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The right to clean water has been adopted by the United Nations as a basic human right. Yet how such universal calls for a right to water are understood, negoti

Water conflicts plague every river in the West, with the thorniest dilemmas found in the many basins with Indian reservations and reserved water rightsÑrights

A detailed study of the engagement of state law with indigenous rights to water in comparative legal and policy contexts.

In 2017 four rivers in Aotearoa New Zealand, India, and Colombia were given the status of legal persons, and there was a recent attempt to extend these rights t