The Human Right to Water

Nandita Singh is Docent in Water Resources Management and engaged in research and teaching in water and environmental management at the Department of Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden. She is the recipient of many fellowships, awards and distinctions, including the prestigious Wennergren Foundation fellowship for postdoctoral research at KTH. She was awarded the University Gold Medal for academic excellence in Masters and has the distinction of being placed in the famous 'Marquis Who's Who in the World, 2006' for her outstanding contribution in defining an alternate model on water resources management based on integration of local perspective in the global paradigm. She also holds a distinguished place among the 'Leading Scientists of the World' (2006) compiled by the International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England. She is an academician, author and activist in water sector with a long experience in research, education and advocacy in the areas of water policy, gender and water, human right to water, climate change and water, integrated water resources management, water quality management, participatory approach in water management, and traditional water management systems. She has authored several international publications and is the co-founder of Millennium Water Story (MWS), which is an information, education and communication initiative. She has conducted extensive research on water management and governance issues leading to several important policy recommendations. She has been instrumental in establishing and strengthening educational cooperation between Sweden and India through the Linnaeus-Palme Academic Exchange Program supported by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) and the Erasmus Mundus Program supported by the European Commission. She has been a visiting faculty at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore for eight years and at A. N. College, Magadh University, Patna under these programs. She has served as an expert in the water sector independently and as member in working groups in Sweden, India and also at many other places, including evaluation of the working of non-governmental organizations in the sector and of projects for research funding agencies. She is a regular reviewer of research articles for several international peer-reviewed journals and has also been an adviser on water issues to the private sector.

1. Introduction.- 2. Realizing the human right to water in local communities: An actor-oriented analysis.- 3. Monitoring and evaluation of rural water supply in Uganda: Implications for achieving the human right to water.- 4. Arsenic in Drinking Water: An Emerging Human Right Challenge in India.- 5. Climate Change and Human Right to Water: Problems and Prospects.- 6. Policy Paradoxes and Women's Right to Water in Mining Areas of Ghana.- 7. Human Right to Water in a Bottled Water Regime.- 8. Groundwater Management and the Human Right to Water in India: The need for a Decentralized Approach.- 9. Achieving Clean Water to all is a Question of Politics.- 10. Human Right to Water Obligations, Corporate Entities and Accountability Mechanisms.- 11. A Right-based Policy Framework for Governing Municipal Water Services.- 12. Human Right to Water in Trans-boundary Water Regimes.- 13. Translating the Human Right to Water into reality: Concluding Remarks. <