The Human Right to Water

Significance, Legal Status and Implications for Water Allocation

Datos Bibliográficos

ID19934876
AutoresInga T Winkler (0000-0001-5878-4387, autor de correspondencia)
Año2012
Fecha de publicación2012-01-01
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaThe Human Right to Water (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialHart Publishing (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5040/9781472566089
OpenAlexW1594744844
ISBN9781472566089
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas11

The United Nations General Assembly and the Human Rights Council recognised the human right to water in 2010. This formal recognition has put the issue high on the international agenda, but by itself leaves many questions unanswered. This book addresses this gap and clarifies the legal status and meaning of the right to water through a detailed analysis of its legal foundations, legal nature, normative content and corresponding State obligations. The human right to water has wide-ranging implications for the distribution of water. Examining these implications requires putting the right to water into the broader context of different water uses and analysing the linkages and competition with other human rights that depend on water for their realisation. Water allocation is a highly political issue reflecting societal power relations, with current priorities often benefitting the well-off and powerful. Human rights, in contrast, require prioritising the most basic needs of all people

Epistemology · Human rights · International law · Law and economics · Legal pluralism · Legal realism · Legal research · Legal status · Meaning (existential) · Normative · Political science · Sociology · State (computer science) · Environmental law and policy · Human Rights and Development · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Water Governance and Infrastructure