Stemming the Tide: Human Rights and Water Policy in a Neoliberal World

This book explores how the human right to water and sanitation is fulfilled in different contexts, whether neoliberal policies like privatization pose a threat to the right to water, and whether rights fulfillment leads to meaningful social change. Using two case studies ? Chile, the most extreme case of water privatization in the developing world, and Bolivia, the birthplace of the global movement for the human right to water ? this book uncovers the conditions under which the right to water and sanitation can be fulfilled, as well as the obstacles to fulfilment.