• Ravindra Kumar

National water law is more developed than international water law. Nevertheless, India lacks an umbrella framework to regulate freshwater in all its dimensions. The existing water law framework in India is characterised by the coexistence of a number of different principles, rules and acts adopted over many decades. These include common law principles and irrigation acts from the colonial period as well as more recent regulation of water quality and the judicial recognition of a human right to water. The lack of an umbrella legislation at the national level has ensured that the different state and central legal interventions and other principles do not necessarily coincide and may in fact be in opposition in certain cases. This paper examines the justiciability of social rights, looking particularly at the Right to Water as part of the all encompassing Right to Life. In India, the Right to water has been protected as a fundamental human right by the Indian Supreme Court as part of the Right to Life guaranteed under Article 21 of the Indian constitution. The right to life has been expanded significantly over the last three decades to include the right to health and the right to a clean environment which can include the right to clean drinking water.

National water law, justiciability, Environment, Constitution, Article 21, India.

"WATER POLLUTION IN INDIA: DIMENSIONS OF JUDICIAL INTERVENTION ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 3, page no.297-300, March-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1803322.pdf

"WATER POLLUTION IN INDIA: DIMENSIONS OF JUDICIAL INTERVENTION ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 3, page no. pp297-300, March-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1803322.pdf