Water Justice: Water as a Human Right in Israel

Global Issue Paper No. 15

By Tamar Keinan, Friends of the Earth Middle East, Israel

Editor: Gidon Bromberg, Friends of the Earth Middle East
Series’ coordinator: Simone Klawitter, policy advisor

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Objective
This report presents a wide overview of the Israeli water economy, aiming to examine the strengths and weaknesses of water management in Israel from a sustainability and human rights perspective. It is one of a series of Middle East reports commissioned by the Heinrich Böll Foundation that aim to examine the level of implementation of the right to water as pronounced by the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

At the request of the Heinrich Böll Foundation this report focuses solely on the state of Israel according to 1967 borders as recognized by international law. While mention is made of the trans-boundary nature of Middle East water resources and the Middle East conflict as it pertains to water resource issues, the objective of this report is to focus on the concept of water as a human right for the citizens of the state of Israel.