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The UN’s Human Right to Water in the Context of New Water Governance Regimes in South Africa and Tanzania

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This chapter examines the rise of the human right to water treaty and situates the latter in the field of human rights. In addition, and with empirical analysis from South Africa and briefly from Tanzania, the chapter demonstrates the role of the state in both countries in the emergence of new water governance regimes in the era neoliberal economic reforms. Further, the chapter examines the extent to which the South African and Tanzanian states can fulfill its obligations to the human right to water, especially to the poor in urban and rural geographies.

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Sahle, E.N., Galvin, M., Pierce, B., Todd, K. (2019). The UN’s Human Right to Water in the Context of New Water Governance Regimes in South Africa and Tanzania. In: Sahle, E. (eds) Human Rights in Africa. Contemporary African Political Economy. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-51915-3_10

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