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Journal: Water Policy
Water Policy (2020) 22 (1): 102–120.
Date Online: 23 January 2020
...Bárbarah Brenda Silva; Bárbara Sales; Ana Carolina Lanza; Léo Heller; Sonaly Rezende Abstract The Human Rights to Water and Sanitation (HRWS), adopted as UN Resolutions since 2010, contemplates key elements that seek to ensure equal and non-discriminatory access to water and sanitation, including...
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Journal: Water Policy
Water Policy (2018) 20 (2): 282–307.
Date Online: 05 January 2018
...Katharina Franziska Braig Abstract The human right to clean water and sanitation is currently under discussion in the European Union. During this discussion, it should not be forgotten that another European organisation, namely the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), is becoming increasingly...
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Journal: Journal of Water and Health
J Water Health (2012) 10 (4): 499–503.
Date Online: 12 September 2012
... built are not necessarily wholly hygienic. However, recent publications on CLTS document a number of examples of practices which fail to meet basic ethical criteria and infringe human rights. There is a general theme in the CLTS literature encouraging the use of ‘shame’ or ‘social stigma’ as a tool...
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Journal: Water Policy
Water Policy (2016) 18 (6): 1436–1453.
Date Online: 12 May 2016
...Jeremy Kohlitz; Joanne Chong; Juliet Willetts Government monitoring of water and sanitation services is a critical step in realising the human rights to water and sanitation (HRWS). In this study we investigated the national water and sanitation policies of 13 Pacific island countries (PICs...
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Journal: Water Science and Technology
Water Sci Technol (2001) 43 (4): 141–142.
Date Online: 01 February 2001
...Maud Barlow; Peter Söderbaum Thinking in terms of ethics and Human Rights raises issues of power and justice. It can be argued that there are indisputable human rights, e.g. when the construction of dams is considered, while 'commodification' of water and the 'market mentality' may suggest...
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Journal: Water Science and Technology
Water Sci Technol (2001) 43 (4): 143–150.
Date Online: 01 February 2001
...Marna De Lange This paper focuses on the experience of South Africa in introducing water legislation based on human rights principles (in particular the National Water Act of 1998) and reflects on some practical implications for the implementation of water management in a country with limited water...
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Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development (2015) 5 (2): 310–321.
Date Online: 11 February 2015
...Óscar Flores Baquero; Alejandro Jiménez; Agustí Pérez-Foguet International institutions have the authority to monitor States' compliance with the Human Right to Water and Sanitation (HRWS) but the necessary tools for this task are not yet ready. The human development sector has a wider experience...
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Journal: Water Policy
Water Policy (2014) 16 (S2): 36–58.
Date Online: 01 November 2014
... for perceived injustice related to distribution of hydrometeorological data. Consensus that water is a human right warrants the application of equity to water allocation. But is security from water-related disasters also a human right? As hydrometeorological data can be a powerful resource with potential...
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Journal: Water Policy
Water Policy (2013) 15 (6): 943–960.
Date Online: 18 July 2013
...Nandita Singh The human right to water and sanitation has been most commonly approached from the perspective of legal machinery and mechanisms for its implementation. Perhaps an underlying assumption among human rights practitioners is that once action for implementing the right is undertaken, its...
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Journal: Water Policy
Water Policy (2013) 15 (1): 116–133.
Date Online: 27 September 2012
...Benjamin Mason Meier; Georgia Lyn Kayser; Urooj Quezon Amjad; Jamie Bartram With water and sanitation vital to the public's health, there have been growing calls to accept water and sanitation as a human right and establish a rights-based framework for water policy. Through the development...
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Journal: Water Science and Technology
Water Sci Technol (2011) 63 (11): 2520–2526.
Date Online: 01 June 2011
... cost recovery and a water sharing system. The overall objective of this study was to assess the impact of cost recovery and the sharing system on water policy implementation and human rights to water in four villages in the Ileje district. The specific objectives were: (1) to assess the impact of cost...
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Journal of Water Supply: Research and Technology-Aqua (2006) 55 (1): 1.
Date Online: 01 February 2006
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Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development (2020) 10 (4): 996–1011.
Date Online: 11 November 2020
...Uma Dey Sarkar; Bikramaditya K. Choudhary Abstract International organizations firmly ratifying the human right to water though neoliberal reforms have pushed for increasing commodification and marketization of water. Accelerated urbanization in cities of the Global South have intensified problems...
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Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development (2018) 8 (4): 785–791.
Date Online: 03 July 2018
... health services is of critical importance for human rights and development outcomes. The Water Institute at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill and World Vision organized a side event at the 2017 UNC Water and Health conference to discuss obstacles and opportunities related to improving...
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Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development (2014) 4 (1): 182–187.
Date Online: 21 October 2013
...Urooj Quezon Amjad; Georgia Kayser; Benjamin Mason Meier The declaration of the Human Right to Water and Sanitation by the UN General Assembly in 2010 is a significant achievement. Successfully implementing, enforcing and monitoring this right in various countries, contexts and scales...
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Journal: Water Policy
Water Policy (2014) 16 (S2): 121–136.
Date Online: 01 November 2014
... a failure of governance and a structural injustice of global dimensions. Rights-based approaches to development have been proposed to address such problems. This paper explores the implications of framing the arsenic problem in terms of social justice and human rights. It describes the efforts...
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Journal: Water Policy
Water Policy (2014) 16 (4): 755–772.
Date Online: 22 February 2014
...Vicky Walters Improving access to water and sanitation for vulnerable groups has been a significant development priority in recent decades and this has been coupled with calls for water and sanitation to be recognised as fundamental human rights. However, to date there has been very limited...
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Journal: Water Supply
Water Supply (2012) 12 (6): 799–809.
Date Online: 01 October 2012
...H. M. Ravnborg; K. M. Jensen In 2010, the UN General Assembly declared the right to safe and clean drinking water and sanitation as a human right that is essential for the full enjoyment of life and all human rights. Yet, findings from the Competing for Water research programme suggest that all too...
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Journal: Water Policy
Water Policy (2014) 16 (S2): 78–96.
Date Online: 01 November 2014
... recently, climate change. Conflicts among uses and their underlying principles are increasingly adjudicated in courts, with the Ministério Público (Public Prosecutor's Office) acting as a key advocate for both human rights and environmental protection. As legal interventions become more common in policy...
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Journal: Water Policy
Water Policy (2011) 13 (2): 208–219.
Date Online: 22 December 2010
...Elsa van de Loo This article analyses the influence of privatization of water resources on access to the right to water in Kenya. It is premised on the belief that water is a fundamental human right and must not be seen as a social or economic good. Attention will be given to national-, regional...
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