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Realising the Right to Water and Sanitation in Nigeria : a Human Rights-Based-Ecosystem Approach
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ISBN: 9781780689012 9781780689029 1780689012 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cambridge Mortsel Chicago Intersentia

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Recognition of the right to water and sanitation is an important and global issue. The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights explains the obligations of States in realising this right in its General Comment No. 15. This book investigates how this right can be realised from the context of Nigeria and other States in similar circumstances. Recognising that water is needed by both human beings and other living things, the author approaches the right to water from both a human rights and an environmental perspective. He analyses Nigeria’s laws, policies and practices and assesses their compatibility with the relevant international legal obligations. Through empirical data, the factors contributing to water and sanitation problems and the extent of Nigerians’ awareness of the existence of the right are examined. Legal interpretation, human rights-based and ecosystem approaches demonstrate how the right can be realised in Nigeria.


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L'eau et la guerre : éléments pour un régime juridique
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ISBN: 9782802734314 2802734318 Year: 2011 Volume: *5 Publisher: Bruxelles: Bruylant,


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Towards a sustainable human right to water : supporting vulnerable people and protecting water resources
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ISBN: 9781780686127 1780686129 9781780686165 1780686161 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cambridge Antwerp Chicago Intersentia

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Towards a Sustainable Human Right to Water is a timely examination of a critical and time-sensitive subject in the field of human rights law. Aside from being a basic necessity for human survival, the United Nations identifies water as being a keystone of sustainable development and at the very heart of healthy ecosystems and socio-economic development. Thus, the book poses the critical question how the concept of sustainable development can contribute to the sustainable realisation of the human right to water for vulnerable people. It takes a three step approach in providing an answer to this fundamental question of our time. Firstly, the case is made for a broadening of the scope of vulnerability to include environmental factors and it is argued that the notion of vulnerability, as it is currently understood within the human rights discourse, is too limited. It should not only be assessed by looking at the social and economic circumstances of people or at specific groups, but also by looking at the environment that one lives in. This is certainly important for the realisation of the human right to water, which impacts the unserved or underserved to greater effect as they are directly dependent on their environment. Widening the scope of vulnerability would allow for more specific targeted measures when environmental problems are considered in connection with social vulnerability. Secondly, principles of sustainable development can be used to shape and further develop the human right to water. This would allow for the right to be realised in a sustainable manner and states could comply with both international human rights legislation and international environmental legislation. While these two fields of law have developed separately, their perspectives can nevertheless be reconciled if their different interests are balanced. Finally, an assessment framework is developed to analyze how states can implement the human right to water in a sustainable way. Bringing together the different disciplines of law, economics and public administration, it provides for basic water system knowledge which is required for a comprehensive exploration of the main challenges, and for offering recommendations specific to a national or regional context. This framework has been applied to the situation in Suriname, demonstrating the need for multi-level interventions.


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The human right to water : a legal comparative perspective at the international, regional and domestic level
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ISBN: 9781780682976 9781780685557 Year: 2015 Publisher: Cambridge Antwerp Portland Intersentia

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" This book summarises the history of the human right to water and examines its main content and the obligations that derive from this right. The main purpose of the recognition of the human right to water is to guarantee to everyone access to sufficient, safe and affordable drinking water to satisfy personal and domestic uses. This book discusses whether the human right to water is recognised as a derivative right or as an independent right at three levels - at universal, regional and domestic - where human rights are recognised and enforced. At the domestic level a case study approach has been used with focus on Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Colombia. Freshwater resources are not static; they are constantly flowing and crossing international boundaries. This situation and the relative scarcity of water resources have a direct impact on a state's capacity to realise the human right to water. The human right to water is examined in a transboundary water context, where the use and management of an international watercourse in one riparian state can directly or indirectly affect the human right to water in another riparian state. 0For this reason, this book analyses whether the core principles of international water law can be used to contribute to the realisation of the extraterritorial application of the right to water."--Back cover.

