Amy Hardberger's article analyzes the consequences for governments if the human right to water becomes an accepted norm of the international law. The article expands the traditional notion that a human right is enforceable by a citizen against her governme

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India - The unbearable lightness of big dams After repeated floods, will the government evaluate the performance of the big dams and embankments and decommission those that are non-functional, without making it a prestige issue? Dinesh Kumar Mishra Jamshed