Water as a Human Right

Books:

Goldstein, J. (1990). Demanding clean food and water: The fight for a basic human right. New York: Plenum Press.

Hemson, D. (2008). Poverty and water: Explorations of the reciprocal relationship. London ; New York: Zed Books.

McDonald, B., & Jehl, D. (2003). Whose water is it?: The unquenchable thirst of a water-hungry world. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society.

Salman, S. M. A., & McInerney-Lankford, S. A.,. (2004). The human right to water: Legal and policy dimensions. Washington, D.C.: World Bank.

Scanlon, J., Cassar, A., & Nemes, N. (2004). Water as a human right?. Cambridge: IUCN Publications.

Whiteley, J. M., Ingram, H., & Perry, R. (Eds.) (2008). Water, place and equity. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Articles:

Access to water is 'a right'. (2006). National Catholic Reporter, 42(23), 4.

Bakker, K. (2007). The "Commons" versus the "Commodity": Alter-globalization, anti-privatization and the human right to water in the Global South. Antipode, 39(3), 430-455.

Bluemel, E. B. (2004). The implications of formulating a human right to water. Ecology Law Quarterly, 31(4), 957-1006.

Cahill, A. (2005). 'The human right to water - a right of unique status': The legal status and normative content of the right to water. International Journal of Human Rights, 9(3), 389-410.

Clarke, K. (2007). Troubled waters. U.S. Catholic, 72(2), 38.

Clean water is a right.(2006). Economist, 381(8503), 67-68.

Dilworth, R. (2007). Privatization, the world water crisis, and the social contract. PS: Political Science & Politics, 40(1), 49-54.

Donovan, G. (2003). Water access is a human right, Vatican document says. National Catholic Reporter, 39(24), 9.

Filmer-Wilson, E. (2005). The human rights-based approach to development: The right to water. Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, 23(2), 213-241.

Hammer, L. (2003). Indigenous peoples as a catalyst for applying the human right to water. International Journal on Minority and Group Rights, 10(2), 131-161.

Hardberger, A. (2006). Whose job is it anyway?: Governmental obligations created by the human right to water. Texas International Law Journal, 41(3), 533-568.

Irujo, A. E. (2007). The right to water. International Journal of Water Resources Development, 23(2), 267-283.

Jayyousi, O. A. (2007). Water as a human right: Towards civil society globalization. International Journal of Water Resources Development, 23(2), 329-339.

Kennedy, S. M. J. (2006). Pure water is the fundamental right of all. Journal of Dharma, 31(4), 485-496.

Kiefer, T., & Brölmann, C. (2005). Beyond state sovereignty: The human right to water. Non-State Actors & International Law, 5(3), 183-208.

Klawitter, S., & Qazzaz, H. (2005). Water as a human right: The understanding of water in the Arab countries of the Middle East. International Journal of Water Resources Development, 21(2), 253-271.

Langford, M. (2005). The United Nations concept of water as a human right: A new paradigm for old problems?. International Journal of Water Resources Development, 21(2), 273-282.

Naidoo, A., Davidson-Harden, A., & Harden, A. (2007). The geopolitics of the water justice movement. Peace, Conflict and Development, no.11, (11)

Pamukcu, K. (2005). The right to water: An assessment. Contemporary Politics, 11(2-3), 157-167.

Parmar, P. (2008). Revisiting the human right to water. The Australian Feminist Law Journal., 28, 77-ff.

Razzaque, J. (2004). Trading water: The human factor. Review of European Community & International Environmental Law, 13(1), 15-26.

Smets, H. (2000). The right to water as a human right. Environmental Policy & Law, 30(5), 248-250.

Tortajada, C. (2005). Editorial. International Journal of Water Resources Development, 21(2), 225-227.

Tully, S. (2005). A human right to access water? A critique of general comment no. 15. Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, 23(1), 35-63.

Varis, O. (2007). Right to water: The Millennium Development Goals and water in the MENA region. International Journal of Water Resources Development, 23(2), 243-266.

Watts, J. (2003). Forum debates private sector role in global water supply. Lancet, 361(9362), 1022-1023.

Watts, J. (2003). Water water everywhere, but not a drop to report. Lancet, 361(9365), 1274-1275.

What price for the priceless?: Implementing the justiciability of the right to water. (2007). Harvard Law Review, 120(4), 1067-1088.

Web Sites:

Blue gold: The fight to stop the corporate theft of the world's water. Retrieved November 18, 2008, from http://www.cceia.org/resources/transcripts/830.html

Center for Economic and Social Rights. Right to water fact sheet #2: Why a human right to water? Retrieved November 18, 2008, from http://cesr.org/node/view/448

Center on Housing Rights and Evictions. Right to water. Retrieved November 18, 2008, from http://www.cohre.org/water

The contested terrain of water development and human rights. Retrieved November 18, 2008, from http://www.cceia.org/resources/transcripts/94.html

Full text of the United Nations Committee for Economic, Social & Cultural Rights general comment 15, "the right to water". Retrieved November 18, 2008, from http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/gencomm/escgencom15.htm