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"This book explores how conflicts around access to water shape cities, citizenship and infrastructures by tracing how water is commodified and controlled by the Public Enterprises of Medellín, one of the most successful public water utility companies in the Global South. Why are water inequalities dramatically increasing in Medellín, a city that is located in an area of bountiful water resources and owns a successful, established water utility company? This book explains this paradoxical situation by weaving together two central threads. The first is a critical historical analysis of the political, economic and ecological conditions that enabled the city's utility company to grow and expand internationally, and the second is a rich account of the everyday practices and struggles of residents in low-income areas to secure access to water and demand citizenship rights. The Public Enterprises of Medellín is a case of global significance as the company continues to expand their commercial operations in the Latin American services market by taking over the utilities in Panama, El Salvador and Guatemala, Mexico and Chile. Although its successful international expansion has been a source of pride and admiration for many Colombians, the implementation of market-oriented operating principles in all activities of the utility company raises important and complex questions about its public character and responsibility in the provision of basic services, which has much wider implications given how it is poised to be a model for other for-profit municipal service operations in other Latin American countries. This book advances the empirical knowledge of corporatized utilities, with a globally significant case, as well as providing new theoretical insights with which to understand the limits, challenges and opportunities faced by public utility companies to provide affordable and equal access to water in cities. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of water resource management, corporatization, privatisation and commodification of natural resources, urban studies, citizenship and human rights, environmental sociology and Latin American studies"--

Right to water.

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Right to water. --- Water --- Management.

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La ressource en eau est souvent comparée au pétrole dont la pénurie conduirait à une « crise de l'eau » imminente, permanente, locale et globale. De ce constat alarmiste aux guerres de l'eau prédites par certains, il n'y a qu'un pas. Pourtant, la place de l'eau dans les conflits est débattue. Si elle les aggrave, elle en est rarement la cause première, et peut même être un bon terrain de coopération lorsque l'on veut faire la paix. Plus qu'une « crise de l'eau » liée à une pénurie naturelle, la géopolitique de l'eau est gouvernée par des politiques de l'eau déficientes, et par la difficulté à garantir la sécurité hydrique, le tout aggravé par le réchauffement climatique. Mais des solutions pour une « nouvelle culture de l'eau » existent, encore faut-il réussir à les mettre en place.Au travers de cette analyse précise, David Blanchon détaille les trois grands défis pour la gestion de l'eau au XXIe siècle : préserver l'écosystème, fournir à tous une eau potable et procurer suffisamment d'eau pour l'agriculture. Car sa place centrale dans la satisfaction de besoins humains fondamentaux fait de l'eau, au même titre que le climat, un enjeu global.

Right to water. --- Water security.

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"Big Data Analytics and Its Impact on Basin Water Agreements and International Water Law represents the state of the art when it comes to the use of disruptive technologies in the transboundary water context and its impact on international water law. Indeed, the case study provided in this manuscript which represents the most relevant example where big data is being used in the transboundary water context highlights this reality. The readers will understand current and also future potential impact of big data on water resources in the general context of disruptive technologies"--

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

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The right to clean water has been adopted by the United Nations as a basic human right. Yet how such universal calls for a right to water are understood, negotiated, experienced and struggled over remain key challenges. The Right to Water elucidates how universal calls for rights articulate with local historical geographical contexts, governance, politics and social struggles, thereby highlighting the challenges and the possibilities that exist. Bringing together a unique range of academics, policy-makers and activists, the book analyzes how struggles for the right to water have attempted to translate moral arguments over access to safe water into workable claims. This book is an intervention at a crucial moment into the shape and future direction of struggles for the right to water in a range of political, geographic and socio-economics contexts, seeking to be pro-active in defining what this struggle could mean and how it might be taken forward in a far broader transformative politics. The Right to Water engages with a range of approaches that focus on philosophical, legal and governance perspectives before seeking to apply these more abstract arguments to an array of concrete struggles and case studies. In so doing, the book builds on empirical examples from Africa, Asia, Oceania, Latin America, the Middle East, North America and the European Union.

Right to water --- Droit à l'eau --- Right to water. --- Droit à l'eau