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Droit de l'eau --- Recht op water --- Right to Water --- Water (Right to) --- Water [Recht op ] --- Comparative law --- Water --- Water-supply --- Human rights --- Right to water --- Droit comparé --- Eau --- Droits de l'homme (Droit international) --- Droit à l'eau --- Law and legislation --- Purification --- Droit --- Approvisionnement --- Epuration --- Droit à l'eau (droit international) --- Droits de l'homme (droit international) --- Gestion de l'eau --- Distribution de l'eau --- Consommation d'eau --- Utilisation de l'eau --- BPB1507 --- Waterbeheer --- Watervoorziening --- Waterverbruik --- Gebruik van het water --- Right to water. --- Droit comparé --- Droit à l'eau --- коришћење воде --- użycie wody --- utilização da água --- upotreba vode --- χρήση του νερού --- veekasutus --- ūdens izmantošana --- utilizzazione dell'acqua --- Wassernutzung --- vattenanvändning --- use of water --- veden käyttö --- utilizarea apei --- raba voda --- използване на водата --- vandens naudojimas --- anvendelse af vand --- vízkészlet-hasznosítás --- utilización del agua --- využití vody --- użu tal-ilma --- користење вода --- gebruik van het water --- përdorim i ujit --- využitie vody --- искористување на водата --- korištenje vode --- uporaba vode --- konsum tal-ilma --- water consumption --- poraba vode --- consumo idrico --- потрошувачка на вода --- spotreba vody --- vattenförbrukning --- κατανάλωση νερού --- potrošnja vode --- konsum uji --- ūdens patēriņš --- потрошња воде --- zużycie wody --- consumo de agua --- vandforbrug --- consum de apă --- spotřeba vody --- waterverbruik --- vandens (su)vartojimas --- vízfogyasztás --- veetarbimine --- consumo de água --- Wasserverbrauch --- vedenkulutus --- потребление на вода --- квалитет на водите --- oskrba z vodo --- provvista tal-ilma --- dodávka vody --- снабдевање водом --- Wasserversorgung --- water supply --- vandens tiekimas --- furnizim me ujë --- zaopatrzenie w wodę --- водоснабдяване --- suministro de agua --- водоснабдување --- alimentare cu apă --- ūdensapgāde --- watervoorziening --- opskrba vodom --- rozvod vody --- vattenförsörjning --- abastecimento de água --- ύδρευση --- vanddistribution --- veevarustus --- vesihuolto --- vízellátás --- distribuzione idrica --- approvisionnement en eau --- veevärk --- снабдување со вода --- παροχέτευση νερού --- zásobování vodou --- distribuirea apei --- vedenjakelu --- water distribution --- aprovisionamento de água --- distribúcia vody --- waterleiding --- abastecimiento de agua --- adduction d'eau --- ūdens padeve --- vízművek --- condução de água --- vandforsyning --- wateraanvoer --- распределба на вода --- shpërndarja e ujit --- vattenförråd --- distribucija vode --- παροχή νερού --- vattentillförsel --- vattendistribution --- Wasserzuleitung --- дистрибуција на вода --- alimentation en eau --- alimentazione idrica --- vandtilførsel --- vandens paskirstymas --- систем за дистрибуција на вода --- framdragande av vattenledning --- připojení vody --- Wasserleitung --- υδροδότηση --- approvvigionamento idrico --- vízszolgáltatás --- vandentvarka --- водопривреда --- vízgazdálkodás --- διαχείριση των υδάτων --- spracovanie vody --- vodní hospodářství --- veemajandus --- menaxhim uji --- upravljanje voda --- vattenförvaltning --- bainistiú uisce --- водостопанство --- gestione delle acque --- vandforvaltning --- vesitalous --- managementul apei --- gestão das águas --- gospodarka wodna --- waterbeheer --- water management --- икономическо управление на водата --- gestión del agua --- vodno gospodarstvo --- immaniġġjar tal-ilma --- Wasserbewirtschaftung --- ūdens resursu apsaimniekošana --- gestione delle risorse idriche --- nakládání s vodou --- hospodaření s vodou --- управување водни ресурси --- ġestjoni tal-ilma --- vandens ūkio tvarkyba --- vodoprivreda --- ūdens resursu pārvaldība --- upravljanje vodama --- gospodarenje vodama --- waterschap --- úsáid uisce --- ídiú uisce --- soláthar uisce

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