La Protection over the access to drinking water within the international law framework
Keywords:
Right to water, Human Rights, International Law, Law of international watercoursesAbstract
In response to the present problems of water pollution and stress (which affect human health and life conditions), it is relevant to analyze how public international law tackles the issue of the access to drinking water in order to identify the legal basis for the protection of water demands for human consumption. In particular, the article deals with the main international treaties on human rights and water resources management, the non-binding documents ("soft law") relating to the access to drinking water, and the judicial decisions, especially the case law of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights. The purpose of this paper is to provide evidence for establishing the existence, in public international law, of a set of rules which protect the satisfaction of human water needs and in some cases recognize the access to drinking water as a human right as well.
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ÁLVAREZ, Ignacio J. (2003) "The Right to Water as a Human Right". En Piccolotti, Romina; Taillant, Daniel (coordinadores): Linking Human Rights and the Environment. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, pp. 71-82.
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ARCARI, Mauricio (1998) Il regime giuridico delle utilizzazioni dei corsi d'acqua internazionali. Principi generali e norme sostanziali. Padova: CEDAM, 484 pp.
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DINSTEIN, Yoram (1981) "The Right to Life, Physical Integrity, and Liberty". En Henkin, Louis et al. (coordinadores): The International Bill of Rights. New York: Columbia University Press, pp. 114-137.
FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION (1998) Sources of International Water Law. FAO Legislative Study N° 65. Disponible en http://www.fao.org/docrep/005/w9549e/w9549e07.htm#fnB133 [fecha de visita 5 de junio de 2014] .
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KAMMINGA, Menno T. (1995) "The Precautionary Approach in International Human Rights Law: How It can Benefit the Environment". En Freestone, David; Hey, Ellen (coordinadores): The Precautionary Principle and International Law: the Challenge of Implementation. The Hague: Kluwer Law International, pp. 171-207.
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McCAFFREY, Stephen C. (1992) "A Human Right to Water. Domestic and International Implications". Georgetown International Environmental Law Review, Vol. 5, pp. 1-25.
McCAFFREY, Stephen C. (1998) "The UN Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses: Prospects and Pitfalls". Disponible en http://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/env/water/cwc/legal/UNConvention_McCaffrey.pdf [fecha de visita 11 de junio de 2014] .
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McINTYRE, Owen (2007) Environmental Protection of International Watercourses under International Law. Burlington: Ashgate Publishing Company, 422 pp.
MURTHY, Sharmila L. (2013) "The Human Right(s) to Water and Sanitation: History, Meaning, and the Controversy Over-Privatization". Berkeley Journal of International Law, Vol. 31, N° 1, pp. 89-157.
NOGUEIRA ALCALÁ, Humberto (2012) "Diálogo interjurisdiccional, control de convencionalidad y jurisprudencia del Tribunal Constitucional en período 2006 - 2011". Estudios constitucionales: Revista del Centro de Estudios Constitucionales. Año 10, N° 2, pp. 57-140.
OLSON, Erik (2003) What's on the tap? Grading Drinking Water in U.S. Cities. 212 pp. Disponible en: http://www.nrdc.org/water/drinking/uscities/pdf/whatsontap.pdf [fecha de visita 21 de febrero de 2013] .
PAVONI, Riccardo (2013) Interesse pubblico e diritti individuali nella giurisprudenza ambientale della corte europea dei diritti umani. Napoli: Editoriale Scientifica, 204 pp.
ROBERTS, Anthea E. (2001) "Traditional and Modern Approaches to Customary International Law: A Reconciliation". American Journal of International Law. Vol. 95, pp. 757-791.
SALMAN, M.A. Salman; McINERNEY-LANKFORD, Siobhán (2004) The Human Right to Water. Legal and Policy Dimensions. Washington, DC: Law, Justice, and Development Series, The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank, 198 pp. Disponible en http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2004/10/18/000090341_20041018135134/Rendered/PDF/302290PAPER0Human0right0to0H20.pdf [Fecha de visita: 11 de junio de 2014] .
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TAKELE SOBOKA BULTO (2011) "The human right to water in the Corpus and Jurisprudence of the African human rights system". African Human Rights Law Journal. Vol. 11, N° 2, pp. 341-357.
TANZI, Attila (2001) "Regional Integration and the Protection of the Environment: the UN/ECE Process on water Law as a Model for the Global Dimension". En Scovazzi, Tullio (coordinador): The protection of the environment in a context of regional economic integration: the case of the European Community, the MERCOSUR, and the NAFTA. Milano: Giuffré, pp. 345-393.
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TANZI, Attila; ARCARI, Maurizio (2001) The United Nations Convention on the Law of International Watercourses A Framework for Sharing. The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 358 pp.
THIELBÖRGER, Pierre (2014) The Right(s) to Water. The Multi-Level Governance of a Unique Human Right. Heidelberg: Springer, 236 pp.
UNITED NATIONS ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR EUROPE (2013) The Equitable Access Score-card: Supporting policy processes to achieve the human right to water and sanitation. U.N. Doc. ECE/MP.WH/8. 60 pp. Disponible en http://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/env/water/publications/PWH_equitable_access/1324456_ECE_MP_WP_8_Web_Interactif_ENG.pdf [fecha de visita. 14 de abril de 2014] .
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S FUND (2013) Progress on Sanitation and Drinking-Water, 2013 Update. 40 pp. Disponible en: http://www.wssinfo.org/fileadmin/user_upload/resources/JMPreport2013.pdf. [fecha de visita 23 de junio de 2014] .
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S FUND (2012) Progress on Sanitation and Drinking-Water, 2012 Update. 66 pp. Disponible en: http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2012/9789280646320_eng_full_text.pdf?ua=1 [fecha de visita: 14 de febrero de 2013] .
WOUTERS, Patricia (2011) "The International Law of Watercourses: New Dimensions". En Xiamen Academy of International Law (coordinador): Collected Courses of the Xiamen Academy of International Law. The Netherlands: Brill Academic, pp. 347-541.
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Bertazzo, S. (2016). La Protection over the access to drinking water within the international law framework. Revista De Derecho (Coquimbo. En línea), 22(2), 55-92. Retrieved from https://revistaderecho.ucn.cl/index.php/revista-derecho/article/view/1809
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