IWRA World Water Congress 2011 Pernambuco Brazil
3. Governance and water law (co-convened by IWRA and AIDA)
Author(s): Liber Martin Garcia
Mauricio Pinto
Liber Martin Garcia,Mauricio Pinto, UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CUYO, , libermartin@hotmail.com
Keyword(s): Right to water and sanitation,human righths - UN resolution 2010,human righths - UN resolution 2010
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This paper explores the key points of water as a human right (HRW) from the Latin American point of view. This is because the HRW is a universal right, the problems with its articaulation, content and implementation vary according to legal and political context. Among other legal premises, the paper states that HRW has been recognized by law first as a common use of water, then as a public service and finally as a human right. Nowadays, all these different conceptions are part of a complex regulation that must be interated to current concrete water lasw institutions. The paper discusses, existing rights, water allocations, limits, suspension for unpaid dringking water services, etc. Furthermore, the paper analyze critically, the international legal discourse on human rights, the recent UN General Assembly resolution (2010) and highlights that HRW is not only a legal matter or a water availability issue but an economic problem and therfore a problem of poor countries or regions.
Keywords: right of water and sanitation, human rights, UN resolution 2010