Inequities and limitations in access to safe and affordable water and to the decision-making processes that guide water management and distribution affect communities around the world and across the US and, with the added impacts of climate change, present a growing problem of environmental...

There is no single natural resource on which the world depends more than freshwater. Unfortunately, climate change, depletion of resources, population growth, unequal distribution, and inefficient use all mean that freshwater is rapidly becoming a scarce resource, aptly named the “Blue...

International Water Law has developed a set of rules for resolving interstate fresh water disputes that govern both the substance of these disputes and the conduct of the disputing states. “Equitable and reasonable utilization” is commonly considered as the leading substantive rule, “no...

This chapter explores the relationship between water and the social pillar of sustainable development as embodied in the notions of water justice and the human right to water. In light of the unique social, environmental, and economic significance of water and its indispensability to human...

Predictions that interstate fresh water disputes will increase in the future have led to a vast body of research on tools and techniques to manage shared freshwater resources so as to prevent such disputes from arising, however relatively little attention has been paid to the need for effective...

This article analyzes the restrictive approach adopted by investor-State arbitration tribunals to human rights arguments raised by host States, as exemplified in the case of the human right to water, and examines the potential implications of this approach for the international human rights...