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Rights to water: strengthening the claims of poor people to improved access

22 March 2005 13:00-14:15 (GMT+00) - Public event, London

  • If the number of people without access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation is to be reduced by half in the next decade, current sentiments have to be converted into concerted action. At present the pace of change is not nearly sufficient to meet the challenge. In this context, how is discourse on human and other 'rights' to water (e.g. contractual and property rights) being converted into principles and rules which give voice to poor people and strengthen their claims for improved access to water resources and water services?

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    Speakers:
    Lyla Mehta, Research Fellow - IDS
    Bruce Lankford, Senior Lecturer, Natural Resources - University of East Anglia
    Chair:
    Peter Newborne, Research Associate, Water Policy Programme - ODI

     

  • An ODI public event in the Human Rights and Poverty Reduction - Realities, Controversies and Strategies series.

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