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The human right to water presents a powerful defense of international responsibility for the 1.2 billion people living with physical water scarcity. But the basis for, and practical value of, this right is less clear than its rhetorical force. Michael Tiboris argues that the human right to water requires a more robust justification than it has been given if it is to play the role it is supposed to play in improving the lives of the global (water) poor.

Michael Tiboris is Global Water Fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and Public Fellow for the American Council of Learned Societies. His research concerns justice and water resource distribution, including urban water quality crises, distributional fairness, water conflict, and transboundary resource governance.

This is part of the Buffett Institute Human Rights Speaker Series.