McCaffreyStephen C, ‘A Human Right to Water: Domestic and International Implications’ (1992) 5Georgetown International Environmental Law Review1; GleickPeter H, ‘The Human Right to Water’ (1999) 1(5) Water Policy487; SmetsHenri, ‘The Right to Water as a Human Right’ (2000) 30(5) Environmental Policy and Law248.
2.
DennisMichael JStewartDavid P, ‘Justiciability of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights: Should there be an International Complaints Mechanism to Adjudicate the Rights to Food, Water, Housing, and Health?’ (2004) 98(3) American Journal of International Law492; TullyStephen, ‘A Human Right to Access Water? A Critique of General Comment No 15’ (2005) 23(1) Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights35; TullyStephen, ‘Flighty Purposes and Deeds: A Rejoinder to Malcolm Langford’ (2006) 24(3) Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights461.
3.
Similar sentiments were expressed on adoption of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, GA Resolution A/RES/47/1 of 13 September 2007. See, eg, CoulterRobert T, ‘The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: A Historic Change in International Law’ (2009) 45(3) Idaho Law Review539, 546; ChartersClaire, ‘The Road to the Adoption of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples’ (2007) 4New Zealand Yearbook of International Law121, 123.
4.
GA Res 34/180 of 18 December 1979, in force 3 September 1981.
5.
GA Res 44/25 of 20 November 1989, in force 2 September 1990.
6.
GA Res A/RES/61/106 of
7.
December 2006, in force 3 May 2008.
8.
Convention (III) re Treatment of Prisoners of War, adopted 12 August 1949, in force 21 October 1950; Convention (IV) re Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, adopted 12 August 1949, in force 21 October 1950; Protocol re Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I), adopted 8 June 1977, in force 7 December 1978; Protocol re Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts (Protocol II), adopted 8 June 1977, in force 7 December 1978.
9.
Gleick, above n 1, 491.
10.
Ibid.
11.
OttoDianneWisemanDavid, ‘In Search of “Effective Remedies”: Applying the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights to Australia’ (2001) 7(1) Australian Journal of Human Rights5, 9.
12.
SalmanSalman M AMcInerney-LankfordSiobhán, The Human Right to Water: Legal and Policy Dimensions (2004) 55–64.
13.
See, eg, Preamble, Mar Del Plata Action Plan of the UN Water Conference; para 18.47 of Agenda 21, Report of the UN Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro, 3–14 June 1992 (A/CONF.151/26/Rev.1 (Vol I and Vol I/Corr.1, Vol II, Vol III and Vol III/Corr.1); Principle No 3; Dublin Statement on Water and Sustainable Development, International Conference on Water and the Environment (A/CONF.151/PC/112); Principle No 2, Programme of Action, Report of the International Conference on Population and Development, 1995 (UN Doc A/CONF.171/13/Rev.1) ch I, resolution 1, annex; and Recommendation (2001) 14 of the Committee of Ministers to Member States on the European Charter on Water Resources, paras 5 and 19.
14.
See GleickPeter H, ‘Basic Water Requirements for Human Activities: Meeting Basic Needs’ (1996) 21Water International83; HowardGuyBartramJamie, ‘Domestic Water Quantity, Service Level and Health’, WHO Doc WHO/SDE/WSH/03.02 (2003).
The citation in General Comment 15 to the WHO Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality refers to the 2nd edition, published in 1993.
31.
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, General Comment 3 on the Nature of States Parties Obligations, 14 December 1990, [9].
32.
Ibid.
33.
UN Doc A/HRC/RES/12/8 (2009).
34.
UN Doc A/Res/55/2 (2001), [19]; see also Millennium Development Goals, Target 7c, Goal 7: Ensure Environmental Sustainability, <undp.org/mdg/goal7.shtml> at 8 March 2011.
35.
UN Doc GA/10967 (2010).
36.
SammisJohn F, ‘Explanation of Vote by John F Sammis, US Deputy Representative to the Economic and Social Council, on Resolution A/64/L.63/Rev.1, the Human Right to Water’ (Statement delivered at the UN General Assembly, New York, 28 July 2010).
