The Right to Water, Law and Municipal Practice: Case Studies from India

Recognition of the right to water in Indian courts has had little impact on the ground. This paper explores the seeming disjuncture between what happens in the court and the everyday reality of living with a less-than-perfect claim on city water services in India’s urban slums. The paper seeks to understand and contextualise a court ruling which looks like it declares a right to water for people in urban slums, but in effect gives them little beyond what they already had. The paper also looks at the ‘everyday reality’ of municipal administration and the provision of drinking water in slums through in-house connections and community taps. In both case studies, the author looks to understand how the practice relates to frameworks of law and policy that shape the rationality and scope of action of the actors concerned, both judges and municipal officials. She found that the issue of land was the main stumbling block in both places, but it was conceptualized a little differently in each situation. These case studies underscore the critical importance of making the local interface between poor people and the state more empowering in order for rights to become local and meaningful.

Decision on land development conditions for a photovoltaic system – a genuine investment problem?

The possibility of basing an investment on a decision on land development conditions has many legal and economic advantages. The decision confirms a specific condition related to the possibility of land development, enables the implementation of subsequent stages of the investment process, and finally, the implementation of the investment. Currently, only special regulations, e.g. in water law, protection of monuments, and protection of agricultural and forest land, constitute a legal barrier to the location of photovoltaic investments. Other restrictions are technical limitations, for example, the possibility of connecting to the power grid. The photovoltaic investments market in Poland is constantly growing.

CHINA'S WATER LAW: FEATURES OF FORMATION AND FUNCTIONING

The system of water law in China is built differently than in many countries of the world. It emerged from a planned economic system, a traditional society in which agriculture was the majority, and a rapid stage of industrialization and urbanization. It has its own characteristics. Proceeding from the premise of compliance with the fundamental system of the socialist market economy, the main characteristics of the reform and construction of the water law system in China are: compliance with the system of state ownership of state and collective water resources, and the introduction of a management system based on government leadership, full control, priority and regional coordination. Through gradual reforms, such as pilot projects, the marketization process will be accelerated and the market mechanism will be used to optimize the allocation of water resources. The purpose of the work. By analyzing the water legislation of China, to study the characteristics, the direction of the reform of water law and the ways of building the water law system of China. Methods. Empirical research methods, search and analysis of information from mass media, analysis and comparison of data, comparison and generalization were used in the work. Results. Through the study of the water law system in China, it was possible to identify the main direction of water law reform, which corresponds to the general trend of water law reform in the world, which is that the government assumes a leading role and fully uses the role of the market economy in optimizing the allocation of resources.