The Current Legal Status of the Right to Water

  • Pierre Thielbörger
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Abstract

The starting point of this legal analysis is the legal order which is the most proximate and maybe the most developed one: the European legal framework. Beginning with examples of the status of the right to water in three selected Member States of the European Union (EU), the study then turns to the legal protection offered to the right to water on the European level itself, namely by the EU (European Law in a narrow sense) and in the context of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR) and the European Social Charter (ESC) (European Law in a broader sense).

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European Union United Nations Water Service Safe Drinking Water Special Rapporteur 
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  • Pierre Thielbörger
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  1. 1.Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed ConflictRuhr-Universität BochumBochumGermany

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