regulatory model Barbara van Koppen; 3. Indigenous peoples and the sale of water rights: the case of Chile Domingo A. Lovera Parmo; 4. Water for producing food for basic consumption: guaranteed by the right tlÓ,