Mining,water and human rights: making the connection |
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| Authors: | Deanna Kemp Carol J Bond Daniel M Franks Claire Cote |
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| Institution: | 1. Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, The University of Queensland, Queensland 4072, Australia;2. Sustainable Minerals Institute, The University of Queensland, Australia;3. Centre for Water in the Minerals Industry, The University of Queensland, Australia;1. Centre for Water in the Minerals Industry, Sustainable Minerals Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia;2. Tech Mahindra, Perth, Western Australia 6000, Australia;3. Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Canberra, Australia;1. Environmental Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia;2. CSIRO Mineral Resources, Clayton, Victoria, Australia;3. VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd, Espoo, Finland;1. Forest and Nature Conservation Policy Group, Wageningen University, The Netherlands;1. CSIRO, Waite Campus, SA 5064, Australia;2. School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, Burwood, Victoria 3125, Australia;3. College of Information Sciences and Technology, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, PR China;4. School of Mathematics and Computer Science, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, Anhui 241003, China;5. CSIRO, Black Mountain, ACT 2601, Australia;6. Beijing Laboratory of Water Resource Security, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048, China |
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| Abstract: | The minerals industry interacts with water in many different ways that can affect the environment and communities. In the context of emerging debates about the status of access to water as a distinct human right and the mining industry’s engagement with human rights discourses, this article highlights points of disconnection between technical, scientific and engineering-based approaches to water management on the one hand and human rights perspectives on the other. We argue that greater understanding and emphasis on the intersecting nature of water and human rights is important from a sustainable development perspective. Better connections will increase the likelihood that mining companies will respect human rights, avoid or mitigate adverse social and environmental risks that occur through their interaction with water and collaboratively identify water-related development opportunities. Discursive, organisational, political and conceptual barriers of these various disconnects are considered and strategies for strengthening points of connection provided. |
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