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1. Introduction

Author : Imtiaz Ahmed

Published in: Rights, Rivers and the Quest for Water Commons: The Case of Bangladesh

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Abstract

The United Nations General Assembly in its resolution on 28 July 2010 “explicitly recognized the human right to water and sanitation and acknowledged that clean drinking water and sanitation are essential to the realisation of all human rights.”

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Footnotes
1
UN Water, International Decade for Action ‘Water for Life’ 2005–2015, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, https://​www.​un.​org/​waterforlifedeca​de/​human_​right_​to_​water.​shtml; (17 May 2020). See also, James Salzman, Drinking Water (New York: Overlook Duckworth, 2012), p. 48.
 
2
Ibid., p. 50.
 
3
Anne Feldhaus, Connected Places: Region, Pilgrimage, and Geographical Imagination in India (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), pp. 19–20.
 
4
Ibid., p. 21.
 
5
For a closer exposition, see, https://​www.​etymonline.​com/​word/​river. Accessed on 19 March 2021.
 
6
Ibid.
 
7
Cited from https://​en.​wikipedia.​org/​wiki/​Nadi_​(yoga). Accessed on 4 November 2017.
 
8
Philip Ball, The Water Kingdom: A Secret History of China (London: Vintage, 2016), p. 18.
 
9
Franscesca De Chatel, “Drops of Faith: Water in Islam,” 21 April 2016. See, https://​aboutislam.​net/​shariah/​shariah-and-humanity/​shariah-and-life/​drops-faith-water-islam/​. Accessed on 19 March 2021.
 
10
Ibid.
 
11
It is precisely for this reason that both Hanafi and Shafi mazhabs (school of thought) permitted ‘drinking wine due to thirst.’ Abu Hanifa also permitted drinking wine for medicine but ash-Shafi did not. Other mazhabs, however, are silent on this issue. See, Al-Qadi As-Safadi, The Mercy in the Difference of the Four Sunni Schools of Islamic Law (London: Dar Al-Taqwa, 2004), p. 99.
 
12
Cited in A.H. Qasmi, International Encyclopedia of Islam (Delhi: Isha Books, 2006), p. 160.
 
13
Garrett Hardin, “The Tragedy of the Commons,” Science, Vol. 162, no. 3859, American Association for the Advancement of Science, p. 1244.
 
14
Pranab Bardhan and Isha Ray, Eds. The Contested Commons: Conversations between Economists and Anthropologists (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2008), p. 4.
 
15
Ibid., p. 1245.
 
16
Ibid.
 
Literature
As-Safadi, Al-Qadi, The Mercy in the Difference of the Four Sunni Schools of Islamic Law (London: Dar Al-Taqwa, 2004).
Ball, Philip, The Water Kingdom: A Secret History of China (London: Vintage, 2016).
Bardhan, Pranab and Isha Ray, eds. The Contested Commons: Conversations between Economists and Anthropologists (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2008).
Feldhaus, Anne, Connected Places: Region, Pilgrimage, and Geographical Imagination in India (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003).
Metadata
Title
Introduction
Author
Imtiaz Ahmed
Copyright Year
2021
Book
Rights, Rivers and the Quest for Water Commons: The Case of Bangladesh

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-69433-3

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-69434-0

Copyright Year: 2021

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69434-0_1