Human Right to Water : Contemporary challenges and contours of a global debate

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Human Right to Water : Contemporary challenges and contours of a global debate Mirosa, Oriol; Harris, Leila

Abstract

In recent years, significant debate has taken place around the concept of the “human right to water”. In this paper, we seek to respond to recent critiques and clarify the terms of the debate by presenting an in-depth exploration of the human right to water. We explore several critiques of the concept, situate it in the context of the current neoliberalization of water provision and in relation to contemporary water challenges, and present some examples of how it has been deployed to further the cause of access to water for vulnerable populations in varied contexts. We conclude that, rather than abandoning the concept as critics have suggested, the human right to water maintains importance as a discourse and strategy in the contemporary moment.

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Title	Human Right to Water : Contemporary challenges and contours of a global debate
Creator	Mirosa, Oriol; Harris, Leila
Contributor	EDGES (University of British Columbia)
Date Issued	2011
Description	In recent years, significant debate has taken place around the concept of the “human right to water”. In this paper, we seek to respond to recent critiques and clarify the terms of the debate by presenting an in-depth exploration of the human right to water. We explore several critiques of the concept, situate it in the context of the current neoliberalization of water provision and in relation to contemporary water challenges, and present some examples of how it has been deployed to further the cause of access to water for vulnerable populations in varied contexts. We conclude that, rather than abandoning the concept as critics have suggested, the human right to water maintains importance as a discourse and strategy in the contemporary moment.
Subject	Human rights; Water; Social movements; Privatization
Genre	Article; Postprint
Type	Text
Language	eng
Date Available	2018-01-02
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI	10.14288/1.0362443
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/64210
Affiliation	Science, Faculty of; Non UBC; Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES), Institute for
Citation	O. Mirosa and L. Harris (2012). Human Right to Water: Contemporary Challenges and Contours of a Global Debate, Antipode, 44 (3): 932-949
Publisher DOI	10.1111/j.1467-8330.2011.00929.x
Peer Review Status	Reviewed
Scholarly Level	Faculty
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Aggregated Source Repository	DSpace

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