“…Further, she argues that the HRW is (potentially) compatible with privatization schemes—making it fundamentally flawed to deal with water challenges related to ongoing processes of neoliberalization (more below). Bakker's critique also shares a more general concern with the individualistic, Western, state‐centric, anthropocentric, and universalistic bases of “rights talk” (see also Parmar 2008; Redgwell 1996), leading to a questioning of the appropriateness of this approach to deal with critical ecological challenges or issues faced by marginalized, indigenous, and non‐Western populations. As Parmar concludes, drawing from the case of resistance to a Coca‐Cola plant in southern India, mainstream discussions related to the right to water fail to contest exclusions and limitations of the dominant human rights discourse, and as such are subject to being co‐opted by the very forces they seek to challenge 4 .…”