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This paper provides a decadal review of earth system governance (ESG) literature surrounding access and allocation to water, sanitation and hygiene. ‘access and allocation’ is one of five analytical problems, and ‘water’ a cross-cutting theme, identified in the ESG science and implementation plan (Biermann et al. 2010). A focused review of ESG and related literature reveals that the ESG literature is very robust in relation to access to water, sanitation and hygiene as a human right. However, the ESG literature lacks a robust, independent consideration of the right to hygiene or sanitation or its linkage and costs vis-à-vis other rights. There is no criteria for resolving competing demands on finite freshwater resources, as well as procedures for balancing rights. It is unclear how a transformed nuanced narrative of water access and allocation rights will address vulnerability and social inequality within this new balancing act.

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Notes

  1. To date, only 36 parties have signed (United Nations Treaty Collection: status as at 28-03-202 of Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses).

  2. This could be remedied by accessing the grey literature. For instance, the literature published by International organizations such as the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe and World Health Organization (2019) the United Nations (de Albuquerque and Roaf 2012) contains a wealth of information surrounding access to water and the human rights to water and sanitation that does not yet inform the ESG literature. The World Health Organization has also many informative publications including a guide to water, sanitation and hygiene in Health Care facilities (2019) that provide tangible applied examples of achieving human rights to water and sanitation and hygiene which is in underrepresented in the ESG literature.

Abbreviations

ESG:

Earth system governance

SDGs:

Sustainable development goals

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Hurlbert, M. Access and allocation: rights to water, sanitation and hygiene. Int Environ Agreements 20, 339–358 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10784-020-09484-6

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