Because of the importance of the desirability of universal access to clean water, and differences of opinions on the recent developments that water is a human right, the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), through its Cairo Office, decided to explore the main issues associated with this area in depth, including the formulation of a priority research agenda. [...] Accordingly, by the late 1960s, because of the continued indiscriminate discharges of the inadequately treated wastewater, the water quality of the rivers, lakes and the coastal areas had declined steadily. [...] To the extent the discussions on water as a human right are kept alive, this is probably because of the professionals working in the human rights area (in contrast to the water professionals) and activist NGOs who are against water pricing and private sector involvement in terms of universal access to water supply and sanitation. [...] The concern of some of the countries that are not in favour of promulgating the concept that water is a human right stem from the fact that they are unsure of the legal implications if they approve the overall philosophy. [...] The Situation in the MENA Region The water profession and the vast majority of the governments in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have for the most part not paid much attention to the UN declaration that water is a human right, especially in terms of what it means, and what are the implementation requirements to extend universal water and sanitation coverage.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 341.483
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
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- ISBN
- 9780415461351 9781552503805
- LCCN
- HD1698.M53
- LCCN Item number
- W382 2008eb
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- 1 electronic text (ix, 191 p.)
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- Canada
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- (CaBNVSL)slc00221703 (OCoLC)311865978 (CaOOCEL)423016
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Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Foreword 8
- 1 Water as a Human Right in the MENA Region: Challenges and Opportunities 12
- 2 Human Rights to Water in North Africa and the Middle East: What is New and What is Not; What is Important and What is Not 30
- 3 Right to Water: The Millennium Development Goals and Water in the MENA Region 46
- 4 The Right to Water 70
- 5 Water as a Human Right: The Palestinian Occupied Territories as an Example 88
- 6 Water as a Human Right: The Understanding of Water Rights in Palestine 106
- 7 Water as a Human Right: Towards Civil Society Globalization 132
- 8 Actualizing the Right to Water: An Egyptian Perspective for an Action Plan 144
- 9 Accountability and Rights in Right-based Approaches for Local Water Governance 158
- 10 Towards a Human Rights Approach to Water in Lebanon: Implementation beyond ‘Reform’ 172
- Index 194
- A 194
- B 194
- C 194
- D 195
- E 195
- F 195
- G 196
- H 196
- I 196
- J 197
- K 197
- L 197
- M 198
- N 198
- O 199
- P 199
- Q 199
- R 199
- S 200
- T 200
- U 200
- V 201
- W 201
- Y 202
- Z 202
