REALIZING RIGHT TO WATER AND SANI - The Case of India

This book analyses the right to water and sanitation at both the international level and national levels. At a national level the book examines the law in India relating to both recognition and realisation of the rights. The book considers the complex legal framework in place at the union and state level for the realisation of the rights.

List of contents

1. Water, Sanitation and Human rights - Conceptual Dimensions 2. International Legal Framework Concerning the Right to Water and Sanitation 3. Legal Context for the Realisation of the Right in India 4. Realisation of the Right in Rural Areas in the Context of Evolving Policy Reforms 5. Realisation of the Right in Urban Areas - Higher Amenities and Private Sector Participation 6. National, International and Transnational Aspects of the Realisation of the Right 7. Towards Social Equity and Environmental Sustainability in Implementing the Right

About the author

Philippe Cullet is Professor of International and Environmental Law and Director of theLaw, Environment and Development Centre at the University of London, School of Oriental & African Studies, UK.

Summary

This book analyses the right to water and sanitation at both the international level and national levels. At a national level the book examines the law in India relating to both recognition and realisation of the rights. The book considers the complex legal framework in place at the union and state level for the realisation of the rights.

Additional text

Richard Joyce’s Competing Sovereignties (CS) is a monograph whose argumentative eloquence and intellectual provocation has absolutely emerged as one of the foremost among the last generation of works on modern states sovereignty. - Elia R.G. Pusterla, London School of Economics and Political Science for Swiss Political Science Review (Vol 20, No.1, 2014)

Product details

• Authors: Philippe Cullet, Philippe (School of Oriental and African S Cullet, Philippe (School of Oriental and African Studies Cullet, Cullet Philippe
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.01.2026
• EAN: 9780415532723
• ISBN: 978-0-415-53272-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Mercantile and commercial law; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, LAW / General, LAW / International, LAW / Environmental, LAW / Natural Resources, LAW / Health, social and political philosophy, Public International Law, Regional / International studies, Human rights, civil rights, Development Studies, Environment law, Regional Geography, Jurisprudence and general issues, Public Health & Safety Law, Energy & natural resources law