Links and Resources Page
The Right to Water
This website was launched by WaterAid and Rights and Humanity to mark the International Year of Freshwater 2003. It aims to explain theories of human rights law with respect to the right to water, and to promote the use of the right to water as a tool for community empowerment, advocacy and legal redress.
www.righttowater.org.uk
Water governance bibliography
We have prepared an EndNote library of water governance-related references and sources. Please contact us if you need more information.
splash.bradford.ac.uk
Parliamentary Water and Sanitation Inquiry
This site reports on the Inquiry. It includes the evidence submitted by Tom Franks and Frances Cleaver and the transcript of the session
www.parliament.uk
Water Management in Agriculture Assessment
The Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture critically evaluates the benefits, costs, and impacts of the past 50 years of water development, the water management challenges communities are facing today, and solutions people have developed.
www.iwmi.cgiar.org
World Water Council
WWC promotes awareness, builds political commitment and triggers action on critical water issues, with the aim of encouraging the environmentally sustainable management and use of water.
www.worldwatercouncil.org
BCID
Bradford Centre for International Development is one of the UK’s leading centres for development studies. Thematic research includes livelihoods, water and poverty.
www.brad.ac.uk
UN Habitat
The UN Human Settlements Programme, UN-HABITAT, promotes socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities with the goal of providing adequate shelter for all.
www.unhabitat.org
Gender and Water Alliance
The mission of GWA is to promote women’s and men’s equitable access to and management of safe and adequate water, for domestic supply, sanitation, food security and environmental sustainability.
www.genderandwateralliance.org
Africa Water Laws Workshop
African Water Laws: Plural Legislative Frameworks for Rural Water Management in Africa was staged in Johannesburg in January 2005. Eleven recommendations arising, outlined on this site.
www.nri.org
Wageningen Agricultural University (Water Research Group)
The Irrigation and Water Engineering Group at Wageningen University and Research Centre plays a major role in international research on irrigation and water management, in the context of rural transformation.
www.iwe.wur.nl
World Wildlife Fund International Freshwater Programme
Addresses freshwater problems, including issues of thirsty crops, infrastructure, water losses, healthy rivers/rivers at risk, the economic value of wetlands, and whether or not to dam.
www.panda.org
Overseas Development Institute
Britain’s leading independent think-tank on international development issues. Its Water Policy Programme (www.odi.org.uk/wpp) aims to improve poverty reduction and social development through better water sector policy, programmes and projects.
www.odi.org.uk
