On the line of Water Justice: Reflecting on the foundational pronouncements of the United Nations and the Indian Constitution

Abstract

In the past few years, the global community has realized that the unavailability and unaffordability of water cannot be a simple question of natural phenomenon. Since the absence of water is directly linked with the right to life, it is critical to comprehend what it means to assure communities and individuals the right to use water. The present paper, given this reality, attempts to define what the idea of water justice holds. For the same, the paper uses the United Nations declarations and the Indian constitution as its units of analysis. Here, the fundamental claim of the paper is that justice is ‘neutral’, by nature and activity and hence required to be documented most effectively. 

To explore the idea of water justice the paper analyzes the key documents of the United Nations (i.e., Comment 15 and Resolution 2010) and key provisions of the Indian constitution.  For the same, the paper uses content analysis and hermeneutics as a research tool.