The Right to Water – An Interdisciplinary Analysis
The Right to Water – An Interdisciplinary Analysis

Author(s): Elena Emilia Ştefan
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Udruženje ekonomista i menadžera Balkana
Keywords: Water; Public authorities; Public interest; Rule of law; Legality
Summary/Abstract: Nowadays, mankind is faced with situations that lead public authorities to take decisions to protect the population, ensuring its right to water, but they must observe the legality and the rule of law, so as to achieve the necessary balance between the public interest and the interest of private individuals. Increasingly frequent extreme events around the globe are disrupting nature and affecting water and life on Earth: drought, vegetation fires, over-irrigation, floods, pollution or even war. The author estimates that the issue of water scarcity will be high on the agenda of all the world’s governments and that solutions must be found at the international level to ensure drinking water for the population while limiting water wastage, measures that will urgently lead to the conservation of existing water resources. To avoid restricting daily water consumption, people need to behave more responsibly with water and value it. The objective of the paper is to analyze water from an interdisciplinary perspective, seen as a human right in international acts and to study the doctrine and applicable legislation in order to learn more about the regulation of the right to water. In this background, the theme is topical and has general practical applicability, of interest to everyone, people and authorities, in any geographical area of the Earth, because water has no nationality, and is consumed daily by everyone.

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