As the global population continues to grow and water demands correspondingly mount in a rapidly changing climate scenario, water, the life-sustaining elixir, may have the dubious distinction of being the most abused natural resource. At the international level, even though more than two decades have passed since the human right to water was recognized, countries persist with their callous attitude towards managing water, leading to avoidable water-related deaths and underdevelopment. Nevertheless, the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals and SDG 6 occupying centrality in the SDG matrix and the close interface that human rights share with the SDGs offers renewed hope that there can be a reversal in the situation, provided countries adopt earnest measures to implement the human right to water, one such being realizing this right at their respective national levels. This chapter highlights these aspects in India’s efforts to recognize and realize the human right to water. It identifies that while the judiciary has provided a normative foundation for the right, efforts by the legislature and the water bureaucracy have not succeeded in implementing this right. Consequently, a vast majority of the people are yet to have meaningful access. It posits the argument that if access is to be real, then India must statutorily recognize the human right to water. Such a course will ensure the right has a more universal appeal and application.