Do I really read in Alain's first text: . "in sub-Saharan Africa where most of the poor don’t have access to land and hence have no water rights" ?? So entirely ignoring both customary land rights AND customary water rights - in the name of the poorest and most vulnerable across the South?? On the 'difference' between 'water rights' and 'the right to water', the issue is how they intersect. For that, I refer to the HLPE report on 'Water for Food Security and Nutrition'. This unravels how the 2002 General Comment on the Human Right to Water by the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights also concerns productive water uses (right to food, non-discrimination, adequate standard of living, etc) and, hence, water rights regimes.
Do I really read in Alain's first text: . "in sub-Saharan Africa where most of the poor don’t have access to land and hence have no water rights" ?? So entirely ignoring both customary land rights AND customary water rights - in the name of the poorest and most vulnerable across the South?? On the 'difference' between 'water rights' and 'the right to water', the issue is how they intersect. For that, I refer to the HLPE report on 'Water for Food Security and Nutrition'. This unravels how the 2002 General Comment on the Human Right to Water by the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights also concerns productive water uses (right to food, non-discrimination, adequate standard of living, etc) and, hence, water rights regimes.