Magister Economicae - MEcon / In this thesis, I explore the allocation and use of water for productive and domestic purposes in the village of Siyandhani in the Klein Letaba sub-area, and how the allocation and use is being affected by new water resource management and water services provision legislation and policies in the context of water reform. This problem is worth studying because access to water for domestic and productive purposes is a critical dimension of poverty alleviation.The study focuses in particular on the extent to which policy objectives of greater equity in resource allocation and poverty alleviation are being achieved at local level with the following specific objectives: to establish water resources availability in Letaba/Shingwedzi sub-region, specifically surface and groundwater and examine water uses by different sectors (e.g. agriculture, industry, domestic, forestry etc.,); to explore the dynamics of existing formal and informal institutions for water resources management and water services provision and the relationship between and among them; to investigate the practice of allocation and use of domestic water; to investigate the practice of allocation and use of irrigation water.The study concludes that there is a problem of water scarcity in the study area and that the water scarcity is caused by the growth in the population, specifically in the Giyani area; these problems are exacerbated by financial and institutional obstacles within local institutions of governance. The water scarcity is not, therefore, natural but anthropogenic in nature.The water scarcity is not felt by all sectors, however: some farmers have access to water for irrigation, while many others face great challenges in their farming activities.Overall, people in Siyandhani and surrounding villages surrounding villages in the Letaba Catchment do not have access to water because of human action, hence the use of the concept of manufactured scarcity. The lack of access to water, it is argued,leads to the violation of the human right to water. This study concludes that water reform, which is widely seen as a priority for South Africa, has not yet reached the villages of the Klein Letaba.

Die vorliegende Arbeit versucht einen Begriff der Versorgungsgerechtigkeit im Kontext der Trinkwasserversorgung zu konturieren, der auf Nachhaltigkeit hin programmiert ist. Das bedeutet im Sinne des Drei-Säulen-Modells der Nachhaltigkeit, dass beim Verfolg dieses sozialen Zieles, sogleich die ökologischen und ökonomischen Bedingungen mit-gedacht werden sollen. Zugrunde liegt die Annahme, dass so auch das soziale Ziel bes-ser erreicht werden kann. Grundkonzept ist vor diesem Hintergrund, einen Begriff der Versorgungsgerechtigkeit zu entwickeln, der das Spannungsfeld der aristotelischen Unterscheidung von iustitia distributiva und iustitia commutativa umgreift. Erstere richtet ihren Blick auf den ein-zelnen privaten Haushalt mit seinen Bedarfen und Möglichkeiten. Hier stellt sich für diese Arbeit besonders und in erster Linie die Frage, welche Bedingungen seiner Was-sernachfrage jeweils für den Haushalt zumutbar sind. Letztere sorgt hingegen für einen (Interessen-) Ausgleich zwischen dem jeweiligen Wasserkonsumenten und all jenen Teilen der Gesellschaft (inkl. ökologischer Umwelt), die von dieser Wassernutzung be-troffen sind (stakeholder). Sie schlägt den Bogen zu den ökologischen und ökonomischen Nachhaltigkeitsbelangen. Dieses Spannungsfeld wird übertragen auf den Begriff des „Zugangs“, der in der Recht-auf-Wasser-Debatte Grundlage für eine Debatte zur Umsetzung ist. Richtet man den Blick – auf „Zugang“ – auf die Zugangshürden (z. B. der Wasserpreis), dann wird deutlich, dass diese Hürden (potenziell) Nachhaltigkeitsfunktionen erfüllen (z. B. Refinanzierung von Dienstleistungen, Schutz aquatischer Ökosysteme). Das zentrale Ergebnis lautet: Versorgungsgerechtigkeit, mithin ein „angemessener Zugang“, ist gegeben, wenn die Zugangshürden, denen sich der Nutzer gegenübersieht (nachhaltigkeits-)funktional, zumutbar und außerdem nicht-diskriminierend sind. Im weiteren Verlauf der Arbeit wird u. a. das Verhältnis von Funktionalität und Zumut-barkeit definiert, werden Messkonzepte zur Zumutbarkeit (affordability) betrachtet und werden Ansatzpunkte einer Politik der Versorgungsgerechtigkeit diskutiert.:Kapitel 1: Einleitung Kapitel 2: Die Versorgung mit Wasserdienstleistungen als ökonomisches Allokationsproblem Kapitel 3: Versorgungsgerechtigkeit und Wasserpreis Kapitel 4: Versorgungsgerechtigkeit und Güterzugang: Zur Umsetzung eines Rechts auf Wasser Kapitel 5: Die Zumutbarkeit der pekuniären Hürde „Preis“: Zur Messung von affordability Kapitel 6: Instrumente der Versorgungsgerechtigkeit Kapitel 7: Zusammenfassung, Fazit und Ausblick

