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Foreword / Leo Heller -- The right to water in a global context : challenges and transformations / Farhana Sultana and Alex Loftus -- Valuing water : rights, resilience, and the UN High-Level Panel on Water / Jeremy Schmidt -- Making space for practical authority : policy formalization and the right to water in Mexico / Katie Meehan -- Turning to traditions : three cultural-religious articulations of fresh waters' value(s) in contemporary governance frameworks / Christiana Zenner -- The right to bring waters into being / Jamie Linton -- The rights to water and food : exploring the synergies / Lyla Mehta and Daniel Langmeier -- Water-security capabilities and the human right to water / Wendy Jepson, Amber Wutich and Leila Harris -- Rights on the edge of the city : realizing of the right to water in informal settlements in Bolivia / Anna Walnycki -- Human right to water and bottled water consumption : governing at the intersection of water justice, rights, and ethics / Raul Pacheco-Vega -- Against the trend : structure and agency in the struggle for public water in Europe / Andreas Bieler -- Remunicipalization and the human right to water : a signifier half full? / David McDonald -- Citizen mobilization for water : the case of Thessaloniki, Greece / Jerry van den Berge, Rutgerd Boelens and Jeroen Vos -- Race, austerity and water in the US : fighting for the human right to water in Detroit and Flint, Michigan / Cristy Clark -- Class, race, space and the "right to sanitation" : the limits of neoliberal toilet technologies in Durban, South Africa / Patrick Bond.

Water plays a pivotal role in economic activity and in human well-being. Because of the prominence of water in production (primarily for irrigation) and in domestic use (drinking, washing, cooking), conflict over water and the effects of gender-influenced decisions about water may have far-reaching consequences on human well-being, economic growth, and social change. At the same time, social conflicts and social change are shaped and mediated, often in unexpected ways, by the natural conditions in which water occurs. The social relations of water are poorly understood. This article introduces a framework for disaggregating conditions of access to water and uses it to examine three pressing questions in Bangladesh. First, extraction of groundwater for irrigation has made many drinking-water hand pumps run dry. Second, increasing use of groundwater for drinking has been associated with the poisoning of at least 20 million people through naturally occurring arsenic in groundwater. Third, the article examines some of the ways access to water has been changed by the rise of shrimp aquaculture for export. This article highlights new directions for the analysis of interactions among water, class, and gender. The existing literature has tended to focus on the implications of gender analysis for government policy, especially development projects and water resources management, and for women's organization. In this article we begin to sketch some questions that arise from a concern to understand the broader context of social change.

The COVID-19 outbreak has expanded across the globe. Most of the countries are launching different measures to stop the transmission of this virus. However, the death toll is steadily rising. Strikingly the rate of coronavirus infection among the young-age population is the highest in SAARC countries as more than 80% population of the SAARC countries are young who constitute the working-age group. The disease transmission also occurs at a slower rate presumably due to diverse lifestyles of different ethnicities, immunity and genetic traits; but not because of the hot and humid weather despite previous assumptions. Since SAARC countries comprise 23.75% of the world population and the largest portion of these people is the young working-class, some immediate measures need to be implemented to save these valuable lives from COVID-19. Till now, there is no specific treatment or vaccine available; hence timely-taken preventive measures are the only hope that can save the people of this region. Here we have demonstrated an altered disease transmission pattern in people of SAARC countries, measures initiated by the governments, causes of failure and further actions to be taken to control disease transmission.

nutrition; agriculture; sustainable development