Considering the human right to water from an environmental justice perspective

What is it about?

This article discusses the discourses around the human right to water, and the growing importance of this right in environmental justice agendas. There is a need to constructively engage in debates about what the HRW means, and how it should be realized. Responding to critics of the concept, we see considerable promise in the aspirational value of the HRW, in addition to other potential discursive and conceptual possibilities the term opens up. In particular, by highlighting access and governance, key equity and justice considerations are highlighted. The HRW has also created new legal bases for redress, as well as broader responses to neoliberalization trends (inviting openings related to 'alternatives' for water for all and water justice.

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