Reporte elaborado por Oswaldo
Ruiz-Chiriboga.
Jimena Murillo Chavarro, investigadora de la Universidad de Gante (Bélgica),
publicó el libro “The
Human Right to Water. A Legal Comparative Perspective at the International,
Regional and Domestic Level” (Intersentia, 2015, 382 p.), en el que, entre
otros temas, analiza los estándares del Sistema Interamericano. Esta es la presentación de la obra:
“This
book summarises the history of the human right to water and examines its main
content and the obligations that derive from this right. The main purpose of
the recognition of the human right to water is to guarantee to everyone access
to sufficient, safe and affordable drinking water to satisfy personal and
domestic uses. This book discusses whether the human right to water is
recognised as a derivative right or as an independent right at three levels –
at universal, regional and domestic – where human rights are recognised and
enforced. At the domestic level a case study approach has been used with focus
on Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Colombia. Freshwater resources are not static;
they are constantly flowing and crossing international boundaries. This
situation and the relative scarcity of water resources have a direct impact on
a state’s capacity to realise the human right to water. The human right to
water is examined in a transboundary water context, where the use and
management of an international watercourse in one riparian state can directly
or indirectly affect the human right to water in another riparian state. For
this reason, this book analyses whether the core principles of international
water law can be used to contribute to the realisation of the extraterritorial
application of the right to water.”
La tabla de contenidos del libro se la puede obtener aquí.