[pt] Utilizando-se do método qualitativo de pesquisa, busca-se analisar as políticas públicas de abastecimento de água e esgotamento sanitário da cidade de Manaus, a partir do ano 2000, quando estes sistemas públicos foram privatizados. Através da estratégia metodológica do Estudo de Caso objetiva-se descobrir por que e como tais políticas obtêm um desempenho insatisfatório, frustrando as expectativas previstas no processo de privatização. Mediante a análise de discurso, comtempla-se as informações adquiridas através da observação participante, de entrevistas e de registros documentais, trazendo à tona as contradições da concessão privada e os desafios da universalização dos serviços de água e esgoto na cidade. Ao longo da análise observa-se a interação entre diversos atores sociais, fazendo das políticas de saneamento uma arena de conflitos, onde residem interesses divergentes. O Estado, ao conceder à iniciativa privada a prestação dos serviços de água e esgoto, realiza importante papel na política pública em questão. Nesse sentido, destaca-se a condescendência do poder público com a inércia e a inadimplência das empresas, beneficiadas ao longo dos anos às custas do sofrimento da população, em especial daquelas que residem nas zonas norte e leste do município. As concessionárias, visando maximizar os seus lucros, não priorizam as necessidades da comunidade, mas realizam múltiplas práticas que trazem à luz o caráter espoliativo da concessão. Os atores da sociedade civil representam as iniciativas de resistência à mercantilização da água, lutando para que ela seja tomada como bem comum e direito social e pressionando, ainda que de forma fragmentada, para que todos os manauenses sejam reconhecidos como cidadãos, sendo-lhes garantido o essencial para a existência, independente da classe social a que pertencem. Perante esta conflitualidade, é necessário reconhecer a hegemonia das forças do capital, que avançam sobre os recursos naturais da Amazônia, promovendo a acumulação de riquezas nas mãos de reduzidos setores sociais e aprisionando expressivos segmentos populacionais em condições de privação e subcidadania. / [en] Using qualitative method of research, it is sought to analyze the public policies of water supply and the sewage treatment of the city of Manaus, from the year 2000, when these public systems were privatized. Through the methodological strategy of the Case Study one aims to discover why and how such policies get a dissatisfied performance, frustrating the expectations anticipated in the privatization process. Through discourse analysis, the information acquired through participant observation, interviews and documentary records is analyzed, bringing to light the contradictions of the private concession and the challenges of the universalization of water and sewage services in the city. Throughout the analysis we observe the interaction between several social actors, making sanitation policies an arena of conflicts, where divergent interests reside. The State, by granting private initiative the provision of water and sewage services, performs an important paper in the public policy in question. In this sense, we highlight the condescension of public power with inertia and lack of compliance of companies, benefited over the years at the expense of the suffering of the population, especially of those who live in the northern and eastern zones of the municipality. Concessionaires, in order to maximize their profits, do not prioritize the needs of the community, but carry out many practices that bring to light the exploitive character of the concession. The actors of the Civil society actors represent the initiatives of resistance to mercantilization of water, struggling for it to be taken as a common good and social right and pressing, even in a fragmented way, so that all the people from Manaus are recognized as citizens, being guaranteed the essential for their existence, regardless of the social class to which they belong. Facing this conflict, it is necessary to recognize the hegemony of the forces of capital that advance the natural resources of Amazonia, promoting the accumulation of wealth in the hands of small social sectors and arresting expressive population segments in conditions of deprivation and subcitizenship.

