Right to water and sanitation: moving towards a constitutional guarantee
Right to Water and Sanitation falls under the economic and social Rights discourse. Broadly coming under a liberal interpretation of Article 21, Right to Life, the first such struggle was the 1981 Bombay Street Dwellers struggle against evictions, through the now famous Public Interest Litigation route. The crisis of safe and affordable drinking water, water requirement for livelihoods and animal husbandry and infrastructure for rural and urban sanitation