Contents: Introduction / Nandita Singh -- Realizing the human right to water in local communities : an actor-oriented analysis / Nandita Singh -- Monitoring and evaluation of rural water supply in Uganda : implications for achieving the human right to water / Andrew Quin, Berit Balfors, and Marianne Kjellén -- Arsenic in drinking water : an emerging human right challenge in India / Arun Kumar, Ashok Ghosh, and Nandita Singh -- Climate change and human right to water : problems and prospects / Nandita Singh -- Policy paradoxes and women's right to water in mining areas of Ghana / Nandita Singh, Berit Balfors, and John E. Koku -- Human right to water in a bottled water regime / Ravi Shankar Shukla and Nandita Singh -- Groundwater management and the human right to water in India : the need for a decentralised approach / Mahesh Menon -- Achieving clean water to all is a question of politics / Jan-Erik Gustafsson -- Human right to water obligations, corporate entities, and accountability mechanisms / Amrita Paul -- A rights-based policy framework for governing municipal water services / Lina Suleiman -- Human right to water in transboundary water regimes /