Water, Inequality and Rights

In 2010 the United Nations declared the right to water and sanitation as a Human Right. This was part of an effort to secure everyone access to sufficient water for basic consumption in a situation where water is increasingly scarce and commercialized and poor people need losing out in the competition. To what extent this had effects on the ground. A LawTransform project on Elevating water rights to human rights: has it strengthened poor people’s claim for water has researched this and will present some findings.

Roundtable chaired by

Malcolm Langford


(UiO) and


Bruce Wilson

(University of Central Florida) with

Daniel M. Brinks


(UT Austin),


Camila Gianella

(CMI), Rebecca Shiel
(UCF), Arkaja Singh
(Centre for Policy Research, Delhi) and

Inga Winkler

(Columbia University)

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