L’eau en tant que ressource naturelle en mouvement permanent est difficilement saisissable par le droit. La pénurie de cette ressource demeure un problème majeur dans certaines régions du sud de l’Europe et plus particulièrement en Espagne, en France et en Italie. Devant ce défi, une protection juridique renforcée s'impose par nécessité .Le droit est-il en mesure d’assurer à cette ressource une telle protection à travers un statut spécifique qui tienne compte de son caractère vital et rare? Ce travail s’inscrit principalement dans une perspective de droit comparé entre les systèmes juridiques français, italien et espagnol, étudiés à la lumière du droit de l’Union européenne ayant favorisé une standardisation de la protection de l’eau, même si elle demeure insuffisante. La domanialisation et la patrimonialisation de l’eau, ainsi que la reconnaissance progressive d’un droit à l’eau potable et à l’assainissement sont les solutions proposées par les droits publics étudiés. La question de l’effectivité et de l’efficacité de la protection publique de l’eau est au cœur de l’étude et invite à s’interroger sur les acteurs de la mise en œuvre de la protection de la ressource en eau ainsi que sur un partage des compétences souvent complexe. Dans cette perspective, le rôle du juge administratif et des juges des eaux publiques en matière d’application effective des normes protectrices de la ressource en eau est fondamental. Ainsi, la question de l’effectivité de la protection s’est imposée, car elle découle tant de son caractère préventif que du caractère répressif des sanctions appliquées en cas de dommages causés à la ressource en eau. / Water as a natural resource in constant motion is difficult to grasp by the law. The shortage of this resource remains a major problem in parts of southern Europe, particularly in Spain, France and Italy. Faced with this challenge, enhanced legal protection is necessary with force. Is the law able to guarantee this resource protection through a special status that respects its vital and rare character? The purpose of this piece of work is mainly to set a comparative law perspective between the French, Italian and Spanish legal systems, studied in the light of the law of the European Union which promoted a standardization of water protection, even if it remains insufficient. The public domain, the concept of heritage, and the gradual recognition of the right to drink water and sanitation are the solutions proposed by the legal systems studied. The question of the effectiveness and efficiency of public water protection is at the heart of the study. It raises questions about the actors in the implementation of the protection of water, as well as an often complex sharing of skills. In this perspective, the role of the administrative judge and judges of public waters in terms of effective enforcement of protective standards for water is fundamental. So the question of the effectiveness of protection raises central, because it follows both the preventive character and the repressive nature of the sanctions imposed in the case of damaging the water resources.

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No. of bitstreams: 1 romerobarreiro_mdp_me_soro.pdf: 2006461 bytes, checksum: 41716e7d2569515b6a3d7f22a1c9652f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-07-14 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) / A água é essencial para a vida, por essa razão a proteção tanto do recurso quanto do acesso ao mesmo tem sido incluída em vários dos cenários internacionais de meio ambiente, saúde, segurança alimentar e Direitos Humanos; conseguindo assim que a Organização das Nações Unidas [ONU], no ano 2010, reconhecesse o acesso à água potável como um Direito Humano. Essa inclusão significa que o Direito Humano à água agora é um bem jurídico de proteção supranacional, o qual reafirma a responsabilidade de cada país de garanti-lo a sua população. Para consolidar sua positivação e realizar esse Direito os governos estabelecem diferentes normas, ações, medidas e planos que tratam também fatos indispensáveis desse direito como a disponibilidade, o acesso e a qualidade dentro da Gestão Integrada dos Recursos Hídricos [GIRH] a fim de fortalecer sua segurança hídrica. No entanto, a garantia do acesso à água potável para toda a população enfrenta inúmeros desafios, e a América Latina não é a exceção. Brasil e Colômbia, os dois países com a maior oferta hídrica na região, não têm conseguido garantir o acesso ao recurso para toda sua população. Assim, o objetivo deste documento é compreender e estudar o Direito Humano à água e sua positivação nos casos do Brasil e da Colômbia. A metodologia consistiu, numa primeira fase, na indagação e estudo do Direito Humano à água e seu desenvolvimento no Direito Internacional. Em uma segunda fase se realizou uma análise comparativa usando uma matriz e aplicando o modelo dedutivo, o qual permitiu determinar as convergências e divergências