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Water: A Public Good or a Commodity?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Itzchak E. Kornfeld
Itzchak E. Kornfeld*
Affiliation:
Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The author can be reached at kornfeld.itzchak@mail.-huji.ac.il
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The Emergence of a Human Right to Water and Sanitation: The Many Challenges
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 106 , 2012 , pp. 49 - 52
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2012

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6 The Institutes of Justinian (J.B. Moyle trans., 5th ed. 1913).

7 ‘United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) issued a General Comment to the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), which found a right to water implicit in Articles 11 and 12. See generally General Comment No. 15 (2002): The Right to Water (Arts. 11 and 12 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights), UN Doc. E/C. 12/2002/11 (Jan. 20, 2003).

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9 Abu Musad v. Water Commissioner, No. 9535/06 (2011).

10 Id. para. 30.

11 Id.

12 Id. para. 27.

13 Id. para. 29.