Online Articles on the Right to Water

This list provides links to online articles on the right to water. The list is not intended to be exhaustive, nor are the views contained within the articles necessarily endorsed by WaterAid, FAN or Rights and Humanity.

‘Water as a human right?’
The International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) Environmental Law Programme have published an Environmental Policy and Law Paper (No. 51) entitled "Water as a human right?" The paper provides a legal review of international conventions and agreements with regard to human rights and water, explores the possible content and scope of water as a human right and examines the duties of various parties. Water as a Human Right? by John Scanlon, Angela Cassar, and Nomi Nemes can be downloaded directly from the IUCN website.
Water as a Human Right? (PDF 400k)

‘Water: A Right for All! Privatisation of water and Sanitation Services in Africa’
Africa-Europe Faith And Justice Network/Reseau Foi Et Justice Afrique-Europe
http://www.aefjn.org/english/documents/water.doc

‘The Right to Water as a Human Right’, Alvarez, I., (1999) Attorney, Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Caracas, Venezuela. Available at: http://www.cedha.org.ar/docs/doc26.doc

‘A Human Right to Water’, Gleick, P. (1999). Water Policy 1 (5): 487-504: http://www.pacinst.org/human_right_to_water.pdf

‘Water as a human right?’ Scanlon, J.; Cassar, A. and Nemes, N. (2003).
Paper presented at the Law for a Green Planet Institute ‘Law, Water and the Web of Life’ 7th International Conference on Environmental Law, Sao Paulo, Brazil, June 2-5 2003. Gland, Switzerland, IUCN-ELC. - 41 p: 2 fig., 1 tab. - Includes references. Available at:
http://www.iucn.org/themes/law/pdfdocuments/WW-Rev 2 - 2nd June.pdf

‘Le Droit de Chacun a l’Eau’ (2000), available at: http://cartel.oieau.fr/a_propos/smets.pdf, ‘Le droit à l'eau potable’ (1999-2000), available at: http://www.oieau.fr/academie/travail/gege/DroitAlEau_02.PDF and ‘Implementing the Right to Drinking Water in OECD Countries’, Paper for a Working Party on Environmental Performance, Oecd Seminar On The Social And Environment Interface, 22-24 September 1999, Available at:
  http://www.tradeobservatory.org/Library/index.cfm?c_id=34&language=Eng all by Smets, H.

‘The Human Right to Water: A Plea for Changing Frames’, William J., Jr. (2002), Center for Energy and Environmental Policy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware USA. 
Lead manuscript of two back-to-back panel sessions organized by the author for the 2002 Association of American Geographers Annual meeting: "Establishing the theoretical underpinnings to a human right to water," and "Applying a Human Right to Water."
http://www.philippinefamily.net/mywebsitedownload.PDF.