Water Rights in Southeast Asia and India

Water Rights in Southeast Asia and India examines in fascinating detail and description the foremost human rights issue of the twenty-first century: clean drinking water. Dynamic and vital water issues are explored in nine countries: Burma/Myanmar, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. Around 800 million people today have no clean water source. This number will soar to over two billion by 2050 because of pollution, surging population in the developing world, and climate change, which will accelerate drought, flooding, and disease. The global community has a historic and epic task to establish innovative and sustainable practices at both the international and village level to safeguard the precious human right to water for billions of citizens.

Ross Michael Pink is Lecturer in Political Science and International Relations at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Canada, and co-founder of Global Water Rights (www.globalwaterrights.com), an organization that promotes education and development projects on clean water. He has published in the Harvard University Health and Human Rights Journal and delivered lectures at a number of prestigious organizations and conferences.