International Journal in Management & Social Science
  • Year: 2017
  • Volume: 5
  • Issue: 1

Right to Clean Water and the Supreme Court of India: A Study

  • Author:
  • Rajinder Verma
  • Total Page Count: 5
  • Page Number: 413 to 417

Asstt. Professor, Deptt of Laws, H.P. University, Shimla

Online published on 15 March, 2019.

Abstract

The growing water pollution constitutes biggest threat to public health and ecology. Since independence, our inaction towards water pollution has caused the death of many people due to water borne diseases such as diarrhea, dysentery, hepatitis etc. Various reports on state of India's environment cite the gravity of water pollution including river pollution. In this gloomy scenario, the present paper focused on the evolution of specific fundamental right to clean water.