Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : The Right to Water in Context / Malcolm Langford and Anna F.S. Russell -- Water Allocation, Customary Practice and the Right to Water : Rethinking the Regulatory Model / Barbara van Koppen -- Indigenous Peoples and the Sale of Water Rights : The Case of Chile / Domingo A. Lovera Parmo -- Water for Producing Food for Basic Consumption : Guaranteed by the Right to Water or Food? / Inga T. Winkler -- Tapping Transboundary Waters : Implications of the Right to Water for States Sharing International Watercourses / Anna F.S. Russell and Stephen McCaffrey -- Climate Change and the Right to Water / Mac Darrow -- Determining Progress on Access to Water and Sanitation : The Case of South Africa / Jackie Dugard, Malcolm Langford and Edward Anderson -- Quantifying the Affordability Standard : A Comparative Approach / Henri Smets -- Engendering the Right to Water and Sanitation : Integrating the Lived Experiences of Women and Girls / Anne Hellum -- The Human Right to Sanitation / Malcolm Langford, Jamie Bartram and Virginia Roaf -- Development Cooperation and Extraterritorial Obligations / Ashfaq Khalfan -- Palestine : Challenges to Progressive Realisation in the Occupied Territory / Lara El Jazairi -- Privatisation and the Right to Water / Malcolm Langford -- Piped Water in Jakarta : A Political, Economic or Social Good? / Nicola Colbran -- Privatisation and Regulatory Autonomy : The Right to Water in International Economic Law / Andrew Lang -- Bilateral Investment Treaties and Investment Arbitration / Luke Eric Peterson -- A Poor Choice? : Public Policy, Social Choice and the Human Right to Water / Robert A. Hope -- Socio-Cultural Norms, Human Rights and Access to Water and Sanitation / Nandita Singh -- The Right to Water and Political Ecology : Zimbabwe's Water Reforms / Bill Derman and Emmanuel Manzungu -- Right to Water in Rural India and Drinking Water Policy Reforms / Philippe Cullet.