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Water as a Human Right for the Middle East and North Africa (Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia)

By Cecilia Tortajada , Eglal Rached , Asit K Biswas

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2008
ISBN
0415461359, 9780415461351
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10718987 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
208\202
Topic
Economy
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Access to safe drinking water and proper sanitation is essential for human survival and for maintenance of a decent quality of life. Currently, more than a billion people do not have access to safe drinking water and more than two billion people lack proper sanitation. In 1992, the United Nations proclaimed that water should be considered to be a human right. This position, however, has not been accepted by many developed and developing countries. This book systematically and comprehensively analyzes the legal development of the concept of water as a human right; implications for the national governments, and international and national organizations for the implementation of this concept; progress made in different Middle East and North African countries to provide every individual access to clean water and sanitation, constraints faced to assure universal access to water-related services and how these constraints can be overcome, and an overall research agenda in areas where more knowledge is necessary.

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