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Water justice and Europe’s Right2Water movement

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  • Jerry van den Berge
  • Jeroen Vos
  • Rutgerd Boelens

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In 2013 the European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) ‘Right2Water’ collected 1.9 million signatures across Europe against water privatization. It became the first ever successful ECI and has built a Europe-wide movement. Right2Water sought for Europe’s legal enforcement of the Human Right to Water and Sanitation (HRWS) as a strategic political tool to challenge European Union market policies. The paper examines the ECI from a social movement perspective. Although the European Commission subscribed that ‘water is a public good, not a commodity’, its implementation is subject to continuing politics and socio-political struggle, with growing urgency in times of the Covid-19 pandemic crisis.

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  • Jerry van den Berge & Jeroen Vos & Rutgerd Boelens, 2022. "Water justice and Europe’s Right2Water movement," International Journal of Water Resources Development, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 38(1), pages 173-191, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cijwxx:v:38:y:2022:i:1:p:173-191
    DOI: 10.1080/07900627.2021.1898347
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    1. Valero, Diana & Cook, Jess & Lee, Angus & Browne, Alison L. & Ellis, Rowan & Pancholi, Vidya Sagar & Hoolohan, Claire, 2023. "Addressing water poverty under climate crisis: implications for social policy," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 120704, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.

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