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Author Bos, Robert

Title Manual on the Human Rights to Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation for Practitioners
Published Ashland : IWA Publishing, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (120 pages)
Contents Cover; Copyright; Contents; About the author and contributing authors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Foreword; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Main operational principles; 2.1 Incorporating human rights criteria and principles into water and sanitation operations; 2.2 Creating an enabling environment; 2.3 Incorporating the HRWS into institutional frameworks; 2.4 The HRWS in essential functions of service providers and regulators; Chapter 3: Translating the human rights to water and sanitation into operational terms; 3.1 Definitions
3.2 The normative human rights criteria: drinking water3.2.1 Availability; 3.2.2 Water quality and safety; 3.2.3 Acceptability; 3.2.4 Accessibility; 3.2.5 Affordability; 3.3 The normative human rights criteria: sanitation; 3.3.1 Availability; 3.3.2 Quality; 3.3.3 Acceptability; 3.3.4 Accessibility; 3.3.5 Affordability; 3.4 Human rights principles; 3.4.1 Equality and non-discrimination; 3.4.2 Accountability; 3.4.3 Sustainability; 3.4.4 Participatory processes; 3.4.5 Access to information and transparency; 3.5 Basic considerations for operationalising the rights; 3.5.1 Population make-up
3.5.2 Organising effective interactions between rights-holders, operators and authorities3.5.3 Practical aspects of rights and responsibilities; 3.5.4 Monitoring progress; Chapter 4: An enabling environment for the human rights to water and sanitation; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Fundamental steps; 4.3 Analysis and reform of existing legislation; 4.4 Institutional arrangements; 4.5 Service delivery; 4.6 Regulation; Chapter 5: Incorporating the human rights to water and sanitation into the operational and institutional framework of service providers and regulators; 5.1 Introduction
5.2 Service provision models5.3 Categories of institutional arrangements; 5.4 The Regulatory Framework; Chapter 6: The human rights to water and sanitation in the essential functions of service providers and regulators; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Planning and management; 6.3 Legal support; 6.4 Budget, finance and accounts; 6.5 Operation and maintenance; 6.6 Monitoring and evaluation; 6.7 Customer services; 6.8 Communications; 6.9 Human resources; 6.10 In conclusion; Chapter 7: Addressing sensitive practices, dealing with challenges and avoiding pitfalls; 7.1 Technical options
7.2 Affordability mechanisms7.3 Cut-offs, credit control and debt collection; 7.4 Simultaneous progressive realisation against various criteria; 7.5 Setting geographic and investment priorities; 7.6 Land tenure; 7.7 Pre-paid meters; 7.8 Interim standards; 7.9 Continuity of supply; Annex A: Context and contents of the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation; A.1 The scale of the global drinking water and sanitation challenges; A.2 What is the human rights framework?; A.3 A brief overview of events leading to the adoption of the UN resolutions in 2010
Summary "The Manual highlights the human rights principles and criteria in relation to drinking water and sanitation. It explains the international legal obligations in terms of operational policies and practice that will support the progressive realisation of universal access. The Manual introduces a human rights perspective that will add value to informed decision making in the daily routine of operators, managers and regulators. It also encourages its readership to engage actively in national dialogues where the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation are translated into national and local policies, laws and regulations. Creating such an enabling environment is, in fact, only the first step in the process towards progressive realisation. Allocation of roles and responsibilities is the next step, in an updated institutional and operational set up that helps apply a human rights lens to the process of reviewing and revising the essential functions of operators, service providers and regulators."
Analysis legislation
sanitation
decision making
human rights
drinking water
Notes A.4 Progressive realisation and its implications
English
Print version record
Subject Right to water.
Drinking water.
Human rights.
drinking water.
Environmental science, engineering and technology.
Industrial applications of scientific research and technological innovation.
Mathematics and science.
Sanitary and municipal engineering.
Science: general issues.
Technology, engineering, agriculture.
Water supply and treatment.
LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Drinking water
Human rights
Right to water
Industrial applications of scientific research & technological innovation.
Environmental science, engineering & technology.
Drought & water supply.
Water supply & treatment.
Environment and Ecology.
Form Electronic book
Author Alves, David
Latorre, Carolina
McCleod, Neil
ISBN 9781780407449
1780407440