Water remains the essential need of humanity. This need has transformed itself into one of the essential human rights in India. The article labels the elementary concept and content of the human right to water and its implications for development policy on water delivery, as well as some current initiatives towards the implementation of the rights approach in development and national water politics. It also abridges the serious steps in the development of "water as a human right" and various measures and policies for the implementation of the right to water. Thus, the conservation and restoration of the reserve needs to be governed in a way so that the laws and policies dealing with the resource are coherent and sustainable. Therefore, this paper contends that the governance of the resource and the rights-based approach for its realization are complementary to one another. It will emphasize the judicial interpretation of right to water in India and will attempt to project the common links between the governance of the resource and the realization of the right by strengthening the commonalities observed in their evolutionary path and the manner in which they understand the resource.
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Volume - 6 (2020)
Water as a Human Right
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Published 2020-12-30
Pages 80-89
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Water
Human Rights
Factors affecting Water Resources
Water and Education
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