Water security is a concept that has gained ascendance in policy circles and academic
scholarship, yet it remains loosely defined. Indeed, several review articles and edited …

International monitoring of drinking water and sanitation shapes awareness of countries'
needs and informs policy, implementation and research efforts to extend and improve …

As the assessment of the economic, environmental, institutional, and social sustainability of
wastewater treatment systems may have several conceivable goals and intended recipients …

The objective of this study is to develop a composite indicator (CI) to measure the quality of
water supply based on the variables that are considered to affect users' perceptions of water …

The development of a human right to water and sanitation under international law has
created an imperative to implement human rights in water and sanitation policy. Through …

Human rights treaty bodies, given an explicit state mandate to monitor human rights treaty
implementation, have become the principle mechanism of treaty monitoring to ensure …

ABSTRACT The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) harnessed the power of numbers
to focus the world's attention on some of the most pressing development challenges …

This review paper analyzes the legal and non‐legal literature on the human right to
sanitation (HRS). It shows that despite applying different paradigms in framing the HRS, both …

With the aim of contributing to the development of indicators for the evaluation and
monitoring of the realization of the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation (HRtWS) at a …

This chapter analyzes the role of human rights treaty bodies in monitoring, interpreting, and
adjudicating health-related human rights obligations, facilitating accountability for the …