Improving Water Management Based on Human Rights Approaches

The importance of water as a vital element for the humanity puts the Access to water as a right in the shadow of human rights. This right that formed in the light of the rights to life and health and become an independent right provides a new approach to the governance and water management in accordance with its widespread effects. In fact human rights leading to the imposition binding obligations on the states which effect to the water management by creating the requirements to ensure the water rights and underlie the evolution of general principles governing water management that includes negative and positive aspects. The positive aspects in the exercise of the right to water and negative aspect in the protection of this right and Prevention of violation through appropriate management of water. This article seeks to study on water management in the light of human rights in the purpose of creating relationship between these two issues and gets help from human rights approach to the improving the water management and explain its necessity. This study is based on descriptive and analytical methods according to the library and internet data.