Political Security Water Resources and International Security Organizations (NATO, OSCE, CSTO, SCO) in the Amu Darya

Abstract

To Josef Nef, political security means the guarantee of several rights, such as the right to be represented, to participate, and to disagree, but in particular to have a real chance to make effective changes in the laws and regulations of social and political life. Therefore, protecting, respecting and developing the Human Right to Water and Sanitation (HRWS), as in the case of any other human right, not only involves preserving the amount and quality of water resources, but also ensuring the participation of all users (citizens, communities, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), economic sectors, etc.) in the economic and emancipation possibilities involved in the management of water as a resource. The achievement of the HRWS is thus a political challenge and not merely a simple distribution of the resource that enables individuals or groups to participate in the decision-making process freely and unthreatened. In this chapter, the author analyzes the connection between political systems, borders, ethnic groups and water resources, and how they affect the human right to water.