Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Maude Barlow -- 1. The right to water: possibilities and prospects / Farhana Sultana and Alex Loftus -- 2. Commons versus commodities: debating the human right to water / Karen Bakker -- 3. The human right to what?: water, rights, humans, and the relation of things / Jamie Linton -- 4. A right to water?: geographico-legal perspectives / Chad Staddon, Thomas Appleby and Evadne Grant -- 5. The political economy of the right to water: reinvigorating the question of property / Kyle R. Mitchell -- 6. Scarce or insecure?: the right to water and the ethics of global water governance / Jeremy J. Schmidt -- 7. The right to water as the right to identity: legal struggles of indigenous peoples of Aotearoa New Zealand / Jacinta Ruru -- 8. Legal protection of the right to water in the European Union / Marleen van Rijswick and Andrea Keessen -- 9. Rights, citizenship and territory: water politics in the West Bank / Ilaria Giglioli -- 10. Water rights and wrongs : illegality and informal use in Mexico and the U.S. / Katharine Meehan -- 11. The centrality of community participation to the realization of the right to water: the illustrative case of South Africa / Cristy Clark -- 12. The right to the city and the eco-social commoning of water: discursive and political lessons from South Africa / Patrick Bond -- 13. Anti-privatization struggles and the right to water in India: engendering cultures of opposition / Krista Bywater -- 14. Seeing through the concept of water as a human right in Bolivia / Rocio Bustamante, Carlos Crespo and Anna Maria Walnycki -- 15. From Cochabamba to Colombia: travelling repertoires in Latin American water struggles / Ver�onica Perera.