Hydrological Poverty and Access to Water as Challenges to Human Rights Protection in the European Blue Deal
- Institution: Uniwersytet Wrocławski
- ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2747-2625
- Year of publication: 2024
- Source: Show
- Pages: 331–342
- DOI Address: https://doi.org/10.15804/ppk.2024.05.24
- PDF: ppk/81/ppk8124.pdf
In the legal sciences, the issue of water availability as a new human right has been gaining at importance in recent years. In the European Union, work is currently underway to enact the equivalent of the European Green Deal – i.e. the European Blue Deal, which will be dedicated exclusively to water issues. The purpose of this article is to analyze how the emerging comprehensive EU water strategy takes into account the legal and human dimensions of problems related to access to water and water poverty, and whether it provides for effective instruments to protect the right to water in the European Union. The work previously attempted to systematize the concepts of water security, then pointed to the most important legal acts constituting the so-called right to water and defining its elements. Subsequently, selected provisions of the EBD exposing the legal-human dimension of access to water, were presented.