As concerns about access to water have grown, so have new understandings of how to legally address the issue. Some claim that access to water is a human right, while others have opened a debate about whether it is a human right or just a (...)
“Water,” goes the bromide, “is the new oil.” The apparent equivalence of the two resources--both are relatively scarce--masks a curious misunderstanding of their relationship. The analogy ignores structural inequalities. For now, after all, the “old (...)
Water poverty and oil wealth are locked into a peculiar relationship in which the abundance of one resource can make up for profligacy with the other. But the assumption on which this relationship is based is ill founded. At some point the oil, or (...)
