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Thumb on the Scale: Residents' Access to Water Under Privatised Water Service Provision in California /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Thumb on the Scale: Residents' Access to Water Under Privatised Water Service Provision in California // Oxana Wolfson.
Author:	Wolfson, Oxana,
Description:	1 electronic resource (337 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-08, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International86-08B.
Subject:	Government agencies. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=31864499
ISBN:	9798304905329

Thumb on the Scale: Residents' Access to Water Under Privatised Water Service Provision in California /
Wolfson, Oxana,

Thumb on the Scale: Residents' Access to Water Under Privatised Water Service Provision in California /Oxana Wolfson. - 1 electronic resource (337 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-08, Section: B.

As water privatisation in California continues to be favoured by governments as a solution to the looming crisis of water access for millions of residents in that state, privatised water service delivery is having profound impacts on the realisation of UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 in terms of human rights and access to water. Communities are struggling to find ways of raising and addressing these issues under a wide range of water service privatisation modes. This problem necessitates a thorough understanding of the regulatory features impeding residents' protection and contestation under different models of privatisation prevailing in this sector. To this end, the thesis investigates the role of public and private law governing privatised water services in California in safeguarding human rights and access to water, positing California as an influential regulatory setting from which legal scholars in other jurisdictions may draw important insights.Adopting a case study-based methodology to examine law and regulation in context, this thesis analyses how regulation restricts, mitigates, or otherwise addresses the impacts of the privatisation of water services on the attainment of SDG 6 objectives in California through three case studies covering a wide spectrum of private-provider configurations. A close study of each of these cases and their comparison reveal that the adoption of market-oriented regulatory solutions in the water sector in any of the formats represented - all too narrow to accommodate the values of residents' welfare and human rights meaningfully yield or exacerbate imbalances of power between private entities and households, favouring private sector objectives and jeopardising communities' access to water.By advancing a more differentiated understanding of what 'privatisation' entails in regulatory terms in the water sector and elucidating challenges posed by different models of privatisation to the articulation and protection of SDG 6 objectives of improving and safeguarding access to water, this thesis makes an original contribution to more general discussions in the legal literature of regulatory deficiencies in privatised water services. Additionally, this study contributes to the legal literature on the interpretation and realisation of SDG 6 by examining legal constraints posed to the implementation of the goal in a specific setting under water service privatisation. The thesis also adds to debates ongoing in scholarly literatures on regulatim and regulatory theory concerning the role of law and regulation in compounding (or potentially tempering) power imbalances in economic relations. Insights generated by this thesis are potentially generalisable to other market-based jurisdictions with common law systems and their oversight of privatised water services.As privatisation is becoming a more widespread solution to advancing water access, scholarly evaluation of regulatory structures in operation in this context is essential to achieving legal reform to advance the human rights of residents and improve and safeguard access to water.

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ISBN: 9798304905329Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Government agencies.
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Water privatisation

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