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"The world's freshwater supplies are increasingly threatened by rapidly increasing demand and the impacts of global climate change, but current approaches to transboundary water management are unsustainable and may threaten future global stability and international security. The absence of law in attempts to address this issue highlights the necessity for further understanding from the legal perspective. This book provides a fresh conceptualisation of water security, developing an operational methodology for identifying the four core elements of water security which must be addressed by international law: availability; access; adaptability; and ambit. The analysis of the legal framework of transboundary freshwater management based on this contemporary understanding of water security reveals the challenges and shortcomings of the current legal regime. In order to address these shortcomings, the present mindset of prevailing rigidity and state-centrism is challenged by examining how international legal instruments could be crafted to advance a more flexible and common approach towards transboundary water interaction. The concept of considering water security as a matter of 'regional common concern' is introduced to help international law play a more prominent role in addressing the challenges of global water insecurity. Ways for implementing such an approach are proposed and analysed by looking at international hydropolitics in Himalayan Asia. The book analyses transboundary water interaction as a 'case study' for advancing public international law in order to fulfil its responsibility of promoting international peace and security"--

Water rights (International law) --- Right to water --- Water security

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Water-supply --- Right to water --- Water resources development

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Cet ouvrage est un plaidoyer en faveur de l'Objectif de Developpement Durable n(deg)6. Mais, pour rendre accessible a tous, partout dans le monde, une eau potable de qualite, les problematiques a surmonter sont multiples : rarefaction de l'eau qu'il faut mieux proteger et economiser ; sujet du prix de l'eau, ou plutot de son cout, qui doit etre accessible a tous ; enjeu du partage de l'eau qui necessite un partenariat a l'echelle de bassins, parfois transfrontaliers...Face a ces defis, une certitude se dessine. Ce n'est que par la mobilisation de chacun, individuellement, et de la societe civile, de facon collective, que les choses pourront reellement avancer. La pression sur les Etats doit etre constante afin qu'ils se donnent veritablement les moyens d'atteindre l'O.D.D. n(deg)6 a l'horizon 2030.

Right to water --- Water-supply --- Water resources development --- History

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In The Human Right to Water in Latin America, Anna Berti Suman investigates the development of the right to water and of water law in the Latin American context. By examining the significance of Latin American constitutional evolution, doctrine, and jurisprudence, the author illustrates the Latin American contribution in stimulating the social, political, and economic debate on the right to water, regionally and worldwide. Through an overview on the right to water in Latin American constitutions and of the main Latin American water management systems, Berti Suman argues that an analysis of the right to water has to take account of its application in specific contexts. The intrinsic connection between the right to water and the role of the private sector is examined through topical insights into the highly privatized Chilean water services. In the conclusion, the relevance of the lessons learnt from the Latin American experience for the global debate on the right to water is convincingly proved.

Right to water --- Right to water. --- Water, Right to --- Human rights --- Latin America. --- Asociación Latinoamericana de Libre Comercio countries --- Neotropical region --- Neotropics --- New World tropics --- Spanish America

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This analysis of the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation (HRtWS) uncovers why some groups around the world are still excluded from these rights. Léo Heller, former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights to water and sanitation, draws on his own research in nine countries and reviews the theoretical, legal, and political issues involved. The first part presents the origins of the HRtWS, their legal and normative meanings and the debates surrounding them. Part II discusses the drivers, mainly external to the water and sanitation sector, that shape public policies and explain why individuals and groups are included in or excluded from access to services. In Part III, public policies guided by the realization of HRtWS are addressed. Part IV highlights populations and spheres of living that have been particularly neglected in efforts to promote access to services.

Right to water. --- Right to sanitation. --- Human rights --- Sanitation, Right to --- Water, Right to