entre os dois contextos para cada tópico escolhido, em cada marco legal. Nesse viés foram avaliadas: a Constituição Política do Brasil de 1988, a Constituição Política da Colômbia de 1991, uma jurisprudência de cada país onde tenha existido algum pronunciamento sobre o direito ao acesso à água, as Políticas Nacionais de Recursos Hídricos dos dois países e os tratados internacionais de meio ambiente e de Direitos Humanos, os quais tratam esse Direito de maneira explícita e implícita. A análise realizada na matriz comparativa permitiu compreender e estudar como varia a positivação do Direito à água nos dois ordenamentos jurídicos, identificando se tem sido inserido de maneira explícita ou não nessas normas; igualmente evidenciou-se que a terminologia e intenções legislativas com relação ao acesso à água em cada país partilham algumas características, mas são diferentes. Finalmente, na primeira aproximação à efetivação desse Direito Humano no Brasil e na Colômbia, observou-se que apesar da tutela direta e indireta que tem no nível nacional e internacional e aos esforços políticos e institucionais de ambos países, ainda existem milhares de pessoas sem abastecimento de água por parte do Estado. / Water is essential for life. Therefore, the protection of the resource and access has been included in several international scenarios of environment, health, food security and Human Rights, getting in 2010 that access to drinking water were recognized as a Human Right by The United Nations [ONU]. This inclusion means that the Human right to water is now a legal right with supranational protection, which reaffirms the responsibility of each country to guarantee it to its population. In order to achieve this right, governments establish different norms, actions, measures and plans that also deal with essential facts of this right such as availability, access and quality by Integrated Water Resources Management [IWRM], in order to strengthen their water security. However, access to drinking water for the entire population faces many challenges, and Latin America is no an exception. Brazil and Colombia, two countries with the largest water supply in the region have not guaranteed that access to the resource for their entire population. The objective of this paper is to understand and study the Human Right to water and its realization in the case of Brazil and Colombia. The methodology consisted first, in the investigation and study of the Human Right to water and its development in the International Law. In a second time was made a comparative analysis, which was performed using a matrix in a deductive model. It allowed to determine the convergences and divergences between the two contexts for each item chosen in each legal framework which were: the Political Constitution of Brazil 1988, the Political Constitution of Colombia 1991, a case-law of each country where there has been some pronouncement on the right to access to water, the National Policy of Water Resources of the two countries and the International Treaties on Environment and Human Rights to include that right explicitly and implicitly. The analysis made in the comparative matrix made it possible to understand and study how the positivization of the Right to Water varies in the two legal systems, identifying t is explicitly or not in these norms; it was also shown that the terminology and legislative intentions regarding access to water in each country share some characteristics, but they are different. Finally, in a first approach to the realization of this Human Right in each country, it was observed that despite the direct and indirect tutelage that it has at National and International Law and the political and institutional efforts of both countries, there are still thousands of people without water supply by the State. / El agua es esencial para la vida, por lo tanto, la protección tanto del recurso como del acceso al mismo se ha incluido en varios escenarios internacionales de medio ambiente, de salud, de seguridad alimentaria y de Derechos Humanos, consiguiendo que la Organización de Naciones Unidas [ONU] en el año 2010 reconociera el acceso al agua potable como un Derecho Humano. Esta inclusión significa que el derecho humano al agua es ahora un bien jurídico de protección supranacional, lo que reafirma la responsabilidad de cada país para garantizarlo a su población. Para positivar y realizar este derecho, los gobiernos establecen diferentes normas, acciones, medidas y planes que también se ocupan de hechos esenciales de este derecho como la disponibilidad, el acceso y la calidad dentro de la Gestión Integrada de Recursos Hídricos [GIRH], con el fin de reforzar su seguridad hídrica. Sin embargo, la garantía del acceso al agua potable para toda la población enfrenta muchos desafíos, y América Latina no es una excepción. Brasil y Colombia los dos países con el mayor oferta hídrica en la región no han garantizado el acceso al recurso para toda su