Human Right to Water and Bottled Water Consumption: Governing at the Intersection of Water Justice, Rights and Ethics (new chapter)

Something I used to do and for some reason stopped doing was to write on my blog about my recent publications. I am hoping to re-start this practice with all my current and forthcoming publications. This recently published book chapter (though with a publication date of 2020), “Human Right to Water and Bottled Water Consumption: Governing at the Intersection of Water Justice, Rights and Ethics”, is included in the new version of the acclaimed edited volume that Dr. Farhana Sultana and Dr. Alex Loftus produced in 2012. The 2020 new volume on the human right to water charts new debates regarding the global commitment to end water scarcity and facilitate access to the vital liquid. The new book, Water Politics: Governance, Justice and the Right to Water. I wrote a thread describing my main findings and summarizing the chapter, which I reproduce below. This chapter is one of a series of outputs I am generating on my research on the politics of bottled water.

In this chapter, I make a nuanced argument for the right circumstances when bottled water consumption (and production) is justified. While I touch on “ethical bottled water”, this topic is the focus of jointly authored work with @christyzen which will be published later.

— Dr Raul Pacheco-Vega (@raulpacheco) October 4, 2019

This chapter gives the ethics of BW a good overview beyond trite arguments for or against. The answer: “it really depends”.

Related work you might like: https://t.co/dXnsR7TrP9 my journal article wherein I argue that we need to retheorize the politics of bottled water.

— Dr Raul Pacheco-Vega (@raulpacheco) October 4, 2019

I’m a chemical engineer with a Masters of Business Administration, a Masters in economics of technical change, & a double PhD in human geography and political science. This is why I really try to look at public policy issues from a multidisciplinary perspective. I do believe my work speaks for itself in this regard. I am hoping folks teaching water politics and environmental public policy will find this chapter useful. The citation can be found below:

Pacheco-Vega, R. (2020). Human right to water and bottled water consumption: Governing at the intersection of water justice, rights, and ethics. In F. Sultana & A. J. Loftus (Eds.), Water Politics: Governance, Rights, and Justice (pp. 113–128). London: Routledge.

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