población. Así, el objetivo de este trabajo es comprender y estudiar el Derecho Humano al agua y su positivación en el caso de Brasil y Colombia. La metodología consistió en una primera fase, en la indagación y estudio del Derecho Humano al agua y su desarrollo en el Derecho Internacional. En una segunda fase, se realizó un análisis comparativo utilizando una matriz por medio del modelo deductivo, lo que permitió determinar las convergencias y divergencias entre los dos contextos para cada ítem escogido en cada marco legal. En ese sentido se evaluaron: la Constitución Política de Brasil de 1988, la Constitución Política de Colombia de 1991, una jurisprudencia de cada país donde haya existido pronunciamiento sobre el derecho al acceso al agua, las Políticas Nacionales de Recursos Hídricos de los dos países y los tratados internacionales sobre medio ambiente y Derechos Humanos para incluyen ese derecho de forma explícita e implícita. El análisis realizado en la matriz comparativa permitió comprender y estudiar cómo varía la positivación del Derecho al Agua en los dos ordenamientos jurídicos, identificando si éste es abordado de manera explícita o no en estas normas; igualmente se evidenció que la terminología e intenciones legislativas con relación al acceso al agua en cada país comparten algunas características, pero son diferentes. Finalmente, en un primer acercamiento a la realización de ese Derecho Humano en cada país, se observó que pese a la tutela directa e indirecta que éste tiene a nivel nacional e internacional y a los esfuerzos políticos e institucionales de ambos países, existen todavía miles de personas sin abastecimiento de agua por parte del Estado. / CNPq: 190775/2014-9

Status and Role of New Human Rights in International Law This diploma thesis compares three methods which have been used so far in the creation of new human rights in international law. The first chapter establishes the theory of the creation of new human rights in international law. It is claimed that all new human rights have been created by one of the following three methods: the adoption of an international treaty; the interpretation of an internetional treaty; or the adoption of a declaration. The second chapter provides definitions of a notion of human rights and determines a notion of new human rights as those rights which are not expressed in the International Bill of Human Rights. The distinction of human rights by generations is rejected. The third chapter summarizes the sources of international human rights law, which are international treaties, international custom and general principles of international law. Further, the third chapter shows the significance of peremptory norms and soft law instruments for international human rights. The fourth chapter deals with the first method of creating new human rights, i.e. adoption of international treaty. This method is presented through the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the right to live in community. The formulation...

LLM / Department of Public Law / Historically, there were enormous differences and inequalities with regard to service delivery in South Africa. Traceable to the apartheid period, these inequalities included, inter alia, supply of inadequate and safe drinking water for black communities in particular those at rural areas. Yet, water is an essential necessity for human beings, regardless of race, disability and social status. As a legislative measure to redress the injustices of the apartheid regime, the right to have access to sufficient water is entrenched in Section 27(1) (b) of the South African Constitution of 1996. Also, several legal instruments such as the National Water Act of 1998 and the Water Service Act of 1997 were enacted to uphold the human right to water. The Constitution bestowed the responsibility of water supply and management to the national, provincial and the local government. Despite its inadequacy, the South African government is addressing the water needs of the most impoverished communities by guaranteeing each household a free minimum quantity of potable water of 25 litres per person per day or 6 kiloliters per household per month. Any person who needs more will come under privatisation model which key provisions on the existing law favors. About 38.4% of the population of South Africa who reside in rural communities are poor and mostly affected by inadequate water service delivery in that they cannot afford payment for water in excess of the minimum for which no fees is charged. As a concept, affirmative action is generally used in the context of work places to ensure that qualified marginalized groups have equal opportunities to get a job, but it is not yet investigated in the context of water service delivery. This study assessed laws governing water service delivery and explored how affirmative action can be used as an instrument to ensure the delivery of potable water to rural population in South Africa.